Italian version The word “karma” has now become part of our vocabulary. Francesco Gabbani won the 2017 Sanremo Music Festival with his song “Occidentali’s Karma,” and that same year, Fabio De Luigi and Elio Germano starred in the film “Questione di karma.”But where does this word come from? The concept of karma was present in Indian society long before the time of Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, who lived around 500 B.C. I have often heard people say, “It’s karma’s…
Italian version The Earth’s resources are not infinite. The debate over resource scarcity began in the last century, and the issue grows more pressing every year. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that we’ll run into trouble if we keep consuming certain resources at a rate faster than they can be replenished.Lately, I’ve been thinking about how our consumption habits are influenced by how much things cost us. I would go further: the cost structures associated with the use…
Italian version Not everyone is a parent, but each of us is a son or a daughter. I like to distinguish between being a parent and acting as a parent: being one is easy; acting as one is a complex, delicate, and important task. I believe every parent would have liked an instruction manual on how to behave. Every child is born with their own unique traits and grows up in different circumstances and environments, even within the same family.Raising…
Italian version In the category Math and numbers, in addition to topics related to mathematics, I decided to write articles that show us numbers related to the reality we live in. This is the first article of this kind. Several years ago, if I remember correctly at the end of the 1990s, I had the opportunity to attend a show by Giorgio Gaber, a famous italian artist. Gaber was a genius; his songs and monologues stimulated deep reflections on our…
Italian version In January 2025, I launched the website https://www.esperienzedivalore.it/en “Thoughts for a better world.”It was born from the desire to publish content that would stimulate positive thoughts and the search for common ground, in a historical period where we are constantly reached by stimuli that lead us to division, if not outright conflict. What is the outcome as we blow out the first candle?My first thought is that I have maintained my determination to produce articles in line with…
Italian version War and peace. The dilemma of human history on earth. With the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, our days and our thoughts are filled with images and words of war, which enter our homes daily through the media. Even our future is permeated with war, as world leaders compete to paint a threatening picture of what lies ahead. Shortly after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi uttered…
Italian version The last two centuries have been characterized by the introduction of extremely complex technologies that have radically transformed society, the environment, and the economy and, ultimately, the quality and development of our individual lives. In the last 50 years, we have seen a further technological leap forward due to the development of information technology, telecommunications, and robotics. At the pinnacle of this development is a set of technologies that we usually refer to as “Artificial Intelligence” (hereinafter AI)….
Italian version I started playing volleyball at the age of sixteen, in 1985. I immediately loved this sport, which is very comprehensive and in which Italy has excelled almost continuously since 1989. It was in that year that the Italian men’s national team unexpectedly won the European championship, kicking off a series of successes that led to that team being named “the generation of phenomena.” The coach was Julio Velasco. The same Julio Velasco who, after a career studded with…
Italian version Lately, I have often found myself reflecting on the similarities between fields of knowledge that we tend to consider distant from one another. This article aims to explore the similarities between the concept of impulse response in systems theory, the ABC system in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, and the principle of cause and effect in Soka Gakkai Buddhism. The figure immediately shows the essence of the analogy. The concept of impulse response is a key principle of systems theory, with…
Italian version I have been involved in building complex software systems for about 30 years. In 2018 I attended a business meeting in which a colleague talked to us about how to build systems that can withstand external threats. I remember that meeting well. Not only did I hear about antifragility for the first time, but I never thought in that context that I would hear a very profound consideration of the eternal dilemma of the relationship between life and…