"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
It's my first time reading anything by Chekhov, and it might also be my last. I'm clearly not smart enough for this. Both "The Lady with the Little Dog" and "The House with the Mezzanine" are stories of unfulfilled or wrongly-fulfilled love, and so is the...
These days at Palazzo Reale, there's a tailored exhibition of paintings by Paolo Troilo. It lasts until September 13th and it's hosted in the so-called Princes Apartments, a wing rich with the layered history of Palazzo Reale and, by association, of Milan itself. Paolo Troilo (Taranto,...
Introduction: I Promised We'd Get Back to Plato Back in the second section of the previous article about LEGO® Serious Play®, I mentioned Plato and Socrates in passing, and then promptly moved on to Sutton-Smith. "I could start with Plato through Socrates,but we'll get back to that...
On unreasonable LOD requirements, dishonest tenders, and who really benefits A friend called me last week. BIM consultant, hands-on experience, knows what he's doing. The situation he described was nothing new to me, yet it hit the same way it always does. The call He's taking part in...
Arthur Machen (1863–1947), born Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was an influential Welsh novelist and essayist widely regarded as a forerunner of 20th-century Gothic science fiction and a pioneer of "weird fiction," so it's a man after my own heart. Machen lived most of his life in poverty...
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a 2025 science fiction comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) and written by Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying). It was released early this year, but I just got around to seeing it now....
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Bricks? You wouldn't believe it, but there's a question I get asked, in various forms, every single time I introduce LEGO Serious Play to a professional audience. Sometimes it comes as a practical concern: "Do we really need the LEGO,...
There is a question we often forget to ask, and it became the centrepiece of a three-hour workshop I delivered last week at Politecnico di Milano as part of a BIM Management master's programme. When an information model is delivered to the client,how do we know...
The collection I have, features three stories: The Student (Joseito), Applause (Kassai), and The Tale of Urashima (Urashimasan). They’re very different, not so much in mood (it’s Dazai Osamu after all) but in scope and purpose, and that makes this book a little weird. The first...
Carson McCullers (1917 – 1967) was an influential American novelist, playwright, and short-story writer renowned for her depictions of the spiritual isolation, identity struggles, and inner lives of outcasts in the American South. Her acclaimed debut novel is The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940),...
