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

Free Thoughts /

“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

Free Thoughts, Pragmatism /

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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Fear: From Enemy to Fuel

Complexity, Free Thoughts /

Fear in everyday life is not something to eliminate, it is something to manage. Letting it overwhelm you makes it grow, mastering it turns it into fuel. The same applies to Jung’s Shadow: not to be fought but integrated. For months my dreams have been confirming this, almost lucid from the inside. The common narrative asks us to keep everything in separate compartments.

Real wellbeing begins when we stop obeying it.

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When the Gate fails: Philosophy applied, Mistakes included

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I failed Kant’s gate in a recent conversation, and that failure conditioned everything that followed. And yet something moved anyway. Because naming philosophical concepts strengthens and internalizes them.

Eight philosophers, one framework: not academic material, but tools for communicating better, understanding where you go wrong, and creating the conditions for certain Go stones to produce unexpected results.

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Demotivation: The Silent Cost of Those Who Truly Believe

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Demotivation hits even those who pour their soul into what they do, fight the status quo, and truly believe. It is not weakness, it is physics. Without allies and without a system, even the most determined people hit kilometer 20 of the marathon already spent, the stadium nowhere in sight. But a system changes everything.

And certain Go stones, placed with patience, show their value when you least expect it.

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Technology Kills Human Connection. Are We Sure?

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AI kills creativity, technology destroys human connection. We hear it constantly, but are we sure? At the playground with my kids, iPhone in hand and Claude Code running, I was chatting with other parents and playing with Marco and Amelia. The technology was working for me, I was building everything else.

The real tool was never the hardware. It was thinking.

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When the Status Quo Becomes Complicity: The Hidden Cost of Waiting for Others to Act

Complexity, Free Thoughts /

Biases are hard to uproot, but progress is possible. Even when it comes from uncomfortable places. There’s a silent and costly pattern: those who see the problem and wait for someone else to act. The erosion continues, sandbags keep stacking downstream, and the price is always paid by someone.

But in Go, every stone counts, even the ones that look still.

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