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Your DNA is a financial asset

Your DNA is a financial asset

Temporary policy, permanent infrastructure.

  My two penny    January 10, 2026
Same cost of living, different rights

Same cost of living, different rights

why the train driver can strike and the copywriter can't

  My two penny    January 9, 2026
The coordinator was already an algorithm

The coordinator was already an algorithm

AI simply removed the option to ignore it.

  My two penny    January 8, 2026
The year the lie became perfect

The year the lie became perfect

Why human imperfection has become the last line of defence

  My two penny    January 7, 2026
The end of functional hypocrisy

The end of functional hypocrisy

Some are still arguing left versus right. Others have noticed the game has changed.

  My two penny    January 6, 2026
Italy's gold belongs to the people

Italy's gold belongs to the people

the warning light disconnected from the engine

  Real life    January 5, 2026
Six dots. Nothing more

Six dots. Nothing more

The rest is nothing.

  My two penny    January 4, 2026
The tariff war nobody can win

The tariff war nobody can win

You're footing the bill regardless.

  My two penny    January 2, 2026
No more alibis

No more alibis

Is AI really killing creativity, or just dividing those who have something to say from the fakers?

  Real life    January 1, 2026
A number on the calendar

A number on the calendar

Other people's midnight

  My two penny    December 31, 2025
Year-end reviews and other pointless conventions

Year-end reviews and other pointless conventions

The ritual I don't observe anymore

  My two penny    December 30, 2025
Tea time, whenever that may be

Tea time, whenever that may be

The days that don't count

  Real life    December 29, 2025
Breakfast and the slave I didn't know I was

Breakfast and the slave I didn't know I was

sometimes is definitely better have breakfast at home

  Real life    December 28, 2025
What Netflix's billion dollars can't buy

What Netflix's billion dollars can't buy

...which reminds me that Cafè in Rome

  My two penny    December 27, 2025
Boxing Day and the bill for performance

Boxing Day and the bill for performance

The day the masks slip

  My two penny    December 26, 2025
Germany and the privilege of being too important to fail

Germany and the privilege of being too important to fail

The engine of Europe has stalled. The interesting part is why nobody can admit it.

  My two penny    December 23, 2025
Every exit leads back inside

Every exit leads back inside

A resilience they don't teach

  My two penny    December 22, 2025
The grammar of deterrence

The grammar of deterrence

Complete the description of the article

  My two penny    December 21, 2025
The West's most expensive game of chicken

The West's most expensive game of chicken

Why Europe's caution on Russian assets is being read as a signal, not a principle

  My two penny    December 19, 2025
The bubble chorus

The bubble chorus

and who is actually playing the tune

  My two penny    December 18, 2025
The agentic AI era

The agentic AI era

mechanics of delegated responsibility

  My two penny    December 17, 2025
When the rescuers empty the temple

When the rescuers empty the temple

the EU is being bypassed by its own defenders

  My two penny    December 13, 2025
Brussels had its reality check this week.

Brussels had its reality check this week.

Sound familiar?

  My two penny    December 12, 2025
When inefficiency becomes the real luxury

When inefficiency becomes the real luxury

Why the ultra-high segment is moving in the opposite direction to everyone else

  My two penny    December 11, 2025
The great audit of useless work

The great audit of useless work

Why artificial intelligence isn't stealing jobs, but revealing which ones never really existed

  My two penny    December 10, 2025
Episode II: the dinosaurs strike back

Episode II: the dinosaurs strike back

When I thought I'd understood the ending, Hollywood rewrote the script

  Real life    December 9, 2025
The children's table

The children's table

The London choreography

  My two penny    December 8, 2025
The apprentice didn't surpass the master, he bought the school

The apprentice didn't surpass the master, he bought the school

A story of art, money and power reversals that no one saw coming

  Real life    December 7, 2025
Marketing is dead and the clients are paying for the funeral.

Marketing is dead and the clients are paying for the funeral.

How the industry turned systems engineering into an aesthetics competition

  Real life    December 4, 2025
Europe is looking for its keys under the lamppost

Europe is looking for its keys under the lamppost

Institutional architecture meets the reality of conflict

  Real life    December 3, 2025
What if digital marketing was never a real profession?

What if digital marketing was never a real profession?

Twenty years of jobs that should never have existed

  My two penny    December 3, 2025
Thermodynamics of hypocrisy

Thermodynamics of hypocrisy

how China exports the past to fund the future

  My two penny    December 2, 2025
Same story, four realities

Same story, four realities

what the Yermak affair reveals about how news actually works

  Real life    December 1, 2025
Why we keep buying gifts nobody wants

Why we keep buying gifts nobody wants

and we are happy to do it

  My two penny    November 29, 2025
An Italian satisfying lesson in game theory

An Italian satisfying lesson in game theory

The sad tale of a satisfying own goal

  My two penny    November 28, 2025
The infinite Overton window

The infinite Overton window

Or: when politics promises, delivers at someone else's expense, and then looks for someone to blame

  My two penny    November 27, 2025
What if it's all an act?

What if it's all an act?

A story of collective hypocrisy

  My two penny    November 26, 2025
The great bluff

The great bluff

Nobody controls AI but everyone pretends to

  My two penny    November 25, 2025
The international day against violence against women guarantees nothing changes

The international day against violence against women guarantees nothing changes

How the moral ritual replaces systemic redesign

  My two penny    November 24, 2025
The small business video paradox

The small business video paradox

and not only

  Real life    November 23, 2025
Trump was right.

Trump was right.

and this is a problem.

  My two penny    November 22, 2025
The red light and the zero-cost mind

The red light and the zero-cost mind

One crosses, ten follow

  Real life    November 21, 2025
Nvidia grows 94% and Wall Street relaxes.

Nvidia grows 94% and Wall Street relaxes.

But, wait didn't we see this film before?

  Wake up    November 20, 2025
Bezos's invisible game

Bezos's invisible game

building the layer whilst everyone looks elsewhere

  Real life    November 18, 2025
The surgical window

The surgical window

why healthy systems become terminal whilst everyone watches

  Real life    November 18, 2025
What happens when you're forced to spend more than you'll earn

What happens when you're forced to spend more than you'll earn

€750 billion and the architecture of a predictable failure

  My two penny    November 17, 2025
Private capital discovers geopolitics

Private capital discovers geopolitics

the unbundling of the defence industry

  My two penny    November 14, 2025
Europe's Xerox moment

Europe's Xerox moment

Complete the description of the article

  Real life    November 13, 2025
What you discover when you can't fake it anymore

What you discover when you can't fake it anymore

things I discovered about myself through sport.

  Real life    November 12, 2025
Anatomy of a stalemate

Anatomy of a stalemate

sometimes surrender costs less than resistance

  My two penny    November 11, 2025
The season of impossible certainties

The season of impossible certainties

why financial forecast never work.

  Real life    November 10, 2025
The great unbundling

The great unbundling

why positional authority is structurally obsolete

  My two penny    November 9, 2025
The return of the barons

The return of the barons

how founder cults are killing corporate governance

  Real life    November 7, 2025
The hidden mathematics behind Mamdani's victory

The hidden mathematics behind Mamdani's victory

When psychology loses to mathematics

  Real life    November 6, 2025
The British fuse

The British fuse

anatomy of a political system in self-destruction

  My two penny    November 5, 2025
The European directive that wants to save the planet

The European directive that wants to save the planet

by extracting 5% of global turnover

  My two penny    November 3, 2025
Italian venture capital versus the UK market

Italian venture capital versus the UK market

when one company rewrites the rules

  My two penny    November 1, 2025
The tariff illusion

The tariff illusion

why Europe is hostage to deals already collapsing

  My two penny    October 29, 2025
How the same event becomes two realities

How the same event becomes two realities

anatomy of narrative warfare

  My two penny    October 27, 2025
Europe's 2030 Test

Europe's 2030 Test

When System Architecture Reveals Real Incentives

  My two penny    October 26, 2025
The cost of speaking to everyone

The cost of speaking to everyone

why universal messaging leads to systemic mediocrity

  My two penny    October 25, 2025
Europe's moment of truth

Europe's moment of truth

which path will it take?

  My two penny    October 23, 2025
Geopolitical fragmentation as permanent operating system

Geopolitical fragmentation as permanent operating system

When neutrality becomes an impossible luxury

  My two penny    October 21, 2025
From Pareto to the "Pareto Principle"

From Pareto to the "Pareto Principle"

The Story of a Progressive Distortion

  Real life    October 16, 2025
Memory wars and the fragile design of commemoration

Memory wars and the fragile design of commemoration

and the fragile design of commemoration

  My two penny    October 13, 2025
The ceasefire designed to collapse:

The ceasefire designed to collapse:

anatomy of a profitable stalemate

  Wake up    October 11, 2025
The 100% bluff

The 100% bluff

when political momentum meets systemic reality

  My two penny    October 11, 2025
The AI Act and copyright

The AI Act and copyright

why everyone's looking at the wrong problem

  My two penny    October 10, 2025
Another Israel-Hamas agreement

Another Israel-Hamas agreement

Tactical pause or structural breakthrough?

      October 9, 2025
The veggie burger and the lost art of category creation

The veggie burger and the lost art of category creation

when the crutch becomes a cage

  Real life    October 8, 2025
Starlink isn't stealing customers from operators

Starlink isn't stealing customers from operators

It's making their business model obsolete.

  My two penny    October 7, 2025
When institutions stop working:

When institutions stop working:

the French crisis and the pattern you'll see everywhere

  Real life    October 6, 2025
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