Luca Bisi

Ordinary people

Antaeus was a giant whose unmatched strength came from maintaining constant contact with his mother, Gaea (Earth). As long as Antaeus remained firmly grounded, he was invincible. Hercules, however, uncovered this secret and lifted Antaeus off the Earth, breaking the giant’s connection to his vital source and ultimately defeating

AGI

The motto of this blog is Unearthing the essence. When I sit to write, I like to think that I embark on a quest to dig deep into the meaning of things. Metaphorically, I see myself as a paleontologist excavating to find the relevant bones to reconstruct a dinosaur while

Jump

I like to say that life is beautiful because it's unpredictable. Uncertainty is intrinsic in life, and there are always factors outside our control. Yet, we have some degree of maneuverability on a few variables. By playing with them, we can modify our exposure to the possible outcomes.

Christmas wishes

This time of year is ideal for celebrating family and friends, and I’m writing this post to do just about that. Looking back at 2024, most memorable moments were linked to experiences shared with enjoyable people. I previously underlined how I rediscovered the importance of companionship, and I continue

Productivity paradox

I remember watching an advertisement about a cloud provider listing all the productivity gains one would enjoy by using it: "so you free up time to do whatever matters to you." Technology indeed frees up time because it enables to achieve the same outcomes in less time. We

The other innovator

I previously wrote about innovation, which, in its essence, is trying something not done before in any field. Still, an interesting nuance is how the culture that defines a society innovates over time. Take the view of No taxation without representation that led to the American Revolution: it is a

Mission

I've previously stated that the general absolute risk is the extinction of the human species. Reflecting on the mutable properties of genetics, I now modify the human species term into human consciousness, defined as the awareness of internal and external existence. Still, the following question remains the same:

Coherence

In post n.1 of this blog, I stated that I built it to start making something entirely of my own. In fact, for a long time I have said that my dream job is being an entrepreneur because I see it as the figure in society who turns ideas

Experience

Wittgenstein's Ruler is a concept introduced by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. It states that: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The concept links to how

Less is more

While discussing with a colleague the length of a document, he came up with a quote by Blaise Pascal that made me reflect: I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. The value of writing concisely is that our cognitive constraints become an advantage:

Humanity

I often use the word human in my blog because it encapsulates what we are at the essence level. It is our common denominator, hence I agree with the essay author Nassim Taleb that, the worst thing that can happen to a person, is not the individual death or the

United States of Europe

The following is an analysis of the roots of the EU and one possible evolution. Geography In elementary school, I was taught that Europe is considered a continent, even if it is part of the same landmass as Eurasia, for socio-political reasons. The name Europe originated in ancient Greece to

Bottled Insights

One of the first courses during my bachelor's degree was microeconomics. One model outlined showed how profits should be non-existent in perfect competition. We know the world is far from perfect in everything, so it is no big deal if profits exist. Still, the inverse correlation between competition

Time

The beauty of the time-lapse photographic technique is that it shows the passing of time at an accelerated rate, truthfully representing how the world is something where stasis is impossible. Three considerations came to my mind on this constant movement. 1.     The trajectories extrapolated from the trends that can be

Optionality 2

This is a follow-up to my previous post on optionality. Reflecting on 2024, I was thinking about how to structure my efforts in the best way to maximize serendipity - the probability of good surprises. The second law of thermodynamics states that heat always flows spontaneously from hotter to colder

People make the place

After four months, today I'm leaving Philadelphia. My time at Wharton was pretty eventful, and overcoming the different challenges gave me a lot of confidence that great things are within reach. One takeaway from this experience is that people are paramount. What gives value to places are the

Italy

My strong Italian accent while speaking English makes the topic of Italy one of the first to be discussed when meeting new people. The reaction is almost always very positive, with common jokes about why one should ever be living outside of the country of La Dolce Vita. I experimented

Nihil sub sole novum

When I sat down to write for this blog, I kept having ideas that were already explored in previous posts. Then, it came to mind the saying Nihil sub sole novum - “Nothing new under the sun,” and I knew what to talk about. The last year and a half

Innovation

When I tell friends I am studying for a master's in Management of Innovation, I often get asked: “So, what do you study in practice?”. Sometimes, I find it hard to answer that question, hence the necessity to write it down. First of all, what is innovation? Its

Journey

While in Rotterdam, I got fascinated by the story of the pilgrim fathers. They started in the village of Leiden in the Netherlands, traveled to Rotterdam, then to England, and eventually set off for America aboard the Mayflower. Upon hearing the news of my upcoming studies at the Wharton School

Clementia

When Julius Cesar seized power in Rome, defeating Pompey and his supporters, he faced a dilemma: persecute all the people that opposed him previously or forgive them. He chooses the latter, and this attitude of mercy is then transposed to the goodness Clementia, usually depicted holding an olive tree branch.

Trade-offs

During my first year of university, I learned the term “dismal science” as a nickname for the discipline of economics. This has to do with trade-offs that seem intrinsic to the economic field and lead to zero-sum games with propositions like the Malthus population principle. That discovery didn’t make

Optionality

As my time in Rotterdam is reaching its conclusion, I find myself already projecting into the next adventure. In doing so, I remind myself that I would have never predicted (post) that I would be going to an exchange in the United States at Wharton just one year after beginning

Advice - Sam Altman

I believe it's better to think independently and rely on our judgment rather than seek advice too frequently. But, in the occasions in which it is sensible to search for it, I also believe that it matters a lot who is saying what: if something is said by

Hedonic Treadmill

I distinctly remember the question that the IELTS examinator recently asked me for the speaking part: “do you believe that money can influence happiness?”. It was a question that was so interesting to me that I stopped thinking about talking in a perfect English manner and focused on the content