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:
- 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
- Is your idea new?
History could save you a lot of time or could make you earn a lot of money. How much do you know about history? - There are no problems
When a problem can’t be solved, it’s not a problem. When a problem can be solved, it’s not a problem - Reflecting on my current Personal Knowledge Management Workflow
Writing free-flowing daily is still essential, but it’s like playing scales to learn piano. I need to prepare for a concert. - The Most Basic Form of Mind Control is Repetition
Isn’t it? - Meeting strangers like they were good old friends
I like meeting strangers online, especially when they are eclectic, diverse, and sometimes clueless as I am. - Seed your knowledge to grow relationships
Find the “farming ground” to “seed” your knowledge by contributing value. Give more than you take. - Acknowledging illusory defeat
It doesn’t matter how much you care about something. Words are cheap. Facts are what counts. - Networked Thinking: an update on my Second Brain / Zettelkasten / Mental Garden
More notes = more ideas = more potential new ideas connecting them. - The 1-2-3 Feynman Technique of learning
The best way to learn is to teach. One of the best ways to teach is to follow the Feynman Technique of learning. - Like sand piling up on the shore
Building sand castles on the beach is like creating ideas. Go to play with sand. Now. - 60 Times 60. Refining my daily publishing strategy
I am celebrating my 60th daily publishing in a row, but I am not satisfied with my long-term publishing strategy. - The Note-Taking Nouvelle Vague
In the world of P tools, there is a tsunami of new software applications to manage note-taking and note-making - Artificial Intelligences are children to be educated
What’s the boundary between the usefulness of the suggestions that you receive and the information you have to provide to get them? - Creativity preparation rituals: infallible!
Prime your brain with the ritual of preparation. Nothing can stop you when you’re cleaning up your mind and your environment to start doing creative work. - Find and give meaning
Find your answers, build on top of what others have already learned, and experiment by minimizing risks while maximizing the learning. - Rebranding the obvious
Why calling something already existing, known, and named with another name? - How to be a Systems Thinker: simple steps
Being a better Systems Thinker is all nice and good but how do you manage to do it in our chaotic lives? - Celebratory rituals define yourself
Questioning the deep motives behind your celebration shatters your identity from the foundations. It’s a disruptive act to redefine yourself. - Minimize unintended consequences by thinking in systems
When you obtain effects you didn’t want and you did not expect, following your actions, you are experiencing unintended consequences. - Keep on writing
50 daily blog posts published. Let’s do another 50.
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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.
These are some people inspiring me.