4 October 2026

Is the curriculum vitae dead?

Is the curriculum vitae still the right tool? How much does online reputation matter?

For over a century, the curriculum vitae has had a very simple task: to tell who we are in the world of work. Education, experience, skills, positions. Everything arranged in order, preferably chronological. The curriculum, in fact, stems from a particular idea of a career: a linear, orderly path and, above all, one that can be told through a sequence of stages. First education, then the first job, followed by subsequent experiences and growing responsibilities. But today’s professional trajectories look less and less like this linear model.

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16 September 2026

Context collapse and the online disinhibition effect: why we have no filters on the Internet

The Internet presents a curious paradox. We can publish something in front of the potentially largest audience we have ever had. Yet we often communicate as if that audience did not exist. A personal statement written on impulse. A very harsh judgment about a person we do not know. A comment we would hardly make during a dinner with twenty strangers sitting at the same table.

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30 August 2026

One more: the metamorphosis of the user in the age of infinite scrolling

A video lasts thirty seconds. The next one fifteen. Then a photograph, a comment, a news item. Another video. One more. Twenty minutes pass. Sometimes an hour, often two or three. Infinite scrolling, or endless scrolling, is the mechanism used by many digital platforms to continuously show new content as the user scrolls down the page.

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17 August 2026

Buy one click, Buy Now Pay Later: Invisible money

Money is not only an economic instrument: it is also a cognitive and social object. The way we use it influences our perception of value, spending and debt. For centuries its representation was material: coins and banknotes had weight and substance, and paying meant physically transferring value to others.

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27 July 2026

From I Love Shopping to I Love Delivery

Over the past twenty years, e-commerce has become an integral part of everyday life. According to the B2C eCommerce Observatory of the Polytechnic University of Milan and Netcomm, online purchases in Italy will exceed €62 billion by 2025, involving over 35 million people. It is no longer an alternative purchasing method, but a widespread behavior that spans generations and social classes.

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1 June 2026

If the Internet Were a Restaurant: The Psychology of Free

Have you ever wondered why the services we use daily aren’t paid for? Probably not. And this lack of demand is, in itself, a sociologically interesting phenomenon. Indeed, we often take it for granted that this free service is somehow owed, almost an acquired right, or even a merit.

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19 May 2026

Token poor

There’s a new digital asymmetry emerging in our daily lives. It’s not a lack of connectivity, nor technological illiteracy in the classic sense of the term. It’s something more subtle, and in some ways more revealing: running out of tokens .

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3 May 2026

Echo chambers and microtargeting: Digital polarization as a conditioning tool

Digital polarization is one of the most pervasive phenomena in contemporary communication. It is not simply a side effect of online interaction, but a genuine strategy that draws on the mechanisms of crowd psychology. When Gustave Le Bon published “The Psychology of Crowds” in 1895, he identified key characteristics of collective behavior: reduced critical thinking, emotional amplification, and suggestibility . He could not have imagined a virtual, fertile declination of these dynamics in digital spaces.

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15 February 2026

Liquid Reputation: Managing Your Professional Identity Online

For generations, work meant continuity: skills consolidated over time through linear and predictable trajectories, stable wages, slowly evolving tools, processes that improved but never revolutionized. The specialization acquired through apprenticeships represented a lasting investment, valid for decades.

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17 January 2026

The Hyper-Mediation of Knowledge: When LLMs Replace Search Engines

For over a decade, Google has been the go-to source for any online search or in-depth analysis in Europe. To find a news item, you simply typed it into Google and selected, in most cases instinctively, one of the first three results. During the same period, for public institutions and private companies, organic SEO was the key tool for dissemination and visibility.

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7 January 2026

Digital Presenteeism: Always Available

The primary purpose of this blog is to anticipate and highlight some of the social changes brought about by the Internet. This is certainly the case with my 2015 article on smart working. In that article, I presented smart working as the ideal solution for balancing professional and personal life, quoting a couple of quotes:

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23 November 2025

Professional Upgrade through Artificial Intelligence: Is it possible to improve skills and work output through AI?

While the public debate on artificial intelligence oscillates between utopian and dystopian visions, focusing on the reliability of automatically generated information and the risk of replacing the most repetitive jobs, a quieter and more widespread transformation—made up of billions of daily interactions with AI—is already redefining the contemporary professional landscape.

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24 August 2025

From hate speech to AI mediation: a possible path?

When I started writing this blog, I expected social media to present a completely different communication landscape. I never imagined that, fifteen years later, the internet would be populated by so many serial “haters”: individuals instantly ready to raise their voices, offend, and incite verbal violence.

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