I started drafting this post in Obsidian. That alone says a lot, because I only started using it last week. In tech years, that’s practically “remarkably late.” I’ve been aware of Obsidian for ages—from Reddit, the YouTube tours of elaborate vault setups, the “this is my second brain” evangelists. But I always shrugged it off. …
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Sometime around the turn of the millennium, a strange new object appeared in my life. Metal, vaguely alien, it was bolted to the outside wall of our apartment building in Southern Italy: a satellite dish. Inside, a decoder box materialised in the living room, paired with a remote that looked ordinary enough, until I learned …
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Let’s talk about text. Not the paragraphs you agonise over in Google Docs or the emails you endlessly tweak before hitting send. I mean the tiny scraps of text you jot down throughout the day—an idea, a quick to-do, a formula you often use, a phone number someone just rattled off. The stuff that’s too …
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Every morning, before the workday hits with its emails and meetings, I settle in with The World in Brief from The Economist and the FT News Briefing. These short, sharp news podcasts are my go-to sources for catching up on global events and financial headlines. It’s a habit I’ve cultivated over time, a ritual that …
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People often ask me what I’m up to, so I thought it was a good idea to join the /now page movement started by Derek Sivers and provide this website with a /now page. Find it here ? franzvitulli.com/now A simple link, easy to remember and easy to type, that brings you to a nearly-always …
You know one thing that really makes me feel good? Supporting content creators. We all consume some form of free content online—articles, podcasts, newsletters, but even songs, short movies, etc. Sometimes they’re teasers to sell you a complete package, a product, or a subscription, but in so many instances they’re more like side projects whose …
If you follow me on the web, you know I’m a huge fan of Instagram. I was a bit disappointed when they started stealing every possible feature from Snapchat, but I’ve kept using it on a daily basis, just like millions of other people. Uploading my own photos, liking/commenting other Instagram users, and messing around …
2015 has been a big year for social media. Periscope and Snapchat exploded, Instagram became incredibly valuable for products and Twitter have been struggling to grow its user base. In 2016 the industry will keep evolving and renovating itself with its usual speed: predicting what’s next in the industry is, at best, problematic. That’s why I’m sharing a …
Let’s face it: we’ve all seen slides that suck. Business meetings, sales pitches, conferences, you name it, someone brought a terrible deck with poor colour contrast and tons of text, maybe written in Papyrus or C**** S***. Luckily those days seem to be over, or at least close to their end. At the last conferences I’ve …
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