HI, I am Massimo Curatella.
I am a Strategic Designer and a Facilitator.
I write about design, education, facilitation, and Systems Thinking.
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- Writing improves your memory
You remember better what you have written. Connect your brain to a more vivid past. Leverage on your rich memories: write them down. - Connect ideas now
Information hoarding is too easy. Capture and connect your new ideas now. There’s no other time to do it. - Writing builds your networks
Extrovert or introvert? Doesn’t matter. make your thoughts visible, you’ll grow your network. - Be less ambitious, be more consistent
Lower the bar and reduce expectations. Make your work easy to be done so that you cannot miss it. - Creative Loneliness
I can be creative when alone. Don’t let your time alone be wasted. Use it to write. - Write a lot to write well
Your first million words are the worst. Put in the repetitions and your writing will improve. - Writing is Thinking
Writing is thinking and if you cannot think clearly you cannot write. - The Journey is the Purpose
We should aim at following the process rather than being fixated with the goals. - One Year Writing: 30 Lessons Learned in 30 DaysI’ve decided to pay 50 USD to a stranger to commit myself to do what I haven’t been able to do on my own. Thanks to the Internet.
- A Facilitator, a Coach, and a Designer Walk into a Bar
And they learn together about design, facilitation, and complexity. How will it go? - Learning How to Learn, Book Review
Learning How To Learn talks about simple and effective practices to improve your ability to learn more efficiently and more effectively. - Writing Half a Million words in One Year
Today is the day I am writing for my 365th day in a row, for a total of half a million words. - Reflecting on Podcasting, Blogging, and Independent ResearchWhat’s the added value in transcribing and blogging about a podcast? How do you know when your research is valid, good, useful? How do you do research outside of academia?
- Simply Complexity Podcast with Kevin Richard and Massimo Curatella
How to understand & explain complex topics? It’s the impossible subject I’ve discussed in this podcast with Kevin Richard. - Trust and digital nomadism
My first experiment in publishing on the go, without a computer, on the sand. - Preparing for the Podcast “Making Complexity Simple”
How I leveraged on the Collective Intelligence to know better how much I don’t know, in preparation for a podcast interview. - How to transform a draft into a final article by mental distancing
Write a draft impulsively and without caring too much. Let it rest. Collect feedback. Then edit it and publish it. - More networked thinking
How I am evolving my Personal Knowledge Management workflow. The difference between reading and writing-while-reading. - Creativity, eclecticism and Personal Knowledge Management
Having too many ideas. Struggle in finding a common thread. Concerned about building an audience while being eclectic. Then: Curate sources and filter inputs. - Notes on creativity and productivity with Ness Labs Community
Great session today on creativity, inspiration, productivity, workflow with Anne Laure Le Cunff of Ness Labs
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Massimo Curatella
I am a Senior Experience Designer, a Facilitator, a Trainer, and an Educator.
I work as a Senior Strategic Designer in the fields of Service Design, UX Design, Interaction Design, User Research, User Interface Design, Usability Testing and managing small remote groups of designers and developers.
I the last 25 years I have been designing, developing, writing, speaking and teaching about digital technologies.
I am expanding my online and live Facilitation services to cover: Collective Intelligence Design, Systems Practice and Systems Change.
I aim at improving the well-being of people and the planet while promoting the sustainable adoption of new technologies and co-designing ecosystem-centered solutions. I facilitate learning processes by simplifying the complex.
I believe in Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking and Design Thinking and I feel I have never learnt enough about being more effective and efficient with those disciplines.
I am writing about my experience on this blog. Something I wanted to do for more than 20 years.
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I am based in Rome, Italy. Although I can travel I would prefer remote work.
MasterMinds Inspiring Me
Bruno Munari
An Italian designer with the gift of intelligence and kindness. He introduced me to Design Thinking for the first time.
Donella Meadows
A mother, among the many, of Systems Thinking. Read my notes on her book: Thinking in Systems. She taught me how to dance with systems.
Bret Victor
Interaction Designer, intends to invent a humane medium in which the thinkers of the next century will see, understand, and create systems.
Peter Senge
A father, among many, of Systems Thinking. “Think about forest, Max, not systems“. He said to me during a meeting.
Ken Robinson
Teacher, writer, researcher, adviser and speaker. An education systems revolutionary who can make you laugh. School failed us. Lets rebuilt it.
Shane Parrish
Helping you master the best of what other people have already figured out. Sharpen your mind with a Critical Thinking mastermind.