I grew up in Italy. This one word changed how I negotiate, lead, and live.
I have lived in forty countries. I have sat in boardrooms from Beirut to Boulder, coached executives on five continents, and watched deals close and collapse across cultures I spent years learning to read. And the single most useful thing I carry from my years growing...
The Accidental Drink That Explains Why Italy Will Always Be Competitive
In 1968, a barista at Bar Basso in Milan reached for the gin and grabbed Prosecco by error. He made the drink, served it, and called it sbagliato. Wrong. The client drank it. Came back for another asking un altro giro (another round). The mistake never left the menu,...
Offline Is the New Luxury
The Analog Is Coming Back in a Big Way — And Why Italy Saw It Coming First Let me tell you something Italy put in my bones long before I could understand it. The most powerful thing you can give to another person is your full attention. Not your calendar. Not your...
The Italian Advantage: Why Human Connection Trumps Data in a Distracted World
Every business event I’ve attended in the past two years follows the same tired script. Someone puts up a slide about AI. Someone else start talking about data pipelines. Everybody claps. Nobody says what they are really thinking: we’ve built powerful machines and...
When Billions Became Trillions
Ten years ago, technology corporations spoke a common language: unicorns and billion-dollar valuations. Reaching a billion-dollar valuation was an impressive milestone. Entrepreneurs and VC alike talked about 10X growth and when you joined the Unicorn club, you were...
The End of the Internet (As a Human Space)
Since its launch, the Internet has been a place where people talked to people. Platforms like Reddit captured that early promise particularly well. Long before creator economies and algorithmic feeds dominated attention, Reddit worked because people shared unfiltered...
Starve the Problem: The Power Move Ambitious People Forget
As the saying goes, “The best way to end something is to starve it,” a line shared by creators like Llewelyn Adams and Nutan Poonia. Most people do the opposite. They over react, argue, defend themselves, and pour more energy into the very thing that is draining them....
Why AI Still Needs Human Intelligence
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini or another chatbot a question and you'll get an answer that sounds convincing, balanced, and complete. Ask it the same question three or four times and you might get different answers, each one delivered immediately with strong conviction. This is...
Italy’s Giant Takes Flight: Building the World’s Largest Plane
In the age of miniaturization and microchips, Italy has decided to go big, very big. The country’s aerospace industry is helping build what will soon become the largest aircraft ever constructed, a machine so vast it could carry entire wind turbine blades inside its...
Why Human Connection Is Becoming the Most Valuable Currency in the AI Era
AI is going to be big as it gets. It is already huge. Let’s start there. It’s not a question of if, it’s already transforming how we write, design, invest, code, sell, and even flirt. It’s not the enemy; it’s oxygen for the next economy. As Palantir CEO Alex Karp...