Conversation Agent - Valeria Maltoni

Read Different to Think Different

Is there a good way of knowing things you can use? I've been asking myself this question more frequently as of late. On one hand, you can train yourself to ask better questions. Which is especially useful about topics that are right under everyone's nose. Take the internet, for example. We consider it infrastructure. Like with the roadways, we rarely challenge the changes to it. But this is failure of the imagination (or pure laziness). Wondering about the premise could give you a new frame of reference. So I asked on your behalf: Is the Internet a significant break from... Read more →

Philosophy as a Lens to Understand Money... and Yourself

“The philosopher's job is to be an interface between things that would not normally communicate with each other. We think about policies, strategies, business models, priorities: they are all open problems, where the philosopher has his perfect place.” Oxford University professor Luciano Floridi considers himself a digital philosopher. Digital communication has become a much greater part of our lives. And some of the best strategists I've worked with did use philosophy as a lens to make sense of things. His statement also bears with my own experience. For example, when I taught advanced digital marketing and communications to master students... Read more →