The Official Bullshit Meter: Unmasking Corporate Speak
A free tool to measure how much fluff is in your writing. It analyses buzzwords, waffle, and emptiness for brutally honest communication.
Are You Evil Enough? Put Yourself to the Test
20 questions from the blog, 30 seconds each, one right answer. Pass the test, earn the Evil Lunch™. Fail, and there's only shame.
Product-Market Fit vs. Virality: AI Agents as a Paradigm
Real product-market fit isn't measured in views but in market longevity. Why AI dev agents found their PMF while most AI products are just AI-washing.
Culture, Mindset, and the Courage Not to Play Small
Born in Sicily, working like a German: how different cultures teach opposite approaches to vision, ambition, and execution.
The Creative CRM: Teaching Tomorrow
First teaching cycle at IED: turning years of field experience into something teachable, and opening doors for the next generation.
Golf and the Lesson of Patience
I'm obsessed with digital and AI, but golf keeps reminding me of a deeper truth: one perfect shot means nothing. Only what's in front of me right now counts.
Organizations Are Algorithms: Why AI Should Actually Scare You
Still think companies are made of people, roles, and org charts? Hate to break it to you — every organization is already a system of algorithms. AI is just making it obvious.
Launching the Malvagio Chat: Your Unfiltered Virtual Alter Ego
The internet was already unbearable. Now there's a digital version of me that never sleeps, never tires, and has zero interest in protecting your fragile self-esteem.
AI Is Boosting Productivity — and Walls of Meaningless Text
How AI lets incompetent executives hide their mediocrity behind endless, empty emails. The problem isn't ChatGPT. It's the people using it without a single thought.
OpenAI Toward IPO: When the Web's Cognitive Layer Goes Public
OpenAI is quietly preparing an IPO as early as this weekend. What happens to the AI market when the numbers finally have to be real?
In Five Years, Microsoft Could Become Irrelevant — Thanks to Linux and AI
The biggest tech paradigm shift in thirty years is underway. Stick with pre-AI Windows out of laziness and you deserve what's coming. AI won't be a feature. It'll be the computer.
Breaking: Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic — The AI War Just Leveled Up
Karpathy leaving for Anthropic isn't just news. It's a signal. Here's why this move could reshape the entire AI industry.
Dagorà Innovation Hub: AI Agents and the Future of Customer Experience
Reflections from a day in Lugano on AI, data, and the role of intelligent agents in the new commerce landscape.
From Chatbots to Agents: The Paradigm Shift Nobody Has Actually Understood
How LLMs evolved from chatbots to autonomous agents — and why security just became the most critical problem in the room.
Tokenmaxxing: The Corporate Theatre of AI
Call me cynical, but I'm starting to think most companies don't actually want to use AI well. They just want to say they do.
The Corporate Bullshitters
What's the difference between a liar and a bullshitter? The liar at least knows the truth. The bullshitter doesn't even have that — which makes them perfect for modern corporate life.
Local AI. Let's Bring the Compute Power Home
We're normalising the absurdity of sending personal data and company documents to remote servers for tasks we could run locally. Time to rethink AI strategy.
Shall We Jump on a Call? The Most Expensive Phrase in Any Company
The meeting as default answer: it destroys productivity, shatters focus, and turns time into a cost nobody ever bothers to calculate.
AI Adoption: The Gap Between Tools and Actual Learning
Everyone talks about AI adoption, but almost no company is actually learning. ChatGPT and Copilot are individual tools. Organizational learning is something else entirely.
Netcomm: The Collective Pantomime of Italian Digital
Every year at Netcomm everyone pretends to understand. AI-driven, Omnichannel, Customer Journey. The reality? Terrible coffee and LinkedIn selfies.
Output vs Outcome: The Performative Productivity Disease
Too many companies confuse output with outcome. Packed calendars, endless meetings, little value created. The most widespread organisational illness.
Being Hated by Incompetents Is the Price You Pay
Not every criticism deserves your attention. Learn to tell apart those who challenge you to make you better from those who just can't help themselves.
Fear as a Weapon: Whoever Controls the Narrative Controls AI
OpenAI and Anthropic want you scared. Mystery creates power. But AI isn't conscious, isn't omniscient — it's a market control strategy.
Your Systems Are Making Decisions on Bad Data. Every Single Day.
Autonomous AI agents collapse on contradictory data. A Google DeepMind paper on paraconsistent logic offers a real fix.
In the Workplace You Don't Sell Products, You Sell Narratives
You're not paid for what you do, but for how it's perceived. The narratives you sell: clarity, support, results, calm, growth.
Microsoft vs OpenAI: The Smartest or Dumbest Strategic Move of the Decade?
Microsoft lets OpenAI use AWS and Google Cloud infrastructure. Brilliant strategy or the biggest self-inflicted wound of the decade?
Pigeon Shooting: When Sterile Criticism Becomes a Defense Tactic
Killing ideas in their infancy isn't contributing — it's defending the status quo. A provocation on those who destroy out of fear of change.
More Metrics, Less Courage: When Data Becomes a Shield
The more metrics you have, the less courage you need. How ROAS, open rates, and vanity metrics become excuses for never really deciding.
Serial Procrastinator: Confessions of Someone Exactly Like You
Are you actually productive, or just a serial procrastinator with a talent for looking busy? A lesson on work avoidance and how to break the cycle.
From Synchronous to Asynchronous: How AI Agents Are Changing the Way We Work
From synchronous interactions to asynchronous agent pipelines: the new AI-driven work model turns productivity into decision-making velocity.
AI Detox: It's Not an Addiction, It's a Choice
Tempted by an AI detox? AI isn't like TikTok — it's a multiplier, and it follows you everywhere. The real question: who would you unplug with?
ChatGPT Ads: High Prices, Low Volume, Year-2000 Tracking
ChatGPT advertising is live but nobody knows if it works. CPM $15–60, just 16k impressions per $1k budget, CTR under 1%. We're still in test mode.
The Real Leadership Test: What Happens When You're Not in the Room
I used to think your circle defines you. Managing people taught me otherwise: the real test is what happens when you're not there.
The Courage to Decide: When Compromise Is Not Leadership
Compromise only protects your career if you're a coward. Real decisions reveal who's actually accountable. A provocation on genuine leadership.
Management Measures Everything Except What It's Afraid to Find
Some companies obsessively track KPIs and productivity while carefully avoiding what actually matters: trust, honesty, and real impact on people.
The Hidden Monopoly in the Stanford HAI 2026 Report
Stanford HAI 2026 shows exponential AI growth, but over 90% of models are closed: power concentration dressed up as innovation.
The New Debt We Keep Accumulating: Verification Debt
Verification debt: the verification and documentation work we defer because AI accelerates everything. An invisible debt that erodes trust when the foundations were never really checked.
The Harvard Study That Should Shake Your Certainties About AI
A new Harvard Business School paper shows AI amplifies the skills gap — juniors catch up fast, but the machine brutally punishes anyone who strays out of bounds.
Corporate Stereotypes (and Why We Keep Tolerating Them)
An ironic — but not entirely — dissection of the corporate stereotypes we endure daily. PMOs stuck on calls, Sales overpromising, HR and pizza parties. Confess in the comments.
What If You Stopped Being Afraid?
Ambition isn't a dream — it's a flight from mediocrity, judgment, and FOMO. The ones who've beaten fear are truly dangerous. What are you building?
The Sunset of Digital Sovereignty
AI is bringing computing back to the mainframe era: cloud centralisation, memory scarcity, vendor lock-in. How we lost digital sovereignty.
Co-intelligence in Commerce: The Shift We're Not Talking About
After Commerce Symposium: humans and AI redefining work not through automation, but through genuine co-intelligence. And the questions nobody is asking.
When the Meeting Goes South, It's Probably Your Fault
Bad meetings aren't caused by executives who can't listen. More likely, you failed to read the room before you walked in.
Collaboration Is Overrated (It's Bureaucracy with a Nicer Name)
Most of what companies call collaboration is a carefully engineered way to diffuse responsibility and slow everything down.
Enough with the AI Narrative: I'm Eating a Croissant and That's Perfectly Fine
It's 8am and if you're not orchestrating 42 agents while making coffee, you're already a glowing idiot. Really?
The Simplicity Paradox: Why Well-Designed Systems Stay Invisible
A curious paradox in how companies evaluate work: simplicity is rarely rewarded, while complexity is loud, visible, and mistaken for sophistication.
What If an ATS's Real Power Is Deciding Your Career, Not Just Hiring You?
What if the real power of an ATS isn't getting you hired — but deciding whether your career inside the company goes anywhere at all?
From Dubai to Goodbye Is a Very Short Step
The spectacle of marketing-AI-crypto-passive-income gurus fleeing Dubai and slinking back to Italian soil puts a particular smile on my face.
Meta Smart Glasses Aren't Glasses: They're Surveillance Devices in Disguise
Remember that unsettling Black Mirror episode? It's not sci-fi anymore. The reality is darker than any film dared to imagine.
Legnano to Milan in 35 Minutes and City Brain: What If AI Actually Optimised Our Cities?
This morning I drove from Legnano to Milan in 35 minutes. Almost science fiction. It got me thinking about Alibaba's City Brain and what we're all leaving on the table.
Microslop, Memes and Copilot: Microsoft Is Already Inside Everything and You're Still Making Jokes
They already had 'micro' and 'soft'. Now M$ also has low quality — and Copilot is quietly becoming the invisible standard of daily work.
Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He's Making a Mistake: Napoleon's Leadership Lesson
Napoleon said never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake. In the workplace, the lesson still holds — if you apply it ethically.
EU Bans Destruction of Unsold Fashion Stock: Right Call, Wrong Diagnosis
The EU banned destruction of unsold fashion inventory. Applause. But excess stock is just a symptom — the real problem runs much deeper.
Malvag Dinner: scalability, resilience, and price — you can only pick two, they say
Last night's Malvag dinner with Joel Garia and Tito Petronio produced the outline of an infrastructure demo for Miamo that promises to be explosive.
AI on the Edge: Building a Local Data Analyst with OpenClaw and Ollama — Zero Token Costs
What does it actually mean to run AI on your own machine instead of the cloud? I've been testing it with OpenClaw and Ollama. Here's what I found.
Strategy Is Choosing What to Ignore: Saying Yes to Everything Isn't Strategy, It's Fear
Saying yes to everything isn't strategy — it's fear and lack of focus. Real strategy means choosing what to ignore.
The ERP Has Everything: The Problem Is That 'Everything' Is a Reeking Landfill
It all looks fine until someone needs to pull actual numbers. That's when you discover what kind of swamp your data really is.
The Most Important Skill in the AI Era? Not Becoming Replaceable
The Future of Jobs Report confirmed what I suspected: the key skill in the AI era won't be using AI. It'll be making yourself irreplaceable.
AI Is an Exoskeleton: It Makes the Easy Even Easier and the Hard Embarrassingly Complex
AI makes easy things easier and hard things harder. And there are no shortcuts for the parts that are genuinely human.
Malinin, Shaidorov, and the Boring Consistency That Always Wins
Last night's men's figure skating final said everything: the favourite collapsed, the outsider won gold with surgical precision. There's a management lesson here.
The Bridger: The Role That Actually Scales Innovation
The jump from Proof of Concept to production is where innovation goes to die. What you need is a bridger — the missing link between users, business, and tech.
How I Select My Team: An Ecommerce Data Analysis Role Play
None of us fully understands what we work on. I use a live ecommerce data role play to find the exact moment a candidate says 'I don't know'.
Goodbye Scott Adams, the Father of Dilbert Who Made Us Feel Less Alone at Work
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, is gone. A quiet moment on a commuter train, and a few unexpected tears.
Olympic Gold Teaches Us That Performance Is Protected, Not Forced
Winning Olympic gold on your birthday while breaking the world record isn't luck. It's the result of far-sighted choices sustained over time.
The Napoleon Technique: Why I Don't Read Your Emails
I stopped reacting to every 'urgent' in my inbox because most aren't: 90% of emergencies resolve themselves if you just wait.
ChatGPT Health: OpenAI Formalises Access to Your Most Sensitive Health Data
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, letting you ask for medical help — while handing over structured access to the most sensitive data that exists: your health.
Dissent Is a Superpower: Where Did the Courage to Disagree Go?
Dissent is a superpower. When properly integrated into organisations, it makes them healthy — it should be protected, not barely tolerated.
Claude vs ChatGPT Codex: Two Opposing Philosophies for AI in Coding
Hours apart, Anthropic and OpenAI launched their coding agents. Two approaches, two philosophies, two visions of what AI should do for developers.
The Digital Manager Doesn't Exist: It's Just a Container for Chaos
In 2026 we're still 'defining' the Digital Manager role. The truth: it's not a role. It's a container that changes its filling depending on which holes need plugging.
OpenAI Introduces Advertising: The A No Longer Stands for Advanced, It Stands for Ads
They promised AI would change the world. Instead it's becoming another search engine running the same tired ad-based business model.
The Five Degrees of Ignorance: Where Do You Stand?
We like to think we're well-trained professionals. But there are five levels of ignorance quietly driving our decisions. Find out where you land.
Watch Out for the AI Agent Hype. Building Them Well Is Hard — Ask Someone Who's Actually Done It.
I've spent months working on agentic AI projects. The enthusiasm I see online is wildly overblown. Here's why.
Not Just Prompts but Engrams: The Birth of Context Engineering
LLMs are only as good as the context you feed them. Who owns that context — and what happens when it runs out?
The Future Isn't Clicked, It's Spoken: Welcome to the Post-Digital Era
Generative AI is quietly dismantling digital management as we know it. Here's what survives the transition — and what doesn't.
"AI Is Not Sustainable." But Have the People Saying That Ever Looked at the Numbers?
Everyone at the AI conferences agreed: AI will never be green. I went and checked the data. The story is more surprising than the consensus.
Are We Letting AI Destroy Our Ability to Think?
We're all being pushed to use AI faster and with less brainpower. But the real risk isn't job loss — it's cognitive atrophy.