About the posts and the author
Hilde's photo of myself from a bus in Florence
This is Pietro Polsinelli’s software blog, where I randomly and incoherently post about several topics.
The main categories of posts are:
- developing and marketing two new online services
- concerning IT and my work as developer and marketer
The part concerning litterature is continuing on another blog.
Short facts about me
I was born in Pavia in an Anglo-Italian family. I was interested in programming languages since I was 14 (it was 1981), at the time I was in London and I discovered the existence of accessible computers, the Sinclair ZX 80-81. Since then I have been interested in programming languages, recursion theory, mathematical logic, models of natural language, axiomatizations of mathematics, and studied mathematical and philosophical logic at various universities. I also tried to work at theorem proving in set theory as a pure mathematician, but I had no real talent for that.
I currently live in Florence with my partner Laura, a graphic designer, and our two children, Maia and Enea.
Professional
Currently I am a Java developer and software marketer at the IT company I founded in Florence with three friends in 2001, Open Lab, of which I am quite proud, as about 15 people work there, producing many wonderful things. I am working full-time on four products: Teamwork project management software, which is by now a quite successful project, adopted all over the world, and used daily by more than 3000 people to manage their work, Patapage, BugsVoice, and a new personal productivity tool.
I have a twitter stream mainly of my working activity: http://twitter.com/ppolsinelli .
Personal
I have practiced Shintaido, a body movement art, since about 1998.
I have for many years and still am quite interested in the phenomenological branch of philosophy, and also in contemporary philosophy in general. Recently I became interested in literary criticism, and started writing novels and short stories.
In 2009 Matteo Bicocchi and myself started an online “publishing house”, called Mist&Fog. Some short stories in Italian here.
My older blog: http://ppolsinelli.blogspot.com .
You can write me at ppolsinelli at gmail dot com.
