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AI illustrationWhen removing a block can help more than adding more
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AI illustrationJob interviews: the third golden rule, make yourself memorable
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AI illustrationDigital tools keep contacts, face-to-face meetings build agreements
Insights: Summary and key points · Glossary statisticsMontemagno argues that digital tools help people keep in touch and that meeting in person matters when reaching agreements and understanding what goes unsaid. Comparing one dinner with a hundred Zoom calls is hyperbole, not a verified...
AI illustrationSaying yes keeps you busy. Saying no makes you rich.
Insights: Summary and key points · Glossary statisticsMontemagno recommends choosing a few important activities and declining the rest. Reducing ten possible activities to two and invoking 80% of results illustrate his advice on focus: these are rhetorical heuristics, without a presented...
AI illustrationMusk’s flying car: would you really use it? #shorts
Insights: Summary and key points · Glossary statisticsThe short passage jokes about using a rocket-powered vehicle on Brighton’s seafront, shifting attention from actual use to the pleasure of knowing it would be possible. A Swiss Army knife used mainly for its blade and appliances with...
AI illustrationBetting on Netflix: folly or foresight?
Insights: Summary and key points · Glossary statisticsThe passage considers how difficult it can be to distinguish a vision ahead of its time from a mistaken project. Netflix is invoked as an example of imagining streaming before the infrastructure was favourable. The speaker stresses a...
AI illustrationCreating a website with AI: edits, publishing and work still to do
Insights: Summary and key points · Glossary statisticsMarco explores a demonstration website already created with AI, including appointments, a request form, copy and frequently asked questions. He shows that images and words can be changed by selecting them or describing the desired edit...
AI illustrationA costly signal: making visible the effort behind your skills
Insights: Summary and key points · Glossary statisticsMontemagno argues that the proliferation of courses and certifications has weakened a degree as a distinctive signal, without offering a guaranteed recipe for finding work. He introduces the costly signal: making visible an effort that...
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What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Editorial translation of the wording recalled by Marco.
Le Petit Prince
Context and sources
In The Little Prince, the fox speaks these words. Marco recalls them in Italian.
A notebook full of ideas. Something I wanted to find again. And a project that waited in a drawer for more than two years.