The essays on this site are not published in chronological order for first-time visitors. They cluster into six thematic guides, each with a recurring thesis, a precise audience, and a reasoned index of the most relevant essays. Below is the map: pick the guide that answers the question that brought you here.
Artificial intelligence, honestly
I write about AI as a political and organisational fact before a technical one. This is the index page — my stance and the essays I've written on it.
Who this is for For people working with AI who refuse to treat it as a purely technical fact and want to read it as political and economic too.
European software compliance 2026
CRA, AI Act, PLD, NIS2, EAA, DORA. Six regulations that between 2026 and 2027 reshape how software is designed, sold and documented in Europe. This is the index page — with my own take, the deadlines, and every essay I've written for each one.
Who this is for For people designing systems under AI Act, CRA, NIS2, GDPR who refuse to treat compliance as a checklist to sign at the end.
Enter the guideEuropean digital sovereignty
Sovereignty isn't a flag: it's a lattice of dependencies. This is the index page on my essays about trying to map it, without ideology or rhetoric.
Who this is for For people buying public or critical infrastructure who don't want to wake up hostage to a single American hyperscaler.
The craft of software
Architecture, technical leadership, decisions that last. This is the index page on how I try to make software in Italy and Europe — without copying the US, and without taking comfort in the difference.
Who this is for For people who write software, read it, review it: craft as a pre-industrial fact, not as a pipeline of best practices.
IT advisory and sourcing
The IT services market sells labour hours and calls it value. Time & materials is a tax on operational ignorance. This is the index page on essays where I try to say so from the inside.
Who this is for For people buying IT advisory, managing T&M vendors, deciding how much to keep in-house. CIOs, heads of IT, procurement directors.
Technology, attention, humanism
The 'user engagement' frame is a moral lens that looks neutral. It isn't. Digital products shape attention, and attention is the raw material of citizenship. This is the index page.
Who this is for For people taking attention seriously as civic raw material: educators, designers, anyone building products that compete with other people's life-time.
If none of these guides frames exactly what you are looking for, try the chronological archive in Essays or the alphabetical index in Topics. All four languages of the site share the same guides structure: the language switch in the header takes you to each translated version.