why a (minimal) blog

25 giugno 2026

recently i found myself wondering whether it made sense to start a blog, and at the same time what was holding me back from opening one; in the end, as one can easily guess, the reasons not to open it were clearly fewer than the reasons to do so. perhaps, in 2026, it might seem almost a slow and tedious waste of time, a stylistic exercise as an end in itself, but i believe it matters now more than ever. i felt a growing need for a space on the internet dedicated to giving voice to where the constant flow of my thoughts converges: partly to save them, so as not to lose them, as if it were a hard disk onto which i could empty my cerebral RAM; partly, conversely, to encourage a more ordered flow of thought and to pick out the best ones from the chaos of statistical noise that every brain produces. this blog therefore sets out to be a tool for making my thinking crystalline, developing new ideas, and rendering them public as well as permanent. it will be interesting, then, to watch the evolution of thought; i’d like to see the posts contradict one another, a sign of change and of thought evolving. but let’s get to the point: why should you (or rather, why shouldn’t you) read this blog?

i don’t think i’m the one who should answer that. i have no aim of reaching a large audience; my only aim is to make the thoughts of a young man accessible. by the way, a brief introduction: my name is luciano, i recently turned 20, i study at the politecnico di milano, i have passions in practically every field, i run competitively (later i’ll write some posts about my PBs too), and i’m experimenting a lot with AI, so much so that over the past month i threw myself into a little side project, alongside the summer exam season. the project is called swarmwage and it’s completely open source (you can find it on GitHub). this project is also one of the main reasons i decided to open this blog. the amount of information i’m learning daily is remarkable (and i believe that’s the thing that matters most at 20), and that’s why i like the idea of archiving it and, at the same time, making it accessible.

writing about what i learn also lets me fix the concepts i’ve learned more firmly in mind, something i find truly useful. there are many other topics i’d like to tackle, but i wouldn’t want to tear apart the attention span of those few (for now nonexistent) readers. so i’ll limit myself to one last observation on the nature of this blog, and it can be found in the title, between the parentheses. minimal. i want to make my thinking on this completely explicit: minimalism here is not aesthetic; it must be almost anti-aesthetic, it must bring the essence back to the words and to their content. no attention should be spent (it being an extremely scarce resource in 2026) on anything beyond the pure intellectual stimulation of myself and the reader, in the writing and in the reading. by this i don’t mean the blog should be ugly, simply that it must strip away that dopaminic ostentation we’re constantly subjected to.

i don’t want it to be any different from reading a book.