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
- Can You Leave Your Software?On August 25, I asked Codex to search my notes for earlier work on digital ownership. It read the Markdown files directly from the vault. Obsidian wasn't part of the access path. That showed something narrower than ownership: the notes were accessible outside the application that organizes them. I used to judge software at the… Read more: Can You Leave Your Software?
- The Rule Didn’t Force the CheckOn July 27 I told my AI operator to open today’s notes. It launched Obsidian. What I meant was create the Markdown files for the day and start filling them in. The clarification took ten seconds. It’s recorded in that day’s learning entry under “Human corrections required,” and it’s why I started questioning where responsible… Read more: The Rule Didn’t Force the Check
- A Streak Is Not a RecordOn June 1, I picked a habit tracker and wrote myself a warning in the same note. The tracker was Streaks. I already owned it, so the test cost me nothing. It also fit Health and Apple Watch better than the alternatives I was considering. The warning was this: I’d bought Streaks once before and… Read more: A Streak Is Not a Record
- My Camera Wish List Became a Storage System for WantingNear Chinatown at night, I photographed a welder with the Fuji 90mm f2. Sparks came off the work while the surrounding light fell away from the sharp subject. The first-generation Fuji 56mm f1.2 gave me a similar result with a stray cat sitting inside a market stall, also at night. I can’t define “Fuji magic”… Read more: My Camera Wish List Became a Storage System for Wanting
- You Can’t Ask a Tool If You Still Need ItA tool can make a persuasive case for keeping itself without bias. The problem is the important context it cannot see.