the log of paolo gianrossi

You might recall that exponential growth is really super crazy fast. This is true with rice on chessboards, with interest rates, and with pandemics among other things. Oh, and with computers. If you’re even slightly interested in computer stuff, you…

You probably heard it a million times: “this is growing exponentially!”. That’s often used to mean, “this is growing really fast”. But most people struggle with getting the feel of how actually fast exponential is. There is a very old…

You can always summarize a job role into two bullet points. That's it. There will be more nuance and complexity, but when uncertainty strikes, you can always refer back to those two points.

I've been managing teams on and off for more than 10 years. It came with a lot of lessons and brought a lot of humility. Here are 6 things I have learned about team leadership.

I used to have a great boss, many years ago, who had consistently around 15000 unread emails in his inbox. His approach was too scary for me to ever adopt, but I must admit it had a certain coolness factor.…

For whatever reason, starting a new year makes it easy to sit back, review the past, and make new year resolutions. Must be the counters resetting, or the little break people typically get from work, even if it’s just for…

One Christmas morning – must have been more than 30 years ago – my dad produced a box. In the box, was a Commodore 64. The 8 bit home computer was the first computing machine that made it into our home,…