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Why did you make this website?
The single biggest inspiration for building this blog has definitely been my friend Roberto Castellotti’s own website, which he made as a repository for both his projects and his thoughts: a place to express himself in a truly free manner. He does explain it in more detail, though: check out his space here – but be wary: it’s written in Italian.
Not long after he published his own website, I started stepping out of social networks. As featured on Now, I increasingly felt like mainstream social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were the home of unauthentic self-expression, in its philosophical sense: a place for people to value how they appear instead of who they are, to unhealthily show off – more on what exactly I mean here and here. Instead, I was looking for a place to express myself in a much more authentic way, free from the mediocre crowd that haunts social networks. So, I started stepping out of them: first came Instagram, then Twitter – and meanwhile, leaning towards a personal blog as the new expressive platform I was craving.
And creating this blog has really brought me many, many benefits along the way. Along with the perfect space for self-expression, it also proved to be a surprising path of self-discovery: having to write out information about myself forced me to dig deeper into my identity, to exactly rule out what defines me – as featured on About. Moreover, this whole project has been extremely impactful on my technical knowledge and skill about websites and web design: being a student in Computer Science too, building this blog with a service like Squarespace or Wix would have meant wasting a chance to push my boundaries and learn from it; on the other hand, taking advantage of a content management system like Wordpress wouldn’t have allowed me the flexibility I wanted for my beginner’s website.