I Say No at Night, I Use the Same Tools in the Morning
At night I say no to my three-year-old who wants the tablet for a little longer. I say it for one specific reason, and from that reason a free book was born.
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87 essays · 2019–2026
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The Compliance Hourglass
A map of the Italian compliance market drawn from the inside: specialist advisory at the top, platforms at the bottom, the middle layer crushed between them. And the one specifically Italian piece—ACN—that bends the rules.
The Spectre We Are
A long reckoning with European digital regulation seen from the outside—by those who hate it—and a counter-reading from inside, by those who translate those rules into technical objects every working day.
The Contract's Deception
On why the software supply contract, as we have known it, has stopped being the central instrument of the relationship between vendor and client — and how much it costs to keep pretending it still is.
The Rise of the Compliance Engineer
On the figure now emerging from the gap between software engineering and European regulation, and on why almost no one is noticing in time.
The Specification Debt
On why the document that certifies the system ages worse than the code that implements it, and why the next generation of civil software-liability cases will be fought over the specification.
The Shape the Day Lost
There's a diffuse tiredness we don't know how to name. It doesn't come from doing more: it comes from living inside a time that has lost its shape. AI doesn't speed the activity up — it replaces it with another, and the body, calibrated over years, can no longer read the day.
The Shape of Constraint
Treating regulatory compliance as the adversary of the technical project means you haven't understood what the technical project is. An essay on the category error weakening Europe's software industry — and on how the European framework, read as a system rather than as a list, configures a structural competitive advantage for those who learn to inhabit it.
DPIA as a Genre, Not a Form
The EDPB's DPIA template, released in April, isn't a longer form. It codifies a form. On the shift from module to genre, and what changes for anyone who writes compliance as continuous writing practice.
Cruft, Not Patina
Buildings learn, Stewart Brand argued. Software, instead, accumulates comments that apologize. On why digital objects can't grow old — and what that says about the civilization that has put them at its center.
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