Once upon a time on the internet

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Sometimes I wonder if today I would be living a more fulfilling life if, 30 years ago, I had studied philosophy instead of computer science. It mostly happens when I’m uberbored at work or pissed at my boss. Young-me was in doubt for months between studying physics and philosophy. That doubt led current-age-me to end up exactly where he is today. All our life choices are haunted by the ghosts of the choices that might have been instead, or whatever Roland Barthes said. And, as logical counterfactuals are always true because their premises are false, if I had studied philosophy, I would be logically happy by now. Not sure if logical happiness is different from regular happiness, but this is irrelevant. Today I’m in need of a rupture. Let the timeline in which I graduate in philosophy, with a dissertation titled “Lead, Gold, and Cryptograms as Payment Systems: An Alchemical Journey around 16th- and 17th-Century Europe” begin. In 2003, Bitcoin and Yeezy were not yet a thing, but today I could write a paragraph comparing Giordano Bruno and Kanye West: they both sold the idea that one can get rich quick using a technology so advanced it cannot be distinguished from magic, and they both burned, one more literally than the other, once their machineries went mainstream. It doesn’t matter if the position along the celestial sphere is calculated on silicon and read on screen, or by hand and bound in folio, the trick is far older than this old dog: those who know how the machinery works can sell certainty to those who do not even know where the machinery begins. In the other timeline I’m an engineer, I build complex intelligent machines. In this timeline I will let the engineer burn.

About me

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:59:00 +0000

You might be wondering how we both ended up here. I can help with my side of the story, but can only speculate about yours. Probably, you are into hairy, middle-aged Mediterranean men and followed the link on my Instagram profile (yep, that’s a thing on the internet), or you were looking for the villain in the Transformers and found a mildly cringe guy instead. As far as I’m concerned, I’m here because I’m in exploration mode. At the moment, I’m going through the rabbit hole of building a startup. I put my touch on pieces of tech deployed on the whole planet, worked for a bit with people building tech going outside this world (not LARPing), and now I’m at a tipping point. My question is: can I build something of my own? This, esteemed reader, is the entrance to my very personal rabbit hole. Feel free to take one further step and jump in. If I ask you to dig, it will be into food (perks of associating with Italians) and stories. Speaking of stories, I’m a hyper-political half-werewolf, and I love to argue as a stubborn engineer (all the good food comes with a price). Finally, to make my attorney happy: all opinions expressed on this blog are my own, and I never speak on behalf of my employer or any of my clients. Any resemblance to actual events, venues, or persons is coincidental. The content on this blog is provided for entertainment and informational purposes only. Always use your own judgement: I won’t take responsibility for your failures, and, if you take advice from me, you probably deserve to screw up.

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