I recently joined Voice, and a post there inspired me to write the one I’m republishing here.

2020 has been a terrible year for so many, and so has been for me, beyond what you’ll see in these photos, even if I’ve been lucky on the health side and certainly luckier than others. Despite that, it’s one year of our life, and what a year! We may be eager to start a brand new 2021, but 2020 will stay there to remember for decades.

My first trip of 2020 has been in a cave. A taste of real speleology. Narrow…

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. …

Inside Blogging now has more than 900 followers. It’s been only a side project, for four years. I couldn’t expect more. Nonetheless, I firmly believed in the mission and put countless hours into it.

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.

It failed. And it did for two reasons.

The first is that Medium didn’t help. …

If you’re gifted with multiple interests, you received blessing and doom at the same time. Especially in writing.

It’s a dangerous gift, to handle carefully. One that kept my mind busy for all my last reinvent years.

I now have multiple consolidated online identities — let’s say brands –, but it’s a never-ending journey, with pros and cons.

I’ll share my experience because I’m sure that others are in the same boat.

The reinvent big-bang

In my case, it all started with a blast. After two decades as a freelance, mostly in software development, I suddenly left my last position as an executive…