Notes on Leadership, Systems, and Life.
Hi, I’m Paolo. I spend my life wearing different hats. I lead teams, I serve in the Navy, I parent three kids, I sail and hike and create and learn. This site is where all those threads meet.
This is my notebook in public. I write about leadership, systems, and insights, and about the everyday practice of building and solving problems.
Humans are strange. The way we love, fight, cooperate, and invent rarely makes sense. That's interesting. We tell stories to explain the unknown, we break rules just as quickly as we make them. Those contradictions teach us as much about others as they do about ourselves.
Products are puzzles. We try to make them simple, but they have rules, trade-offs, and a hundred unseen choices. We think we just build things, but we’re really shaping systems that guide how people act and think. Those hidden layers show how what we create also shapes who we are.
Perspectives are the lenses we choose. The same story can look right or wrong, fair or unjust, depending on where it is viewed from. Context shifts meaning, and holding more than one view at once is often the closest thing to clarity.
You will never meet an alien. Not because they don’t exist, but because the universe is structured, at a fundamental level, to keep you apart. And humans sometimes drift apart even when they’re physically close. Yet, we still reach out.
The world upgraded but our mental models didn’t. We’re trying to live 2025 lives with 1825 expectations—and wondering why everything feels off.
Life has no meaning. Your consciousness does. Here’s what that actually means.