Hi, I am Massimo Curatella.
I am a Strategic Designer and a Facilitator. I write about design, education, facilitation, and Systems Thinking.
Some highlights from my website curatella.com:
- What I have learned by writing 100 daily articles in a row.
- One Year Writing: 30 Lessons Learned in 30 Days. My challenge to publish 30 atomic essays in 30 days.
- Writing Half a Million words in One Year. I have been writing for my 365th day in a row, for a total of half a million words.
- The habit of building habits
- Notes. A growing collection of notes, reflections, and connections.
- My notes about Systems Thinking
- All articles about Design
- All articles about Facilitation
- All articles about Writing
- All articles about Systems Thinking
Read My Latest Articles
- Reflecting, Again, On My Daily Writing Habit PracticeI’m carving back my space for private writing. It’s a different need in a different context. I have nothing to demonstrate to anybody.
- Hypothetical Backwards RemediationI write daily and I find immense benefits in writing but it is hard and harder.
- Morning GoldenWriting in the morning feels more focused and productive. Not directly related to daily blogging but that’s acceptable.
- Happy Writing About WritingSo this is a meta-post, it’s how I feel about the fact that I wrote, today.
- A.I. isn’t as Advanced as I Need It, Yet.Hemingway, give me the will to write.
- Curated WritingToday I made an experiment. I am not going to publishing anything I am not going to feel comfortable with. That’s it.
- The Daily Pain of WritingThe more I keep on writing daily. The more I feel like I don’t want to do it. I have made a commitment. I will write and publish daily on my blog for one year….
- Estimation and planningWhen estimating a change request you need to be careful with the remaining planning
- Trust is Expensive and DelicateWorking to build trust is a slow and careful process requiring focus and resources, continuously.
- The Value of ExperienceThe experience I made in a technical field came useful today when I had to explain to a peer how to face a certain context. I realized I had a clear vision about the problem,…
- Boutique, BarriqueLa ferita è dolorante, La cura meticolosa, Il fuoco latente, Ma proprio non è cosa. La delusione è cocente, L’ardito riposa. La trama lucente Nell’immaginazione, sontuosa.
- Quiet Nights and Quiet DreamsToday I enjoy greater tranquility but I observe dormant dreams and storms. It is true that while you imagine a different life, life, the real one, happens to you. I find it hard to let…
- Strong Feelings, Strong MemoriesThe power of trauma engraves events deeply in your memory. I can clearly see what’s around me, what my friend is saying on the phone and the images passing through an old TV set broadcasting…
- Free-Flowing Reflections on my Writing PracticeWhat I like and what I don’t, about my daily writing practice.
- Dissatisfaction as a Motivation to ChangeFeeling like you should be doing different things, or getting different results can be a good force for change.
- Strategy and PlanningKeeping the right balance between abstract, speculative thought and practical, executive planning requires careful dedication and self-awareness.
- Learning PainsAnd it is so good.
- Creating Choice by Managing your Personal KnowledgeTo create choices I need information and the capability of making connections between them. PKM helps.
- Trees of the past and futureAt every moment of my life I’m at the intersection of two trees, one made of all of the events occurred and the decisions I made which brought me to today and the other made…
- Beauty is in How it Worksa beautifully designed object is something that works well, for the purpose it has been created for.
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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.
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