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Today a dear friend of my father ate with us at lunch. He’s a quite strange man, had 2 wives, got near to having issues with the law.

He’s a man with great stories to tell, stories that can go from the simplest love story to the complex teenage behavior, to how to trick the law.

At first he might seem quite a “dirty” man, meaning that since he’s so borderline with the law he looks more of a thief when you hear his stories.
But he’s much more than that. He cries at movies, he has a real love for his child, he has values, and although he doesn’t recognize the common values a law has to offer, he still respects his values, which by the way are not so bad at all.

He’s clean, he doesn’t smoke but he has the issue with women and playing, both of them are terrible.

Today he told me a story, in romany when you want to marry a girl you gift to her a blue rose.
He told me this story with some kind of detachment but I knew it was an important story for him.

And that’s the thing: If we always stop at the first look, we’ll always see the most common part of a person.
The usual, the evident.

To see more, you have to go beyond that first look and search for the unique, the unusual everyone has to offer.

Today is a sad day.

In these days many people died, both in italy (train car crash between 2 trains at full speed), Nice being terrorized with 80deaths, and turkey with a coup.

I feel powerless, but don’t feel so bad, and I feel terrible for it.
I wish we could learn from these disasters, but then I think of how far the WW2 seems, how rarely understood it is.

The craziness doesn’t grow overnight.
It builds up.

It builds up through hatred, fear of diversity, non tolerance, and so on.
It builds in years.

And what I fear the most is not the attacks of external forces, of crazy people bombing themselves.
No.
What I fear the most is us, because it could be easy to start a war, a WW3, and that, that would be our last mistake, because with a WW3 there might be no other story to be told, given the immense powers nations have now.

I fear that we won’t have the willpower to say no.
To listen and follow justice and not vengeance.
To talk with the mind and not with the instinct.

If we don’t, we’re the ones that can harm ourselves more.

KPI stands for Key Performance Indicator.
It is an acronym used mostly in the business world where a KPI is a signal of how well or bad a company is performing.

A KPI can define the selling performance of a product, the number of registrations of users and so on.

From time to time we’ll forget about them and we’ll go 100% by “gut”, meaning that we won’t have a tangible way to measure the effects of our actions.
A KPI afterall is that: a way to measure the results of an action.

And even though it seems perfect ,KPI are far from being perfect, because not only you need them, but you also need them to be sound, coherent with what you’re measuring.

It’s easy to start measuring KPIs that are unrelated to the result you’re trying to achieve.
That said, when you go away from KPI everything is much more complex because everything can be both true and false, you don’t have a clear way to define what’s good and bad unless it’s totally evident (like a 300% increase in results).

Go by gut, but measure with reason.

I find it hard to understand art when it’s filled with crazy behaviours, for example if I go see a show in a theatre I would expect it to have some kind of theme, a line you can follow along, a direction that will lead to a conclusion.

It’s not always like that and it can happen that I get to see a show that is full of crazy people with crazy actions.
In those cases it’s hard for me to sympathize with the work because I can’t understand insanity, it’s something that doesn’t belong to me and I don’t understand why we should consider it “art”.

Yelling, is easy. Creating the tension between two actors is not.
A real tension, be it of rage, lust, whatever, is complex.

Even more complex is to communicate happiness.

All these feelings are real, that’s why they are hard, but insanity? It’s not commonly real. That is a shortcut to make an impression and not to build a show.

Think about it for a second… when you’re a child you play and so on, integrity is not something you even think about.

Integrity is the result of a set of values, of honor, of respect.
You start wanting that because you feel like that’s the way it should be, that’s the way we should threat people.

Some people are born with more integrity than others, they react more fast, but they didn’t really were born this way.
They loved and stand for their opinion and thus built their integrity.

But integrity is something you build day by day and you start chasing after a while.