About
Welcome to my website!
Feel free to read that as Dialogue, Dilemma, Design, since that’s roughly the shape of what follows: a dialogue between many parts of me, a dilemma that never fully resolves, and the design work that stems from trying to reach a synthesis.
This is a website for all those controversial ideas that are at the intersection between people and technology, My goal is to gather personal essays, thoughts and original tutorials in one single place for the world to see, but also for the future me.
I don’t have a regular posting schedule, but if you reeeaallyy want to know when the next article will be published, just reach out to me.
After a few years on Wordpress, I chose to refurbish this website on Codeberg, but its name didn’t change. My website is called itsnotdata.com for a specific reason. Most of what I work on lives inside technology, systems, platforms, the infrastructure that increasingly decides how people can or cannot organize themselves. My work starts with listening, noting down, creating evidence, data, models, requirements, structure from chaos, but it does not end there.
Sometimes we tend to underestimate the reasons why people will resist a system that looks perfectly rational on paper. Over the years, I learned that communicating is about bringing clarity on values, understanding what others fear losing, what we all need to hear before trusting a new rule.
A huge part of what I look for and do is driven by the belief that communities and organizations alike need a structure that actually reflects what they value, and not just what is easiest to enforce (with or without technology).
I came to this the long way. I studied sociology first, drawn to something I had already been living for years through mutual aid societies, associations, and communities. People choosing to keep showing up is what makes a venture successful and fulfilling in the first place, but it is rarely what keeps it standing on its own.
The role of passionate members of associations, coalitions, communities is something vital for interconnected societies worldwide, a dynamic you can find from Toronto to Rabat, from Rome to Mumbai, from Kigali to Port of Spain. Some need firm rules, some need the right incentives, some need nothing more than a space where an idea can circulate and people can find each other around it.
I studied management second, and the approach there was heavily different, and I did not always like it. In certain contexts, people become numbers you can nudge, incentivize, or constrain, and that most of what actually moves them is hierarchy, clear signaling, and someone willing to make operational calls that are not always comfortable. I still think many organizations default to this without questioning it, incentives quietly pointed at profit while values stay implicit and unspoken. But at the same time, I stopped pretending that shared intent is enough on its own. Someone has to design the structure, rules, incentives, roles, that lets people act on what they believe.
That is the work I actually do, and it splits more unevenly than a single formula suggests. In professional, execution-driven environments, I build requirements, data models, and governance frameworks for organizations that need a clear operational picture before they can move. In associational and volunteer work, spread across more than a decade, my contribution took different shapes depending on what the moment needed: I ended up on the organizing committee of Youth IGF Italy, co-founded a hackerspace with friends where nothing existed before, and took on smaller, quieter roles elsewhere, sometimes building something concrete, sometimes just showing up because it mattered.
Some of these stories and my thoughts have their own space elsewhere on this site.
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