I was listening to a popular podcast, one of those well-made ones: smart people, pace, observations that occasionally make you pause while you're doing something else. At a certain point, one of the hosts—a person I respect for her intelligence and acumen—said a phrase as old as my grandmother's cream-colored refrigerator: "There's no…
There's a specific moment when civilization stops working. It comes when you realize that dialogue is a performance, words bouncing off a rubber wall, and on the other end there's someone smiling because they know perfectly well there's nothing you can do about it. In that moment, anywhere in the world...
There's something I've come to understand, and it's been hard to understand: truth is one of the simplest things in the world. Yes or No. Black or White. Good or Evil. In its purest form, it is. Binary. Essential. Without margin for error. The problem isn't the truth. The problem is us, and...
There's a mistake that bad guys almost always make: they think all good people are fools. It's a very dangerous bias, and I understand where it comes from: often, those who appear good are just people who lack the courage to act otherwise. A superficial good person. A fool, in fact. And the bad guy, having learned to recognize this category, ends up...
Running an independent blog in 2026, in the midst of a tap-tap world, seems like a geometric contradiction. Science—or at least the marketers who sell it that way—tells us that the average human attention span has fallen below that of a goldfish. If a TikTok video doesn't show a guy doing something...
There's a mythological figure, a paradox that exists in every group of friends, in every couple, in every work circle. He doesn't have a cape, he doesn't have superpowers, but he's always there. Available. Ready. With his phone in his hand at 11:00 PM when you have a mess to sort out, with the right word when the world...
I told the train that passes only once in a lifetime, "No thanks! I have comfortable shoes and good legs. I'll walk." Then I told the second, the third, the fourth... And I even told the first one when it passed again. Well, I asked myself that too. Is it true? Or is it one of those...
There's a man—let's call him Riccardo—who turns on the phone every evening and gets angry. There's not enough work, prices are rising, a distant war that seems to have nothing to do with him. Yet he votes, comments, gets angry. Always in the wrong direction. A legitimate anger. Real. Absolutely right. Too bad it's always, systematically, directed in the wrong place. And no,…
Let's get one thing straight: I didn't slam the door of Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. I walked toward it slowly, brick by brick, accumulating years of disillusionment, annoyance, and finally, a lucid and definitive disgust. My relationship with social media has always been conflicted: from the naive enthusiasm of the early years—look at all the opportunities, all the connections,…
There's one thing that deserves recognition in contemporary global politics: it's coherent. Consistently mediocre, consistently cynical, consistently governed by people who seem to have emerged from a cross between a reality show and a forensic psychopathology textbook. The beauty—so to speak—is that this time, too, no one lost. Everyone won...
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