- Morning Golden
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 Writing
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.
Hemingway, give me the will to write.
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- Curated WritingToday 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 Writing
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 planning
When estimating a change request you need to be careful with the remaining planning
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- Trust is Expensive and Delicate
Working to build trust is a slow and careful process requiring focus and resources, continuously.
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- The Value of Experience
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, BarriqueLa 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 Dreams
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 Memories
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 Practice
What I like and what I don’t, about my daily writing practice.
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- Dissatisfaction as a Motivation to Change
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 Planning
Keeping the right balance between abstract, speculative thought and practical, executive planning requires careful dedication and self-awareness.
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- Learning Pains
And it is so good.
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- Creating Choice by Managing your Personal Knowledge
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 future
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 Works
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 Want
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 Selfish
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 Patience
If you have more patience you can calm your mind and do things easier.
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- Showing The Design Process vs The Final Product
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 nothing
There’s only this little problem of time.
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- Plan For Happiness
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 Thoughts
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 Mind
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 Developers
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-Day
No.
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- The Infinite Journeys of Knowledge
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 know
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?I wish. The post Half Life? appeared first on Massimo Curatella.
- Speculation on the Future of Personal Knowledge Management
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 Signature
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 Consultancy
partial list of the topics I’ve touched while doing a design consultancy.
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- Spend Your Abundance With Consideration
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 manage
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 neededAnd 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 Posts
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- The car remote’s button
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 Process
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 Fail
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 HomeI 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 Language
Asking clarifying questions is a skill, to be used carefully.
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- Systematic, iterative, incremental experimentation as a self-growth strategy
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 Writing
By being more self-empathetic you can try to understand better how to create more engaging content for others.
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- Technological Hedonistic Adaptation
The availability of high-speed Internet connection shouldn’t affect my will and attitude to write my daily article. Pen and paper should be enough. But when I load my favorite text editor online, and I have…
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- Working On The Move: Far but Close.
A virtual space to meet online becomes home when you are traveling.
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- Minus 100
I still miss 100 daily posts to achieve my one year of daily publishing challenge.
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- Compounding Perplexity
I will write and publish one article every day for 365 days in a row, and then? Then what? What will be the value of reading, for instance, an article like this?
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- Old Tools and New Tools
Limit yourself intentionally to appreciate the value of your old dear tools and acquire or upgrade your old tools to get a creativity boost.
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- From Goals To Systems
We should change our personal development systems from pursuing goals to more reflective behaviors about developing our potential.
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- Alone and unproductive
What if we wrote our intentions, ready to be read and executed when the actual context would present?
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- Indirect delayed perception
I lay down on the bench, belly up. The sky is blue and the high leaves are gently dancing. I perceive a presence without looking. The small fountain at the center of the natural square,…
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- Holiday is a Place Of The Mind
I wish I could evoke again those incredible feelings of happiness and joy of being on holiday.
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- Create Opportunities
You don’t necessarily need big occasions, big names, or extremely ambitious contexts, you can create opportunities every time with everybody, everywhere.
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- (Un)willing
But today, my dear opposite me, I won.
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- Living in an Insensitive World
How to live with the knowledge of the evils of the world without being corrupted by them?
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- Go Slow To Go Fast
If you want to design and develop fast, prepare the components you need going through a careful and dedicated working session. Do not rush it.
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- Deceiving Habits
He always felt he was meant to be special. It’s a cultural problem when your family treat you ash you are not a common human being. He liked to play with other children, like everybody…
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- Drive Away to Refresh Your Mind
Changing place helps changing perspective. Although we always can bring our digital world with us when you are on the move you are forced to be more creative. Finding the right route, the right destination…
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- Value Recognition Improves Your Relationships
Take some dedicated time to recognize the good done by somebody else and you’ll live better.
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- Incremental, Iterative, Collaborative Book Reading and Note-taking
I adore this format, I want to read book in his way in the future. It’s fun, engaging, active and It makes me learn, connect and remember more.
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- Backup is Sending Objects To The Future
You need to state a clear intention in your saving and take care of its accessibility when and if needed.
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- Not Comfortable But Not Quitting
I wish I could have much more codesign and cocreation sessions like this, in the future.
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- All Life Visible
Imagine seeing lives as stories already told. How would you change your behavior? What would you do?
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- Consuming vs. Creating
We need to be more critical in our approach to consuming what surrounds us and move to a different mindset, the one of being creators rather than consumers.
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- Use The Dynamics Force
When planning in uncertainty a possibility is to specify as little as possible and let the forces on the systems to do their job. When you are aware of the problem’s context and you know…
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- Abstract and Specific Speculations
Everything could be wrong, but time and resources are not wasted because you better grasp the subject and its context.
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- Storytelling to face uncertainty and complexity
It’s a way to work, productively and provocatively, without knowing exactly what the work is that you have to do.
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- Day by Day
Oh, I need to write. So I am not hiding behind a finger. I am just living this daily challenge as it comes.
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- What Can We Learn About The Future?
The word is about, there’s something evolving,Whatever may come, the world keeps revolving…They say the next big thing is here,That the revolution’s near,But to me it seems quite clearThat’s it’s all just a little bit…
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- Futuring: Scoping
Scoping starts with a question, from an individual, a team, or an organization, framing and setting boundaries
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- What’s Futuring?
Thinking about the future is different for each of us because every person has a different view of the future. “Futuring” is the process of exploring possible futures. It’s a way to gather information and…
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- Immune
Becoming immune doesn’t mean avoiding or rejecting alien things. It’s the opposite, it means being completely immersed in them and developing an immune response. For those things we cannot avoid, reject or prevent to be…
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- Careful, Accurate and Useless Archives.
While trying to not get asleep I am writing whatever comes to my mind. Outside is hot, inside is fresh and nice. The bed is comfortable. I just need to remain focused. If I enjoy…
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- Cheap Comfort
I am writing this document on my mobile phone using an external keyboard. It’s quite comfortable, I am on my couch, the phone is inclined on a holder and I am well seated on my…
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- Live Or Die With Doubt
Better face your doubts as soon as possible, as frequently as possible. Everything is worth a doubt. Learn to sail and navigate with the winds.
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- It’s Easy To Break A Habit
Well, here I am, alone, still writing, and it’s day 233.
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- At The Last Moment
I’ve just turned 18. I am an adult now. I am reliable and trustworthy. I can park Dad’s new car.
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- The Cost of Relocating Hoarded Stuff
When we think about relocating we’re forced to inventory our lives. We evaluate each object in our possession for utility. If we love to buy books and less to read them we would doubt about…
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- Trust is when I’m sure about you
It’s when I can leave you alone, doing your work undisturbed, knowing you will use the best of your knowledge and skills to pursue our common goal. It’s when you are aware of how the…
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- Timeliness, how to be on time.
So, a nice game, is the one of time-labeling people according to how late they usually are.
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- Vane Celebrations
I miss vane but intense celebrations.
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- Safety is Needed to Get Clarity
It requires a lot of time to work together, know each other, and have experience together: good and bad.
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- Time and Space Never Meet
The asymmetry between time and space follows an inverse gradient.
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- Still writing, still for me
I like the idea of the constant creative flow but the curatorship of Curatella is still missing
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- Stupid Lies
Dishonesty can only harm everybody, but talking about your dishonesty makes you look stupid.
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- stOLEN mOMENTS
iT hAppens.
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- When Presenting Designs, Don’t take anything for granted
Reserve the needed time to fully document all parts and interactions.
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- Time To Take Smarter Notes
After having completed the third reading of the book ‘How To Take Smart notes I am challenging myself to start taking smarter notes.
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- Reflections on Habitual Group Creativity
I’ve created CREAZEE to find external incentives in maintaining my daily writing habit. How can I improve it?
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- Make The System Visible
A design principle to understand how a system works and how making specific choices generates scenarios and consequences.
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- Writing Every Day Without a Plan Can Be Boring
I can only look forward, farther, and plan, in advance, to develop the questions I am raising when improvising like this. It would be enough to read what I wrote so far.
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- For whom are you writing for?
There are different audiences for your writing. Your present self trying to understand something new. Your future self to whom you want to transfer the knowledge you acquired today. Your future self needing to combine…
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- The First Iteration of My First Note.
Here is where I think, I am not just transcribing my thoughts, these are my thoughts.
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- Making Permanent Notes
Permanent notes are a space to think, learn and ideate. There are perspectives in opening your brain to collective intelligence.
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- Personal Thought Experiments Are Powerful Imagination Development Tools.
The value of repeating the effort of imagining a specific scenario could help to develop your imagination skills
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- Another Person
I’m a problem solver. I’m especially fond of impossible problems. I’m the impossible problems solver, the Impossible problems solver. This is the mythical man I want to be.
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