What shapes me beyond work

I keep a clear separation between my personal life and my professional work—yet they inform each other. These passions sharpen judgment, deepen calm, and elevate the standard I bring to leadership, AI, and experience design.

Introduction

I maintain a strict boundary between personal life and work. That separation is intentional: it protects focus, presence, and long-term sustainability.

Still, the two are connected. What I practice outside of work—rhythm, patience, craft, and attention—inevitably shapes how I make decisions as a CTO, CEO, and executive advisor.

Whether I’m learning a new language, teaching, traveling, riding, playing golf, or growing plants through hydroponics, the theme is consistent: calm standards, quiet discipline, and respect for process.

Core passions

Movement · Perspective

Travel

Travel reminds me that technology lives inside culture. Cities and hotels reveal how people experience time, comfort, and trust—often through details no one announces.

  • • Observing how service and hospitality shape perception.
  • • Studying spaces where architecture and history feel effortless.
  • • Creating distance to think strategically—more perspective, less noise.

Rhythm · Precision

Golf

In golf, progress can’t be forced. Results come from technique, patience, and a healthy relationship with error—quiet discipline over intensity.

  • • Every shot is a decision under constraints: wind, distance, lie, pressure.
  • • Improvement is incremental, built through feedback and repetition.
  • • Composure matters more than speed.

Trust · Care

Horse Riding

Horse riding is a silent dialogue. It’s not about control—it’s about trust built through consistency, presence, and coherence.

  • • Reading subtle signals and adjusting pace without imposing it.
  • • Learning that leadership blends firmness with care.
  • • Respecting rituals: small, repeated actions that create safety.

Language · Curiosity

Learning languages

Languages change the way I think. They sharpen attention, humility, and cultural sensitivity—skills that matter in leadership and in designing experiences.

  • • I enjoy learning by immersion: sound, rhythm, and context first.
  • • I keep exploring new languages—Italian is my current focus.
  • • Language is a form of respect: for people, markets, and nuance.

Innovation · Craft

Innovation (done quietly)

I’m drawn to innovation that lasts—where novelty serves clarity, reliability, and human outcomes, not headlines.

  • • Experimentation with restraint: small bets, fast learning, durable wins.
  • • A bias for systems that age well over trends that expire.
  • • Curiosity with accountability: proofs, not promises.

Education · Responsibility

Teaching

Teaching is a way to refine judgment. It forces clarity—explaining complex ideas with precision, without ego.

  • • I enjoy workshops and structured learning experiences.
  • • I care about adoption: models people can actually apply.
  • • Education builds leverage: one idea can elevate an entire team.

Nature · Patience

Plants & hydroponics

I love planting and growing—especially hydroponics. It’s engineering with life: balance, timing, and care create outcomes you can’t rush.

  • • Growth is visible proof of good systems and consistent routines.
  • • Small changes compound: light, nutrients, water, temperature.
  • • It’s restorative—and quietly disciplined.

Repeating values

What connects these passions

Boundaries

I keep work and personal life separate by design. The boundary protects focus, presence, and quality—on both sides.

Ritual

Well-designed routines—whether in sport, travel, or cultivation—create calm and space to think clearly and execute consistently.

Silence

Moments without noise are essential for strategy, learning, and trust. Without mental space, there is no judgment.

Detail

In luxury, nature, and technology, the details few notice are the ones that shape the experience and earn trust.

Respect

Respect for time, body, team, and end user—a constant in both how I live and how I lead.

A well-designed life

Strong boundaries make the connection healthier: personal life stays personal, work stays focused—yet the standards you practice in one inevitably influence the other.

For me, true luxury is not only a flawless outcome, but the quality of the process —calm, intentional, and built to last.