About me
About Alessandro
A wandering path through tech, making, history and democracy — here’s the short version.
I’m a maker, writer and perpetual learner. I like building things, following my curiosity, and switching fields whenever the work gets more interesting.
I consider myself an inventor. I’ve invented a smart back panel to prevent back pain. It has an open hardware license, so it’s free to copy and use.
I love to write, that’s the main reason why I opened a blog my first time. You can find some short Italian novels on my old site.
I’m a tailor and a backpack designer. Here you can see some backpacks made by me.
I studied Information and Technology at high school. I had to repeat one year, I ended up leaving high school.
I worked as a system administrator for a big company, then I decided that I was wasting my life and I went back to study IT.
The world has something wrong: I decided to look at the past to be able to make the right step in the present, so I studied History at Università degli studi di Milano.
I love the Internet World and the sharing philosophy. I love blockchain (the technology), it makes easy what otherwise would be impossible. My History thesis is about blockchains, and it is published here in full — you can also download the original PDF.
I’m very interested by the opportunity that technology offers in terms of democratization of the entire society, that’s why I created Democracy Routes.
Oh, I also write on my old blog www.9minuti.it, and I do online chats with university professors, writers, politicians and other people I find interesting.
Watch a conversation on YouTube
What I’m working on
The four things taking most of my time right now are the Democracy Innovators podcast, Agentic Party, Democracy Routes and Globstory. Everything else I have built, proposed or tested lives on the projects page.
Say hello
The easiest way to reach me is the contact page — there is a form there, and a link to book half an hour if you would rather talk.
You can also find me on Telegram at @chiocciolab, or on Matrix at theragehero@matrix.com.
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