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Favourite Pink Floyd …

I have always been a huge Pink Floyd fan. Despite what my Spotify stats tell (which I listen to Nick Cave more), Pink Floyd have always had a special place in my music and life. They are the band that I wouldn’t be able to classify, or rate, nor rank. They are outside every category. They stay …

Flying is terrible

I never loved flying. I tolerated it in the beginning. Then grew fond of it. Until it became the worst possible way of transportation there is. Now I am considering renouncing flying altogether.

Sounded a bit dramatic, didn’t it? Oh well, imagine how strong is my frustration with flying then. …

Bali

Bali. Just the word evokes lush forests, rice terraces, yoga, coffee houses, dawn treks, and digital nomading. I didn’t particularly go for any of those but would be unfair to assert that I wasn’t captivated a bit by each. I found them all, but wasn’t fully satisfied by any.

Rewind …

On Pelé

The King and the God are gone.

Pelé was a totem. And a scary one at that. For a kid growing up in Naples during the 80s, Pelé was not a tangible experience but a myth already. Somebody who we would all compare to, as the archetype of the great footballer from South America.

He was a scary figure. …

Most Meetings Are Useless

I rarely had a useful meeting. I can count on the fingers of one hand the truly important, making-things-go-forward meetings I had in the last year. And yet, I regularly have to endure them. Daily.

As a Technical Writer, you’d expect meetings to be worthwhile sources of info and insight. And …

Pulse 15 update after one …

I wrote about the Pulse 15 in my previous review. Usually I don’t review what I buy, neither here nor elsewhere, but I made an exception for this laptop as it was from a small company and geared towards Linux users. Both things I care a lot about when purchasing technology. If you are …