Skip to content
Emanuele.
Menu
Close
About.
Topics.
Book.
Reading List.
Random Essay.
Newsletter.
566,598
words across
493
essays.
35
December 31, 2025
Action before Identity
September 02, 2025
Why is it never enough?
September 02, 2025
The Way Forward.
August 31, 2025
Habits & Goals
December 05, 2024
On Action.
November 18, 2024
Writing in the Age of AI
June 10, 2024
The Choice to Have a Good Day
June 06, 2024
Palermo.
April 16, 2024
If You Don’t Remember What You Read, Is It Pointless To Read?
April 16, 2024
One More Hour per Day.
April 15, 2024
Today Is All We Have.
April 04, 2024
Meaning & Responsibility.
April 03, 2024
On The Importance of Documentation.
April 02, 2024
If Reality was a Simulation.
April 01, 2024
On How We Judge Historical Atrocities.
March 30, 2024
“No” is a Complete Sentence.
February 24, 2024
Wisdom is Following Your Own Advice.
February 16, 2024
Trusting in the Long Term.
January 24, 2024
JFDI vs DFTU
January 05, 2024
Daily Message to Oneself
January 02, 2024
On Being Prolific.
December 13, 2023
On Fake Startup Validation.
December 12, 2023
The Bezos API Mandate.
December 09, 2023
On Digital Transformation.
December 08, 2023
Ambition vs Tranquility.
November 10, 2023
All Work Takes 25 Minutes.
November 09, 2023
Moving Towards What You Fear.
October 30, 2023
Considerations on Redistributions of Wealth
October 07, 2023
Meditation on Washing Dishes.
October 04, 2023
On Continuous Process Improvement.
October 02, 2023
Extracting Metadata from UNDP Public Audit Disclosures (v2).
October 01, 2023
Bentham’s Hedonic Calculus.
October 01, 2023
Will Solving Crime Become a Production Issue?
September 30, 2023
Management of WIP.
September 22, 2023
Absolute Accountability.
September 21, 2023
On Afghanistan.
September 14, 2023
The Boulder of Life.
September 07, 2023
Planning Life Without a Plan.
September 04, 2023
Commander’s Intent.
September 02, 2023
Initial Thoughts on Human Rights.
August 11, 2023
How Do We Know What is True?
August 10, 2023
The Irony of Tragedy
August 08, 2023
Boredom as a Strategy.
August 07, 2023
A Life Unlived.
August 04, 2023
The Three Types of Wealth.
August 02, 2023
On El Salvador & Criminal Justice.
July 30, 2023
On Project Timelines.
July 29, 2023
1 is more than 0.
July 24, 2023
On the UN General Assembly Voting System.
July 23, 2023
On Incremental Improvements.
July 22, 2023
Further Thoughts on Infinite Workloads.
July 20, 2023
The Philosophy of Train Travel.
June 19, 2023
On Chaos.
June 19, 2023
Extracting Metadata from UNDP Public Audit Disclosures (v1).
June 18, 2023
LLMtext2excel.
June 18, 2023
Automating Risk Registers at UNDP (v3).
June 18, 2023
Increasing LLM Speed.
June 14, 2023
Automating Risk Registers at UNDP (v2).
June 14, 2023
Automating Risk Registers at UNDP (v1).
June 13, 2023
Question and Answer AI on Documents.
June 11, 2023
Confidence Scores On High-Risk Project Detection.
June 11, 2023
Extracting Structured Data from Documents.
June 03, 2023
Word Salads.
May 30, 2023
Automatic Detection of UNDP High-Risk Projects (v1).
May 29, 2023
Dictation vs Typing.
May 15, 2023
UNDP Digital Standards.
May 14, 2023
TNSTAAFL.
May 14, 2023
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.
May 14, 2023
jSON Education Prompt for AI
May 13, 2023
Leveraging Vector Embeddings in the Development Sector.
May 13, 2023
We Reach the Same End by Discrepant Means.
May 01, 2023
Doing What We Should Do.
May 01, 2023
Thoughts on Retirement
April 29, 2023
On The Simulation Hypothesis.
April 29, 2023
Finding Quiet.
April 20, 2023
The World’s Best Onboarding.
April 05, 2023
There’s Always Too Much To Do.
April 05, 2023
Initial Thoughts on Metacognition.
March 25, 2023
Why Nothing Works.
March 25, 2023
Right Now Is Good.
March 25, 2023
Red Moon.
March 25, 2023
A Philosophical Python (Chatbot)
March 24, 2023
A Simple Python ChatBot.
March 21, 2023
A Brief History of AI (Part 1)
March 19, 2023
On-Device Large Language Model Progress.
March 18, 2023
Breadth First Search vs Depth First Search.
March 18, 2023
The Soul in the Concrete Jungle.
March 16, 2023
On Socratic Ideas.
March 16, 2023
Advice on Leaving Home.
March 10, 2023
The Case for Government.
March 05, 2023
Should All War Be Illegal?
February 25, 2023
What is the Most Fundamental Skill?
February 24, 2023
Feedback Loops in Strategy.
February 20, 2023
The Future of Movies.
February 15, 2023
On Professional Juries.
February 14, 2023
City Development vs Beauty.
February 14, 2023
Text Based Formats.
February 14, 2023
How to Evaluate Product Ideas for the Public Sector.
February 09, 2023
Inverse Thinking on Nuclear Weapons.
February 09, 2023
The Game of Life.
February 01, 2023
A Conversation with Lord Wotton.
January 29, 2023
Defining Strategy.
January 29, 2023
Thoughts on Strategy.
January 29, 2023
Strategy vs Planning.
January 26, 2023
On Marginal Improvements.
January 24, 2023
Considering a 20s User Guide.
January 23, 2023
Problems with Indicators.
January 23, 2023
Should There Be a Limit on Interest Rates?
January 22, 2023
Walking and Thinking.
January 15, 2023
Initial Overview of Socratic Dialogue.
January 14, 2023
An Initial Exploration of Democracy.
January 13, 2023
On Anxiety in My 20s.
January 13, 2023
Strategy vs Plan.
January 11, 2023
On Government Technology Failures (Part 1).
January 11, 2023
Observing Ourselves.
January 10, 2023
The Information Ladder.
January 09, 2023
Initial Thoughts on Defining Intelligence
January 09, 2023
Notes on Public Sector IT Failures.
January 08, 2023
Philosophical Meditation.
January 08, 2023
Habits v0.03
January 06, 2023
Involuntary Manslaughter (Part 2).
January 06, 2023
Journaling is a Discussion with the Self.
January 06, 2023
Additional Thoughts on Utopia.
January 04, 2023
Habits v0.02
January 02, 2023
Involuntary Manslaughter (Part 1).
January 02, 2023
Habits v0.01
January 01, 2023
Introducing habits.am
January 01, 2023
Reflections on a Year of Writing.
December 30, 2022
Patience Revisited.
December 30, 2022
The Pyramid of Learning.
December 30, 2022
Habits & Streaks.
December 29, 2022
AI & Jobs.
December 29, 2022
Resistance Revisited.
December 28, 2022
Reflections on Writing a Book.
December 26, 2022
Thinking About Listening.
December 24, 2022
Judges vs Algorithms.
December 24, 2022
The Sunny 16 Rule (Part 2).
December 23, 2022
The Sunny 16 Rule (Part 1).
December 23, 2022
so you want to be a writer?
December 22, 2022
Short Thought on Nuclear Weapons.
December 22, 2022
On Voluntary Manslaughter (Part 2).
December 22, 2022
Writing in Plain English.
December 22, 2022
On Dictation.
December 22, 2022
On Yearly Planning.
December 22, 2022
Handling Criticism, Revisited.
December 21, 2022
Brevity — Winston Churchill.
December 21, 2022
Notes on “Writing Well” by William Zinsser.
December 20, 2022
When Solitude is Useful.
December 20, 2022
On Witnessing a Double Homicide.
December 20, 2022
On Voluntary Manslaughter (Part 1).
December 20, 2022
On the Cultivation of Purpose.
December 20, 2022
On Homicide (Part 2).
December 20, 2022
On Homicide (Part 1).
December 19, 2022
Dealing with an Infinite Workload.
December 19, 2022
Hard Work and Leverage.
December 18, 2022
The Meaning of Meaning.
December 17, 2022
On Solitude.
December 16, 2022
Effort and Tourism.
December 15, 2022
OpenAI Whisper.
December 12, 2022
The Paradox of Law.
December 09, 2022
186 Billion Bits.
December 08, 2022
The Future of War.
December 07, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Custom Software Procurement.
December 07, 2022
On Large Meetings.
December 06, 2022
Further Thoughts:
Cost-Per-Transaction Model.
December 03, 2022
Kaizen and Compounding.
December 03, 2022
The 100ms Rule of Latency (Part 1).
December 03, 2022
A Decentralized System for Individual Trust.
December 03, 2022
Should Wigs be Banned in Court?
December 03, 2022
Harvard Referencing Guide.
December 01, 2022
Company Assessment — Blue.
December 01, 2022
The Next Process is the Customer.
December 01, 2022
Three Components for GTM Strategy.
November 29, 2022
An Additional Benefit of Meditation.
November 28, 2022
DOPAMINE (Acronym).
November 21, 2022
Minimalism Should Be Scary.
November 18, 2022
A Framework for Building Products.
November 17, 2022
Optimizing Landing Pages.
November 16, 2022
Consulting and Long-Term Decision-Making.
November 15, 2022
Thoughts on Strategy.
November 14, 2022
Learning via Reflection.
November 13, 2022
Why is Grass Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence?
November 12, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Life Planning.
November 12, 2022
Inefficiency Hurts at Any Scale.
November 11, 2022
Clarity in Writing.
November 10, 2022
Thought Experiment: Replication Machines v1.
November 09, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Spaced Repetition.
November 08, 2022
A Cut Finger.
November 08, 2022
Manny’s Matrix: A Simple Product Prioritization Matrix.
November 07, 2022
On City Life.
November 07, 2022
The Psychology of Selling SaaS.
November 06, 2022
Why Do We Punish Criminals?
November 05, 2022
Actus Reus (Part 1).
November 04, 2022
Further Thoughts on Simplicity.
November 03, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Principles of Process Design.
November 02, 2022
AR+MR-D = L
November 01, 2022
The Importance of a Free Market for Ideas.
November 01, 2022
Conquering the Little Barbarians.
October 31, 2022
The Futility of Goals.
October 31, 2022
Another Perspective on Materialism.
October 30, 2022
IT vs Digital.
October 28, 2022
Further Thoughts on Rivers.
October 28, 2022
Travel is Good for the Soul.
October 27, 2022
What is the True Cost of Red Tape?
October 25, 2022
The Learning Spiral.
October 24, 2022
The Ways To Think About Death.
October 24, 2022
Everything is Interesting.
October 23, 2022
Should It Be Illegal To Have Sex with Child Robots?
October 23, 2022
Experiencies vs Narratives.
October 20, 2022
What Money Can’t Buy v1.
October 17, 2022
How to use Company Assessment Tools.
October 16, 2022
Eisenhower Matrixes.
October 14, 2022
Consistent Actions.
October 11, 2022
Dealing with Frustrations.
October 06, 2022
Sophisticated Simplicity.
September 29, 2022
7-S Framework Checklist Questions.
September 29, 2022
How I write.
September 29, 2022
The Room That Gives You Anything.
September 27, 2022
What Can We Do With 1% Of Our Day?
September 23, 2022
A Great Question to Ask Yourself.
September 19, 2022
The Advantages of Small Organizations.
September 19, 2022
Thoughts on Writing.
September 18, 2022
On Leadership & Risk.
September 16, 2022
The Mckinsey 7-S Framework.
September 16, 2022
Lessons from Cold Showers.
September 16, 2022
Avoid Perfection.
September 13, 2022
Supply & Demand 101.
September 13, 2022
SMART Goals.
September 12, 2022
Project Management: First Principles.
September 12, 2022
Further Thoughts on Fight Club.
September 11, 2022
Exponential Thinking.
September 10, 2022
Does Remote Work Enable Larger Meetings?
September 10, 2022
On Lazy Thinking.
September 08, 2022
Thinking Through Blue Pricing.
September 08, 2022
My Answer to “Does This Milkshake Taste Funny?”
September 07, 2022
SaaS Quick Ratio Explained.
September 06, 2022
The Tannenbaum & Schmidt Continuum.
September 06, 2022
Further Thoughts on Resistance.
September 05, 2022
Why Work Is Important.
September 05, 2022
The Big Five Personality Traits in Leadership.
September 05, 2022
What Do Managers Do?
September 05, 2022
What is Organizational Behaviour?
September 04, 2022
Giving Customers No Choice.
September 03, 2022
Where Are All the Failures?
September 02, 2022
Why I Am Studying an Open Degree.
September 01, 2022
Some Problems with Capitalism.
August 31, 2022
Decisions vs Outcomes.
August 31, 2022
On Delegation.
August 30, 2022
Decision-Making 3.
August 29, 2022
Thoughts on Development of the Self.
August 28, 2022
A Simple Proposal To Save The Oceans.
August 27, 2022
A Mental Model for Qualifying Customers.
August 26, 2022
On Control (Revisited).
August 25, 2022
It Could Be Worse.
August 24, 2022
Why You Are Fooled by Magic Tricks.
August 23, 2022
The Joys of Scheduling.
August 22, 2022
Initial Thoughts on the Metaverse.
August 21, 2022
Good Management in Invisible.
August 20, 2022
Why I Take Photos.
August 19, 2022
Autotelic Work.
August 18, 2022
On Working Remotely.
August 17, 2022
On Management Incentive Structures.
August 16, 2022
The Toxicity of Productivity.
August 15, 2022
The Indefensibility of Vegetarianism.
August 14, 2022
Stable Habits.
August 13, 2022
On Crossing a River.
August 12, 2022
Crossing the Rubicon.
August 11, 2022
An Overview of The Five Levels of Leadership.
August 10, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Wealth.
August 09, 2022
The Sweet and The Bitter.
August 08, 2022
Monking Around.
August 07, 2022
The Importance of Having a Life Philosophy.
August 06, 2022
Done is Better than Perfect.
August 05, 2022
Understanding Leisure.
August 04, 2022
Moving Towards or Away.
August 03, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Airline Economics.
August 02, 2022
Decision-Making 2.
August 01, 2022
UX/UI as a Proxy of System Quality.
July 31, 2022
Decision-Making 1.
July 30, 2022
The Curse of the Traveller.
July 29, 2022
Pineapple on Pizza.
July 28, 2022
More Thoughts on Flow State.
July 27, 2022
100 Small Changes.
July 26, 2022
Fake Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software.
July 25, 2022
Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365.
July 24, 2022
How to Sabotage Your Organization.
July 23, 2022
How I Overcame My Fear of Flying.
July 22, 2022
Pyramid Expectations.
July 21, 2022
Traffic Lights vs Roundabouts.
July 20, 2022
Borrow Decisions From your Future Self.
July 19, 2022
Understanding Insulin v1.
July 18, 2022
How to Use YouTube.
July 17, 2022
Meditation on the Last Time.
July 16, 2022
Evidence of Being Wrong.
July 15, 2022
Recommended Notification Settings.
July 14, 2022
Searching for Opposing Views.
July 13, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Nuclear Weapons.
July 12, 2022
Appreciating Nature.
July 11, 2022
Todo Lists vs Scheduling.
July 10, 2022
Thoughts from 40,000 Feet.
July 09, 2022
Ubiquitous Capture Devices.
July 08, 2022
The Problem with Too Many Options.
July 07, 2022
The Law of Triviality.
July 06, 2022
Disagree & Commit.
July 05, 2022
Prioritization For Leaders.
July 04, 2022
The Types of Boundaries.
July 03, 2022
Talent, Concentration, and Determination.
July 02, 2022
On Incentives.
July 01, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Bell Curves.
June 30, 2022
Just Write.
June 29, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Flow State.
June 28, 2022
At What Cost — Again.
June 27, 2022
Thought Experiment: A Transparent Society.
June 26, 2022
Building A Wall.
June 25, 2022
Keep It Simple.
June 24, 2022
Experiencing a Dollar Bill.
June 23, 2022
‌On Success.
June 22, 2022
Does Quantity Give Significance?
June 21, 2022
Cultivating Indifference.
June 20, 2022
Thinking in Higher Time Frames.
June 19, 2022
How to Be Content.
June 18, 2022
On Holidays, Revisted.
June 17, 2022
Holidays.
June 16, 2022
The Tragedy of the Commons.
June 15, 2022
Phnom Penh (2016).
June 14, 2022
On Luxury.
June 13, 2022
Startup CEO Focus Areas.
June 12, 2022
Doing The Unscalable.
June 12, 2022
How To Install a Calendar In Your Brain.
June 11, 2022
Centralized vs Decentralized Systems v2.
June 10, 2022
Vegetarian Diets.
June 09, 2022
The Future: Utopia or Dystopia?
June 08, 2022
On Deep Work.
June 07, 2022
Five Steps to Minimalism.
June 06, 2022
Everyday Opportunities.
June 05, 2022
On Anger.
June 04, 2022
On Doing Nothing.
June 03, 2022
How Much is Enough?
June 02, 2022
Lessons from Edge of Tomorrow.
June 01, 2022
Opinions of a Time Traveller.
May 31, 2022
Pyramids: A Waste of Time?
May 31, 2022
Negotiation in Life.
May 31, 2022
How I Overcame Writer’s Block.
May 30, 2022
A Definition of a “Philosophy of Life”.
May 29, 2022
How Long Does It Take?
May 28, 2022
The Complexity of Simplicity.
May 27, 2022
Centralized vs Decentralized Systems v1.
May 26, 2022
Casco Viejo — Panama.
May 25, 2022
Goodhart’s Law.
May 24, 2022
f/8 And Be There.
May 23, 2022
The Paradox of Being a Millennial.
May 22, 2022
Thinking One Sticky Note at a Time.
May 21, 2022
Initial Thoughts on Social Constructs.
May 20, 2022
Western vs Eastern Happiness.
May 19, 2022
The Bus to Abilene.
May 18, 2022
Hitler.
May 17, 2022
How to Live on 40 Tomatoes a Week.
May 16, 2022
On Losing Things.
May 15, 2022
The Tortoise and The Hare.
May 14, 2022
Thinking Clearly.
May 13, 2022
Motivation.
May 12, 2022
Self-Doubt.
May 11, 2022
Collar Colour.
May 10, 2022
Government Financial Transparency.
May 09, 2022
How to Carpe Diem.
May 08, 2022
Be Your Own Consultant.
May 07, 2022
How to Never Fail.
May 06, 2022
Finding Yourself in Difficult Times.
May 05, 2022
The Enchiridion of Epictetus.
May 04, 2022
On Losing a Parent.
May 03, 2022
Stop and Think.
May 02, 2022
Problems Into Solutions.
May 01, 2022
What’s The Worst That Can Happen?
April 30, 2022
On Being Hungry.
April 29, 2022
80/20 Rule.
April 28, 2022
Perfect Roast Potatoes.
April 27, 2022
On Perspective.
April 26, 2022
On The Value of Things.
April 25, 2022
The Sustainable Development Goals.
April 24, 2022
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
April 23, 2022
What is a Platform?
April 22, 2022
What is an Intellectual?
April 21, 2022
90/10 Product Management.
April 20, 2022
The Two Types of Work.
April 19, 2022
Experiment: Four Day Work Week.
April 18, 2022
The Power Of Waiting.
April 17, 2022
Airports Are Stoic Tests.
April 16, 2022
Consistency.
April 15, 2022
The Map vs The Path.
April 14, 2022
Parkinson’s Law.
April 13, 2022
A Transparent Society.
April 12, 2022
The First Ten Paying Customers.
April 11, 2022
What Makes Me, Me? (And You, You?)
April 10, 2022
A Discussion on Free Speech.
April 09, 2022
Believe You Can Be Wrong.
April 08, 2022
Being Cityless.
April 07, 2022
The Real Cost of Cheap Shit.
April 06, 2022
Three Hours in Rome.
April 05, 2022
The Top 1%.
April 04, 2022
Let The Arrow Fly.
April 03, 2022
At What Cost?
April 02, 2022
You Are On Earth.
April 01, 2022
Questions to a Psychotherapist.
March 31, 2022
Enlightened Hedonism.
March 30, 2022
The Beauty of Silence.
March 29, 2022
Recommended Daily Habits.
March 28, 2022
On Utopia.
March 27, 2022
Business Risks.
March 26, 2022
Design & Taste.
March 25, 2022
The Third Place.
March 24, 2022
Everyday Stoicism.
March 23, 2022
Filtering Out Time Wasters.
March 22, 2022
Does Quantity Give Significance?
March 21, 2022
Two Handles.
March 20, 2022
Why Wake Up Early?
March 19, 2022
Just Ask.
March 18, 2022
Synchronous vs Asynchronous.
March 17, 2022
The Philosophy of Sales.
March 16, 2022
How We Treat Animals.
March 15, 2022
Measure what matters, or don’t.
March 14, 2022
Why .cc?
March 13, 2022
Monotask: Do One Thing At A Time.
March 12, 2022
Maxim: How To Spot Bullshitters.
March 11, 2022
On Independence & Quality.
March 10, 2022
The First Thing to Control.
March 09, 2022
Cost-Per-Transaction Model.
March 08, 2022
Maxims for Thinking Analytically.
March 07, 2022
The Power Of Words.
March 06, 2022
Placing a Focus On Direction.
March 05, 2022
A New Paradigm for Productivity.
March 04, 2022
Regret Minimization Framework.
March 03, 2022
On Control.
March 02, 2022
Making Time For Ourselves.
March 01, 2022
A Straight-Forward Book Structure.
February 28, 2022
Invictus.
February 27, 2022
If.
February 26, 2022
The Difference In Details.
February 25, 2022
The Two Types of Decisions.
February 24, 2022
The Importance of Strategy.
February 23, 2022
The Future’s Opinion of Today.
February 22, 2022
What Are Good Working Habits?
February 21, 2022
Stress Revisited.
February 20, 2022
Thoughts on Teleportation.
February 19, 2022
The Fermi Paradox.
February 18, 2022
On YouTube.
February 17, 2022
Boredom.
February 16, 2022
On Unwarranted Skepticism.
February 15, 2022
Investing In Books.
February 14, 2022
Business vs Morals.
February 13, 2022
Patience.
February 12, 2022
Fight Club Philosophy.
February 11, 2022
Collecting Ideas.
February 10, 2022
Attention & Advertising Trends.
February 09, 2022
A Question Worth Asking.
February 08, 2022
Great Customer Service – Mistakes.
February 07, 2022
On Starting Again.
February 06, 2022
Make Your Desk Tidy.
February 05, 2022
On Double Ignorance.
February 04, 2022
Trying to Find Silence.
February 03, 2022
No Emails.
February 02, 2022
The Promise of a New Month.
February 01, 2022
Rules For a Better Life.
January 31, 2022
The Ultimate Guide to Minimalism.
January 30, 2022
A Gun To My Head.
January 29, 2022
Should You Believe a Sales Pitch?
January 28, 2022
Strategy vs Execution.
January 27, 2022
On Delayed Gratification.
January 26, 2022
The Philosophy of Sales.
January 25, 2022
How We Treat Animals.
January 24, 2022
The Inverted U Curves Of Life.
January 23, 2022
Doing Less.
January 22, 2022
Be a Lumberjack.
January 21, 2022
Should You Go To University?
January 20, 2022
Abstracts of 34 Via Montesanto.
January 19, 2022
A Few Haikus.
January 18, 2022
Burn Your Ships.
January 17, 2022
Drinking Coffee is Lying to Yourself.
January 16, 2022
One Step.
January 15, 2022
Cicero’s Six Mistakes of Man.
January 14, 2022
Our Relationship with Technology.
January 13, 2022
Three Breathing Tricks.
January 12, 2022
Overcoming Resistance.
January 11, 2022
Ten Useful Stoic Exercises.
January 10, 2022
The Washington Post Test.
January 09, 2022
Controlling Emotional Responses.
January 08, 2022
Why I Wear An Expensive Watch.
January 07, 2022
Free Will: Initial Thoughts.
January 06, 2022
Handling Criticism.
January 05, 2022
Book Summary: Homo Deus.
January 04, 2022
Book Recommendations.
January 03, 2022
On Simplicity: How We Write.
January 02, 2022
Hello World.
January 01, 2022
