Category: Blog

We fail, we try and we try again.

We think we might have the right words at the right time but we fail.

We think we have the right answer, but we fail.

Well, we don’t fail that much, but we fail often enough.
Sometimes though we don’t remember that failing is common, we are not perfect, we are a continuous evolution, we constantly learn through trial an error, through successes.

We are often not humble enough to be humble.
Guess what? The world humble doesn’t transform us in humble people.

Being humble means listening and understanding, it means to not have ego.
And so we fail again.

The good news? We can learn, we can wait a second more before talking, we can try to be honest without trying to be false-humble and without being arrogant.
We can show our weaknesses without worry because once we know how to do it it’s a sane thing to do.

PS: yesterday I failed to write..

Few days ago I was in a bar and my eyes checked out the newspaper headlines of a local newspaper in the bar.

I started reading a few lines
“Sales date settled, it will be the 6th”
“The city of Anghiari recovers from the heavy rain”
etc etc.

It took me a while to notice that the headlines presented were of december 2010.
The newspaper was celebrating its 30 years in business and it displayed on one page some of the old cover pages of the old times.

Then I realized that newspaper both have and don’t have a context.
They don’t have a context because their context is strictly time related, the work in the absolute present, in the now.
Therefore, if you read the headline
“Sales date settled, it will be the 6th”
You would know which six because you are reading a contextually time-based piece.

But if you take the headline out of the newspaper, you’ll wonder “6th of which month?”
The same can be applied to any headline of newspaper since they are so closely linked to time.

Few minutes ago I was walking on the street and saw and Indian father playing outside with his child.

She smiled and laughed.

Right now in Italy there’s a lot of talking about immigration, as it always has been.

Seeing this scene just reminded that we are all human, we are beautiful every time we live in peace and love openly.

It will be hard to build a better world, but it will surely help us remember that the smile of a child unites us all under the same flag.

One of the most needed features of any digital product is to consider the daily life of the user and anticipate his or her questions.

The famous dashboard is often misused, but when it’s correctly done it can make a difference.

Products like Facebook obviously solve this problem from another angle, but the goal of this is to lessen the need of information through the dashboard.

Once everything you really need is there, you’re done.