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Brief reflections and working materials on generative AI, adoption, and governance in Italian organizations. What we learn by doing, every day.

Jul 14, 2026

Ten days to redesign a workflow: what holds Uber's pods together

Uber's CTO has said that 99% of Uber engineers use AI tools. Over 70% of pull requests are attributed to agents. More than 2,500 agent skills built in-house across the software development cycle. Impressive numbers, but Naga says the real problem wasn't there: it was in Finance, Legal, Operations, Marketing, Customer Support, HR and Procurement. Functions that run on manual workflows, full of exceptions and judgement, spread across dozens of systems. And that can't be automated by reading process diagrams, because the diagrams don't tell you how the work actually gets done.

Jun 2, 2026

AI adoption models aren't built, they're cultivated. A periphrasis on the encyclical

On the paradox of power. AI isn't a technical problem. It's a problem of who's in charge. And the most lucid text of the year was written by a Pope.

May 19, 2026

What Italy is getting wrong about AI adoption

Italian companies aren't ignoring artificial intelligence. They're getting their hands dirty with it: POCs, pilots, budgets, partners. But they are all answering the same wrong question. They're asking how to use AI to do better what they already do. They're not asking what remains of their business model when AI does what their specialists used to do. The difference between those two questions, as history shows, is worth an entire company.

May 4, 2026

The company world model is a map. Not an operating system

The company world model is a powerful tool for governing AI agents and distributed organisations. But there is a fundamental difference between using it as a map (nervous system, simulation, management by exception) and using it as an operating system to run the company as if it were code. A mistake that sterilises precisely what makes organisations capable of adapting.

Feb 25, 2026

Positivist rebuttal to Citrini Research's "2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" scenario

Executive Summary Citrini Research's "2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" scenario is written as an operational memo: within two years AI enters office jobs, reduces headcount and wages, household spending contracts, private credit dries up, and a portion of the prime mortgage market comes under stress, with a domino effect.

Feb 9, 2026

Are You Using AI Like Gandalf?

What role should AI play in a project? The most fitting one, in my view, is the role Gandalf takes in The Lord of the Rings. And if you've never seen the films, you don't deserve to read this article. Joking (but not entirely). Let's imagine the team as members of the Fellowship of the Ring and the project as the journey towards