When I reset my life five years ago, the last thing I could have imagined was that years later I’d miss authenticity.

That’s because the new course of my life was precisely intended to restore it. I went through a whole year seeing quite nobody except my wife. A downsizing path that led me straight to the core of myself. A total reset. And a restart — or start — of my passions, like writing.

Then came the need for sustainability, and that’s another story, but still strictly connected with my true identity. My new life was going to be…

OMG, Lists?

Do you mean that the long-awaiting bookmarking/sharing system is there, Medium? Really?

Different lists, with notes, and public/private option?

Lists! Oh my… I can’t believe it. That’s my lucky day.

Medium, if you wanted to double the fee for my subscription, that’s the right day for asking.

Disclaimer: the content of this article has the sole purpose of disclosing the author’s opinion alone. Nothing in this article is intended to be a substitute for professional psychological, psychiatric or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

I’ve always been terrified of injections, and still am, up to a point.

With vaccines as the only weapon out of a pandemic, I guess I am a bit out of tune.

I’m a fit tall man, and I’m over 50. You can imagine what they think (and often say) when I tell them that they’d better lay me down for a simple vaccine.

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I opened a second Medium account, under a pen name, because I have things to tell that I can’t write under my own name.

When I started writing online, I decided that it was my own name or nothing. But life brings unpredictable turns. While I’m still convinced of my choice and still on an authentic path, I decided that it was time for an experiment with a pen name.

Writing with more freedom felt great but, soon, I also saw the limits of it.

Why a second account?

Someone, like me, may consider a second account for anonymity. Some stories are hard to…

We’re used to success stories.

Heroes go through any kind of challenge and eventually succeed.

Truth is that most candidate heroes, in the first deadly situation, likely die.

But nobody is interested in a 30-second failure story when they pay a ticket. Maybe they just paid the ticket in terms of attention. And nobody wants to disappoint them.

So, the hero wins. Or, at least, they have an appealing story to tell.

If you think it’s just about movies, look better at the Web.

What’s the most popular topic? Making money.

They show they’re successful and kindly advise you on…

Nimbus Note is one of the best note-taking&organizing products around, so that it convinced a picky productivity freak like me to switch all of his notes from Evernote.

Beyond organized notes, its flexibility allows you to combine knowledge base with productivity, maybe in the form of Getting Things Done, as we will see in this article. Combining tasks and reference material in the same product is especially convenient for personal productivity.

However, implementing a productivity system may not be obvious, especially in aspects like projects. Personal productivity is often a matter of the right compromises between completeness and simplicity. …

I firmly believed in the mission of inside Blogging, put countless hours into it, and it has now more than 900 followers.

The idea, that’s still dear to me and alive in my writing, was to share down-to-earth advice on blogging and, at the same time, show the dark side of a world that swallows millions of writers, giving back very few, usually the very few skilled in marketing.

But the project failed and you can know more in the full announcement. …