Designer at Automattic.
Based in Milan, Italy.
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Farewell, Lourdes!
Lourdes was born to immigrants who traded Italy’s scarcity for a Brazilian field, and she was hoeing one when Paulo first noticed her. Here’s the goodbye we didn’t get to share. More
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A Season with Shakespeare: My 2026 Readings
I came to Shakespeare late. This year I read six of his plays from a secondhand Italian-English collection, and designed a new AI cover for… More
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The Odyssey: The Mother of All Hotdog Epics
In 1947, Black Narcissus put its leading man in shorts and sandals on a tiny pony and lost nothing for it. In 2026, The Odyssey… More
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The Odyssey: The Mother of All Stories, by Nolan
This review ends with a thumbs-up for the 2026 film, but it begins with criticism: What happens when a three-thousand-year-old poem is retold without Homer? More
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An Old Kind of Intelligence
Holding tight, letting slip: A week with Claude Code suggested that an old Greek word fits this new creative work better than Productivity. More
2026 World Cup
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Long Live Football: Football Won
A match where only one side wanted to win. It took patience, effort, and composure to avoid being drawn into the fights the other side started. In the end, they succeeded: a team with no… More
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Long Live Football: Associate or Die
FIFA and sports brands will tell you stars win trophies. Don’t believe it—that’s the big Football lie. More
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Long Live Football: A Red Card Is a Red Card
Red cards can be harsh, soft, or even incorrect, and the game accepts them all because the punishment is blind. What happened at the 2026… More
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Long Live Football: The Goal He Didn’t Score
The team that scores more wins, so the goal is football’s highest unit. The only thing that can exceed it is the wit that produces… More
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Long Live Football: A Cooling That Uncools
Football is the rare big game that never stops its clock, allowing momentum to build until halftime interrupts it. This summer, it is pausing once… More
Most Read Stories
Readings
After loving a book, I design its covers to make it forever mine. More.
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The Tempest
William Shakespeare, 1611.
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967.
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Circe
Madeline Miller, 2018.
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Uno, nessuno e centomilla
Luigi Pirandello, 1926.
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Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare, 1599.
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M: The Son of the Century
Antonio Scurati, 2018.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson, 2017.
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Fascism, a warning
Madeleine Albright, 2018.
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Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man
Barbara Reynolds, 2006.
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Damn Good Advice
George Lois, 2012.