A Cambridge mathematician proved that a ‘one in a million’ event happens to each of us about once a month. Your impossible outage, your freak personnel situation: not freaks. Scheduled.
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Paolo G.
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.
People
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
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
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.
Latest Thoughts
View all posts →Alice didn’t fall down the rabbit hole because she had a plan. She fell because she was curious. I think there’s a lesson in that.
I went from two blocks and a lunch break to a Mondrian painting. Here’s how I structure my week — colours, shock absorbers, and all — so that when things go sideways, I can still breathe.