Long-form notes on photography, productivity, and AI. Plain English. No filler.
I’m Andrea. Italian, based in Bangkok since 2022. I work as a Service Delivery Lead, focused on AI, RAG, and agentic projects: the production side of generative AI for enterprise clients. On weekends, street photography on Fujifilm and a steady reading habit. This is where the three threads meet: AI as a tool that compounds, productivity as systems thinking, and photography as a way of seeing the work clearly.
The bar for what gets posted here: it has to be useful, specific, and honest about what I don’t know. If something is uncertain, I say so. If the topic deserves length, the post earns it.
Latest posts
- The PKM Trap: Capturing More Than You ConnectI saved the same article twice. A week apart. Different folders. No memory of the first save. The article was Tiago Forte’s guide to building a second brain. That’s when I knew the system wasn’t working. Not because I was careless, but because the system had no way to show me what it already knew.… Read more: The PKM Trap: Capturing More Than You Connect
- I Didn’t Have a Self-Control Problem. I Had a Friction Problem.For a while I thought I just lacked discipline. I had 80-something apps on my phone and used maybe a dozen regularly. I had 18 habits tracked in my system and was hitting roughly 10 of them. And I was buying things I didn’t need, cheap or on offer, because clicking “buy” was easy. The… Read more: I Didn’t Have a Self-Control Problem. I Had a Friction Problem.
- The Demo Worked. Mine Didn’t.The first agent that broke wasn’t Vera. It was Giulia. I’d sent her into the background to file some vault notes while I worked on something else. She reported back fine. Searched the right folders, identified the right structure, confirmed the file paths. Then nothing. No new files appeared. I ran the session again. Same… Read more: The Demo Worked. Mine Didn’t.
- Reading Without RetentionOne year I ran the 52-book challenge. Logged on Goodreads, tracked in a spreadsheet. I finished 58. 18 of those were fillers, books read to keep the count moving, not because they had anything to offer. I cannot tell you the title of most of them. That is not a failure of memory. It is… Read more: Reading Without Retention
- What Bangkok Taught Me About SeeingI wasn’t trying to take photos. I was walking through Chinatown at night with no particular direction, camera over my shoulder, not thinking about light or composition or anything useful. Then a cat sitting on a pile of books in a small bookshop looked up at me. I raised the camera and clicked once. That’s… Read more: What Bangkok Taught Me About Seeing