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Internalising: when a concept stops being a tool and becomes part of you

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Internalising does not mean repeating until you memorise. It means bringing a concept so deeply inside that it becomes an automatism, something you no longer have to reach for when you need it. Over the past year philosophy moved from work into personal life as a genuine escalation.

Two recent episodes, a complex negotiation and a volunteering situation with an aggressive interlocutor, showed me what it means when Socrates, Dewey and Gadamer stop being tools and become part of you.

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Two Sundays later: internalisation moving forward

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Two missed Sundays, many themes emerged. The tiredness weekend brought something about acceptance to the surface. GIF, Giovani In Festa organised by Croce Verde, brought internalisation forward with force. Today I am not going deep, I am giving a preview. Because I am tired, managing a complex period, building.

And yet I feel happy. And writing it here reminds me of this when the days come in which I will find myself thinking the opposite.

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Dialogue, neurodivergence and dead branches: when understanding is not enough

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“This is just who I am, accept me.” How many times have we heard this phrase, or thought it ourselves. Sometimes it is honesty, often it is a mask. And when it intertwines with unrecognised neurodivergence, the defensive narrative that builds over time can become impossible to manage, for those living it and for those around them.

I learned the hard way that acting sooner, with respect but with clarity, is not cruelty. It is care.

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The void that creates: navigating chaos without fleeing it

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We keep fleeing the void, filling it with thoughts rather than facing it. And yet physicists are discovering that the quantum vacuum is not absence but potential, energy fluctuations that create. The same applies to the mind. This week was genuinely hard, the challenge is still ongoing.

But in the void I found something precious. And I am still here.

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Simplicity as a superpower: when less becomes more

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Complexity is a composition of well-structured simplicities. It sounds like a paradox, and yet two very different contexts showed it to me: structured video games like Soviet Republic, where I learned to focus on one system at a time instead of trying to master everything at once, and an unexpected video call with Marco, thrilled after trying a rough game I had built with AI.

Simplicity applied well creates great things.

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Cognitive restructuring: when the body hasn’t updated its software yet

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In a period of cognitive restructuring the greatest risk is mistaking tiredness for regression. Over the past few weeks I thought I was going backwards. Then metacognition read the moment: tiredness, heat, a body that has not yet updated its software to the mind’s new version. It is not regression.

It is adaptation. And the Go stones placed months ago are bearing their fruit.

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“I’m tired”: the answer that hides everything

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“How are you?” “I’m tired.” An answer we accept without stopping, that we give without explaining. But what does it really hide? Often much more than simple physical fatigue. When we say “I’m tired” hiding everything else, we hide our true state first and foremost from ourselves. And the real problem is right there.

Cognitive care also comes from small steps, and this is one of them.

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Volunteering: beyond a free Saturday afternoon

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Volunteering is not about filling a free Saturday afternoon. It has deep nuances, different methods, and a potential most people never imagine. Resilience and antifragility, the ability not just to resist but to improve through shocks, are the qualities of those genuinely changing this world from the inside.

And before saying “I do not have time” or “I do not have that money”, it is worth stopping and asking: what would those numbers do?

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“Philosophical dad”: when the framework enters a conversation with my son

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Marco calls me “philosophical dad”, and every time I smile. Last Tuesday he was having a difficult moment and wanted to talk about it. I listened, asked questions, shared examples. Without telling him to calm down, without lessons. Socrates, Kant, Wittgenstein entered almost without being named. In the end Marco walked into school calm.

And I saw the philosophical framework become even more mine.

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The philosophical framework for AI: when eight thinkers become sparring partners

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I skipped the Easter post because I did not have the insight. AI helps me, but with the human at the center: having it write something just for the sake of it would have meant betraying myself. Today I tell the story of how eight philosophers, Socrates, Kant, Hegel and the others, became an operational framework for dialoguing with AI and doing coding.

Not tools to apply, but a way of thinking to inhabit.

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