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Photography, Productivity and AI

Draft and Focus

Long-form notes on photography, productivity, and AI. Plain English. No filler.

Long-form notes on photography, productivity, and AI. Plain English. No filler.

I’m Andrea. Italian, based in Bangkok since 2022. I work as a Service Delivery Lead, focused on AI, RAG, and agentic projects: the production side of generative AI for enterprise clients. On weekends, street photography on Fujifilm and a steady reading habit. This is where the three threads meet: AI as a tool that compounds, productivity as systems thinking, and photography as a way of seeing the work clearly.

The bar for what gets posted here: it has to be useful, specific, and honest about what I don’t know. If something is uncertain, I say so. If the topic deserves length, the post earns it.

Latest posts

  • The Asshole Label Is Not a Strategy
    I have joined meetings while looking at another screen, thinking about the next task, and only half listening. I finished Robert I. Sutton’s The Asshole Survival Guide less interested in identifying the assholes around me and more worried about how easily I could act like one without noticing. That wasn’t comfortable. I like to think… Read more: The Asshole Label Is Not a Strategy
  • What Survived 90 Days of AI Use
    On September 11, I built and tested a negotiation-prep skill against two fictional situations. It became Day 090 when I closed the missing log entry two days later. The Outcome field says Worked. The Reusable field says Needs refinement. I haven’t used it for a real negotiation. That split is the clearest result of the… Read more: What Survived 90 Days of AI Use
  • The Fix Moved the Work
    Every time I changed one part of my notes system, the edit usually finished before the job did. I still had to remember which dashboard, map, log, or context file now disagreed with it. If I missed one, the next session started from stale information. On July 7 I turned that follow-through into a workflow… Read more: The Fix Moved the Work
  • Can You Leave Your Software?
    On August 25, I asked Codex to search my notes for earlier work on digital ownership. It read the Markdown files directly from the vault. Obsidian wasn't part of the access path. That showed something narrower than ownership: the notes were accessible outside the application that organizes them. I used to judge software at the… Read more: Can You Leave Your Software?
  • The Rule Didn’t Force the Check
    On July 27 I told my AI operator to open today’s notes. It launched Obsidian. What I meant was create the Markdown files for the day and start filling them in. The clarification took ten seconds. It’s recorded in that day’s learning entry under “Human corrections required,” and it’s why I started questioning where responsible… Read more: The Rule Didn’t Force the Check