27/rebuilding the human.

Meaning pops out from recombination of elements. Life is like a floor full of scattered Lego bricks: they can hurt you if you don’t pay attention to — say — the small ambulance light, or to the minifigure head, but they can heal you if you strive to find out how they can fit.

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May 7, 2018

Scripta volant.

I’ve never been so deeply reflective as I’ve been lately this last weeks. Somehow, think with today a cycle is over. A very short one indeed, where I’ve experienced this idea of putting on paper confused lesson learned from everyday life. I’ve done it to the extent that now I am not sure it’s…

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Apr 26, 2018

25/grammar intentions.

In the last couple of workshop I have facilitated with different clients, I started turning my discourse into a grammar lesson. After using for the nth time the very ‘untoolish’ tool of elevator pitch template (see an example) to drive a synthesis of what a value proposition can be, I…

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Apr 24, 2018

23/bodily trust.

Passed the whole day telling everyone I met of my idea of experimenting a hardcore diet in may. Call it paleo or whatever you like, idea is to quit carbs for one month eating mostly proteins and veggies. And yes, while saying it to empower my own motivation, trying to explain the inner reasons for…

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Apr 23, 2018

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.

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Apr 23, 2018

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…

alessandro pirani

Apr 18, 2018

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…

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Apr 16, 2018

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…

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Apr 12, 2018

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…

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Apr 12, 2018

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…