21/paleo influences.

Last friday I’ve been facilitating a workshop somewhere down in the middle of nowhere. One of the participants came to my attention while interacting with ease during the reception. He was runningwise dressed, wearing trail shoes, trekking pants a tech-like sweater. More, he had this long…

12/sale as a drama.

Last night I had the opportunity to attend to a ‘selling night’, the model a SME uses to outreach prospects possibly interested in buying a new bedding system, that is to say a mattress plus its slats. They ask associations (in this case: a boy scout one) to raise some twenty or so couples…

13/select the flow.

It’s all a matter of training. In photography, to learn to shoot good pics you need to just do it again and again. This must not be confused with the idea of having a purpose, or a project in mind. Practice will show you the path to succeed in what you’re doing. In cooking as well, when it…

20/performing publics.

Being watched is one of the most common fantasies. To cross the boundary between watching and being watched implies the idea of role: who’s who? On one side, it has never to be taken for granted. On the other: exchanging perspectives helps to grow.

19/red swans.

Few days ago a weird red rain fell upon the whole country. They said it was a Sahara desert storm, for strange reason rising up to cover Southern Europe. Don’t know how often it may happen or have happened in history, but intuitively it sounds like the typical black swan, «rara avis in terris nigroque…

11/the price of hybrids.

My pilgrimage in rural badlands goes on. I find myself driving in the open nothingness of northern Italy going from a meeting to the other, and lately I — apparently with no reason — started shutting down the radio. More time to think without having to jump from a task to the other…

14/triadic constraints.

Saturday I was invited to give a speech at a conference. Topic was: mountain and its future. We were in a not-so-remote, yet quite ‘inner’ area, and I was the last — just before a member of the national parliament. Very few of the keynote speakers pointed what’s for me a real core in…

4/magma

I have two main concerns, these days. First: quitting almost everything and reshaping myself into a brand new human. Second: learning german, don’t ask me why.

Starting from the latter, I went back to Duolingo, whose interface and engagement logic is amazingly effective in forcing you to…

7/switching will.

Got thru a new torture run, as I ironically stated “to discover wether or not I do have limits, as they say”. Strange mental and physical illness: you don’t stop cursing the day you signed up for half the duration of the down-and-uphill 35 km, then when it’s over you’re thinking to the next. I…