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Massimo Curatella

Designer, Facilitator, Systems Thinker

  • One Year Blogging Challenge CompleteNovember 14, 2021

    I wrote and published 365 blog posts, meaning, I’ve been writing for one year, every day.

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  • New Beginnings?November 13, 2021

    The day before completing my 365 daily post writing challenge, I am thinking about my next habit-forming strategy.

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  • The Pleasure of Connecting KnowledgeNovember 12, 2021

    It’s nice to find somebody else treating the topics that you love in a clear and entertaining way.

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  • Lousy transcriptionNovember 11, 2021

    Lorem ipsum, dolorem pansa?

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  • To Clarify Make The System Visible FirstNovember 10, 2021

    Luck is not the wisest choice in sensemaking.

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  • More Reading, Then WritingNovember 9, 2021

    Shall I do “a year of draft writing”?

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  • Explaining the reason for a failure is illuminatingNovember 8, 2021

    A precise, documented and motivated description of the exact work I am not doing.

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  • Spending time with people to learn and getting inspiredNovember 7, 2021

    How do you know what to design if not researching what your users want, need, desire?

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  • How to receive brutally honest feedbackNovember 6, 2021

    And only at the end try to give context, application, and audience.

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  • Write about what interests people you knowNovember 5, 2021

    It becomes essential to have a collection of real people corresponding to the conversations I like to have and would like to develop.

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  • Fighting the blank page with networked notesNovember 4, 2021

    all sounds good. Let’s see what practicing it will look like.

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  • The Metaverse is a jungleNovember 3, 2021

    It’s a fantastic always-changing fluid technological world and we need to be responsible and careful in living it.

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  • Annotating Podcasts and Connecting ContextuallyNovember 2, 2021

    I would call that a partial success. I am looking to improve this knowledge capturing workflow because I like how it started, I don’t like how it ends.

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  • Write for your future, past, and present selfNovember 1, 2021

    Leverage on this multiplicity by identifying your three selves as real persons whom you can talk to.

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  • Learning Expands Our SensesOctober 31, 2021

    How can we keep the curiosity active? Playing a musical instrument for the first time can be an exhilarating experience. Discovering the capability of producing the notes of those songs that we love is an…

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  • Reflecting on voids and missed opportunities (draft)October 30, 2021

    It’s in the behavior: a sequence of actions leading to order or disorder according to different points of view.

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  • Approaching the horizonOctober 29, 2021

    I wrote every single day. What about the rest? What did I learn? What did I build? These are the kind of questions it will interesting to ask myself.

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  • How to decide if to rebuild or adapt a new systemOctober 28, 2021

    In very complicated systems, if you discover that the update is more convenient than the rebuild you might save a lot of time and resources.

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  • Discovering complexity by writingOctober 27, 2021

    Writing facilitates focus and depth in understanding. If you do it with dedication.

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  • Ultimate TestingOctober 26, 2021

    When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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  • How to prepare and run a software demo: promptsOctober 25, 2021

    Presenting a piece of software is a [[presentation]] so anything applicable to the art and craft of presenting can be applied to software as well.

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  • Macro and MicroOctober 24, 2021

    I’ve found two extremes in my reflections: big moments to think about big things and little moments to think about small things.

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  • Relax, don’t do itOctober 23, 2021

    Sometimes you can make no sense. Who cares, anyway?

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  • Challenge Your Ideas In Public to Become More InnovativeOctober 22, 2021

    Being original, innovative means having the courage of letting go of your banality

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  • The Knowledge Creations ProcessOctober 21, 2021

    Can we brand a thinking process? Think about a toy brick, a 2-by-4 piece. It’s standard, created with high precision to respects specific dimensions, shapes and feature. Now think about what you can do with…

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  • Talking With FactsOctober 20, 2021

    t least, you won’t waste further time.

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  • Talking to my future self about my knowledgeOctober 19, 2021

    Why didn’t I start earlier?

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  • Knowing the Pieces Before the AssemblyOctober 18, 2021

    functions and their potential for connection, it could be inefficient or, worst, harmful.

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  • Learning Goals Depend on Our Roles in LifeOctober 17, 2021

    We should accept ambiguity and multiplicity in defining our identity and our roles. They are fluid and in continuous mutation.

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  • Checklists to Pursue Learning GoalsOctober 16, 2021

    These are checklists to make my learning workflow tangible.

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  • Funny CouplesOctober 15, 2021

    They really get along well.

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  • Coherence in Data-GatheringOctober 14, 2021

    Without knowing the rules at the source of that data you can increase its quality by applying the deduction you can make.

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  • Notes on HierarchyOctober 13, 2021

    Hierarchy is a way to organize information in a tree shape. Higher level of depth provide higher detail. A hierarchy requires a design approach.

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  • Observe Trends, Prepare for the FutureOctober 12, 2021

    Sometimes we don’t want to see the future. We have all the signals in front of us, explicit. It would take such a little effort to relate trends and behaviors that we could anticipate what…

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  • Revise For Meaning Then for SyntaxOctober 11, 2021

    After an initial round of revisions, when the writing flows then it’s time to wordsmithing, cherry-picking and finessing.

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  • On Improvisation and RelevanceOctober 10, 2021

    Improvisation requires a lot of work. Relevance, too.

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  • How To Discover Your Beloved Ones’ DesiresOctober 9, 2021

    Ask them. But with a trick.

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  • Accepting ComplimentsOctober 8, 2021

    When somebody gives you compliments or shows their gratitude to you, do not diminish what you have done. Be humble but accept the nice words without feeling obliged to appear less than what the others…

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  • Note-Taking Liberates You from Your MoodsOctober 7, 2021

    Note-taking allows you to separate your current mood from the idea you want to capture.

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  • We Need More Scientific AttitudeOctober 6, 2021

    Of course ,we do.

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  • Contextual Paraphrasing Must Be Done EarlyOctober 5, 2021

    Stop, make an effort to interpret what caught your attention, and rewrite it with your words into notes to add to your archive.

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  • Note-Taking is PersonalOctober 4, 2021

    The value of personal notes is limited unless you are annotating for specific public.

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  • The Power of RereadingOctober 3, 2021

    My greatest challenge is exactly this, going through the boredom of rereading a piece of text while looking for new insights

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  • Deeply Immersive Stolen SleepOctober 2, 2021

    Sleeping when you are not supposed to sleep is like going on a prohibited journey. If you accompany your nap with an immersive audiobook then it’s like living another life. You need a book well…

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  • Free-Flowing Explanation of the Free-Flowing PracticeOctober 1, 2021

    There will be no family member, no dog, no bill, no ugly noise able to get you out of your creative tunnel.

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  • The Bassline BaselineSeptember 30, 2021

    46 days to go. 46 more articles to write. “articles”, what a big word. I’ve received one of the best gifts I have ever had: a bass guitar. I have fingertips at both of my…

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  • Writing ConciselySeptember 29, 2021

    It is a job, a discipline, an art. Never sufficiently appreciated and practiced.

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  • Try To RememberSeptember 28, 2021

    Why the loop got tighter.
    You seemed to forget.
    But the pressure didn’t get higher.

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  • Reviewing Notes While Deep ReadingSeptember 27, 2021

    I enjoy the sensation of a close encounter with other minds, carefully and accurately considering what they have to say.

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  • Finding Questions While ReadingSeptember 26, 2021

    Learning principles and concepts based on experience and rationality while finding new and useful connections.

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  • Un-HoardingSeptember 25, 2021

    When should you do that? Each time you find something useful and you want to archive it. Leave the note better than how you found it.

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  • Deep Reading: Authors and SourcesSeptember 24, 2021

    I started to read a book slowly, accurately and deeply. By going slow I can collect plenty of questions and connections .

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  • Reflecting, Again, On My Daily Writing Habit PracticeSeptember 23, 2021

    I’m carving back my space for private writing. It’s a different need in a different context. I have nothing to demonstrate to anybody.

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  • Hypothetical Backwards RemediationSeptember 22, 2021

    I write daily and I find immense benefits in writing but it is hard and harder.

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  • Morning GoldenSeptember 21, 2021

    Writing in the morning feels more focused and productive. Not directly related to daily blogging but that’s acceptable.

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  • Happy Writing About WritingSeptember 20, 2021

    So this is a meta-post, it’s how I feel about the fact that I wrote, today.

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  • A.I. isn’t as Advanced as I Need It, Yet.September 19, 2021

    Hemingway, give me the will to write.

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  • Curated WritingSeptember 18, 2021
    Today I made an experiment. I am not going to publishing anything I am not going to feel comfortable with. That’s it. The post Curated Writing appeared first on Massimo Curatella.
  • The Daily Pain of WritingSeptember 17, 2021

    The more I keep on writing daily. The more I feel like I don’t want to do it. I have made a commitment. I will write and publish daily on my blog for one year….

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  • Estimation and planningSeptember 16, 2021

    When estimating a change request you need to be careful with the remaining planning

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  • Trust is Expensive and DelicateSeptember 15, 2021

    Working to build trust is a slow and careful process requiring focus and resources, continuously.

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  • The Value of ExperienceSeptember 14, 2021

    The experience I made in a technical field came useful today when I had to explain to a peer how to face a certain context. I realized I had a clear vision about the problem,…

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  • Boutique, BarriqueSeptember 13, 2021
    La ferita è dolorante, La cura meticolosa, Il fuoco latente, Ma proprio non è cosa. La delusione è cocente, L’ardito riposa. La trama lucente Nell’immaginazione, sontuosa. The post Boutique, Barrique appeared fi…
  • Quiet Nights and Quiet DreamsSeptember 12, 2021

    Today I enjoy greater tranquility but I observe dormant dreams and storms. It is true that while you imagine a different life, life, the real one, happens to you. I find it hard to let…

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  • Strong Feelings, Strong MemoriesSeptember 11, 2021

    The power of trauma engraves events deeply in your memory. I can clearly see what’s around me, what my friend is saying on the phone and the images passing through an old TV set broadcasting…

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  • Free-Flowing Reflections on my Writing PracticeSeptember 10, 2021

    What I like and what I don’t, about my daily writing practice.

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  • Dissatisfaction as a Motivation to ChangeSeptember 9, 2021

    Feeling like you should be doing different things, or getting different results  can be a good force for change.

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  • Strategy and PlanningSeptember 8, 2021

    Keeping the right balance between abstract, speculative thought and practical, executive planning requires careful dedication and self-awareness.

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  • Learning PainsSeptember 7, 2021

    And it is so good.

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  • Creating Choice by Managing your Personal KnowledgeSeptember 6, 2021

    To create choices I need information and the capability of making connections between them. PKM helps.

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  • Trees of the past and futureSeptember 5, 2021

    At every moment of my life I’m at the intersection of two trees, one made of all of the events occurred and the decisions I made which brought me to today and the other made…

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  • Beauty is in How it WorksSeptember 4, 2021

    a beautifully designed object is something that works well, for the purpose it has been created for.

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  • You Can’t Get Always What You WantSeptember 3, 2021

    How you react to adversities defines you character. You have to confront yourself first with your reaction to the environment and that is where your real self shows up. Demonstrating the capability but also the…

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  • To Write You Need To Be SelfishSeptember 2, 2021

    It doesn’t matter where you are now and what you are doing. The people surrounding you or the next important task. If you committed to write, daily, you have to steal time and refuse to…

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  • Guest Post: On PatienceSeptember 1, 2021

    If you have more patience you can calm your mind and do things easier.

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  • I did a monthly retrospectiveAugust 31, 2021
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  • Showing The Design Process vs The Final ProductAugust 30, 2021

    Present the final product to persuade and impress. Show the design process to build trust and add depth.

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  • It’s nice doing nothingAugust 29, 2021

    There’s only this little problem of time.

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  • Plan For HappinessAugust 28, 2021

    Keep track of places, people, tastes, happenings, events that left a positive mark on your memories and store them safely.

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  • Connect Simple Ideas To Create Elaborate ThoughtsAugust 27, 2021

    The real creativity is in composing those ideas into a bigger one. Not in having brilliant, big and exhaustive treatments of ideas, impromptu, of the day

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  • Change Your MindAugust 26, 2021

    Einstein had to admit he was wrong about the Universe being static when a lot of studies emerged about stars running away from each other. Regardless of our geniality we need continuous confrontation with others…

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  • Co-Designing Solutions with DevelopersAugust 25, 2021

    Developers, the product builders must be always part of the ongoing product design activity. Otherwise co-design with them after initial specs are done.

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  • No-DayAugust 24, 2021

    No.

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  • The Infinite Journeys of KnowledgeAugust 23, 2021

    Until we won’t find a way to implant knowledge, we need to start from scratch for every human being. While this opens to evolution and progress it has also an enormous cost and a great…

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  • Answering “I Don’t Know” when you are suppose to knowAugust 22, 2021

    When I can do that I feel satisfied as a member of a team growing towards their maturity and independence, also thanks to my contribution.

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  • Half Life?August 21, 2021
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  • Speculation on the Future of Personal Knowledge ManagementAugust 20, 2021

    It’s just a matter of time to reach a sophistication level where the meaningful correlated knowledge is presented to me, while I am writing.

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  • Speculative Artistic SignatureAugust 19, 2021

    What is my signature? How would you recognize something I’ve created? What is my top-down, intention, desire, in my signature?

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  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Design and Business ConsultancyAugust 18, 2021

    partial list of the topics I’ve touched while doing a design consultancy.

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  • Spend Your Abundance With ConsiderationAugust 17, 2021

    Technology is useless if I am not able to be disciplined. I am going faster, where to? To do what?

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  • Visualize the system to better manageAugust 16, 2021

    The phases of inventory and mapping are crucial to make a system visible. Any serious management and leadership effort as well as a design intervention should always rely on a careful and accurate system mapping….

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  • Stock resources when not neededAugust 15, 2021
    And use them during time of poverty. But how much to stock? What’s the right cost today for richness I will have on an unknown Future? The post Stock resources when not needed appeared first on Massimo Curatella.
  • Testing Story PostsAugust 14, 2021

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  • The car remote’s buttonAugust 14, 2021

    I discovered after one year that by long pressing the car uocking button on the remote I can close the car windows as well. I had no idea about it and not being enough curious…

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  • Adding Review and Revision to your Creative ProcessAugust 13, 2021

    In your deliberate practice of daily creative habit building you cannot skip the review and revision phases. Exercising your kick 10’000 times without feedback and correction would have a pale comparison against a complete feedback…

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  • Plan Ahead or FailAugust 12, 2021

    When time is running out and you didn’t take advantage of it’s more than risky. You are risking more of no making it. You have already failed. You have failed in using that time smartly….

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  • Where There Is Internet There Is HomeAugust 11, 2021
    I felt more comfortable hundreds of km away from home with a fast connection rather than at home with poor or no connection. This is scary. Where is resiliency? The post Where There Is Internet There Is Home appeared first on Massimo Curatel…
  • Precision of LanguageAugust 10, 2021

    Asking clarifying questions is a skill, to be used carefully.

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  • Systematic, iterative, incremental experimentation as a self-growth strategyAugust 9, 2021

    A healthy attitude towards experimenting, evaluating, and reflecting on the outcome of our trials is an effective push to self-growth.

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  • Small Steps Towards Increased Future-Proofing of your WritingAugust 8, 2021

    By being more self-empathetic you can try to understand better how to create more engaging content for others.

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