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Luigi
I enjoy sharing stories I have read, notes I have taken, or ideas I have logged. Personal productivity, team growth, books, and the Internet are some of the topics I write about.
Latest Posts
A dear friend of mine is no longer working. She was laid off last May 2025 and hasn’t been able to find a new job for a year. A whole year without work. She was a copywriter. Today, her job is done by an LLM. Bad, but sufficient for the...
This is an archived version of my Now page. I haven’t updated this page in quite a while. A lot has changed since then, like the company I worked for, or the fact that I attempted a public challenge but without success. I finally...
I read Kevin Wammer’s latest post with interest: he switched to Android a few months ago with a Pixel 10 and talks about all the apps he’s installed – replacing some he used on iOS – and how he’s using them in his new ecosystem. I envy...
I haven’t lost any weight—I’ll say that right off the bat. Or rather, I’ve lost just under 1 kg (~2.20 lbs). This public commitment I made to myself didn’t go as I’d hoped. I kept up with my swimming sessions, the occasional brisk walk...
I left the company where I had been working for the past (almost) year. There are various reasons for this, but they all boil down to two main issues. The first is related to my previous experience. Since I am still involved with my...
I’m back to traveling for work. My old project and my new job will require me to travel more often, much like I did in recent years, when four out of every 14 days I spent 800 km away from home. Over the past few weeks, I’ve taken trains...
I need to replace my work Mac within a few weeks. 1 My work laptop is synced with my personal one for everything that involves iCloud. I have pretty much the same apps, and I use Homebrew for everything I can. So, with the switch coming...
AI has recently been used on this blog just to improve the graphic design: I’ve asked for help on several occasions to fine-tune aesthetic details that would otherwise have taken me forever. But never when it comes to the content. And...
I had a PDF in English, so I asked Claude Code to translate the text into Italian and convert it to EPUB. Done – it works and reads well. It took me less than 5 minutes. Things that, I don’t know, might not even have occurred to me to do...
I won’t go into the reasons why you should use a password manager. I’m assuming that if you’re reading this blog, you’re nerdy enough to already have one. Right? Anyway, I’ve used plenty of password managers over the years. I’ve used...
If you have a blog and you’re not making any money off it, for crying out loud, just put your full post in the RSS feed – let us read it without having to use some gizmo tool to view it in its entirety. We’ll check out your website...
It’s impressive how writing a blog and feeling responsible for your readers – no matter how little you know them – can make our brains stick to promises we’d normally break without a second thought. Kev Quirk wrote about this recently,...
Maybe, for the first time in my life, after trying dozens of them and reselling them or sending them back because they hurt or bothered me behind the ears due to the temples of my glasses, maybe I’ve found the over-ear headphones that,...
Even the most foolish entrepreneur today thinks he can replace consultants, technicians, lawyers, and accountants with a credit card and a subscription costing just twenty dollars a month. I wrote a few lines on my Italian blog about why...
In February, my gratitude subscription was expressed with a donation ($10) to Johan Sanneblad, lead developer of Notebook Navigator. Notebook Navigator is an excellent plugin from Obsidian that made me fall in love with Obsidian all over...