Posts

List of articles I’ve published on this website and Medium

Trading My Grades for the Northern Lights in Lapland

How a risk became a good memory

Medium 2025-06-25 Medium
Trading My Grades for the Northern Lights in Lapland

How The Last of Us Made Me a Better Writer

Three storytelling lessons from the Last of Us

Medium 2025-06-05 Medium
How The Last of Us Made Me a Better Writer

Camping in Iceland Out of My Comfort Zone

Facing my fears camping for the first time in Iceland

Medium 2025-05-13 Medium
Camping in Iceland Out of My Comfort Zone

High Altitude Trip in the Andes

My experience camping and trekking at 4,000 meters

Medium 2025-04-12 Medium
High Altitude Trip in the Andes

A Strategy to Integrate AI in Your Life

We often prioritize profits over well-being as a society, rushing to get the “next best thing” without analyzing possible consequences.This pattern is now visible in artificial intelligence. The future should be to regulate these tools. Instead, this competitive mindset, which makes us contend about who will rule the market, keeps...

Medium 2025-03-28 Medium
A Strategy to Integrate AI in Your Life

The Most Transformative Aspect of Meditation Is Learning to Detach From Emotions

When I started, I was lost in the sea of emotions. Meditation saved me; that’s why I’m so grateful.When I think about it, I always associate it with Nature. It evokes the same feelings in me: calmness, connection, and grounding. Honestly, without meditation, I don’t think I could cope with...

Medium 2025-02-24 Medium
The Most Transformative Aspect of Meditation Is Learning to Detach From Emotions

2 Ways to Be More Empathetic

A few days ago, I listened to a lecture by Professor Alessandro Barbero, an Italian historian and writer, on the difference between Memory and History, which are often confused but different.Take the day of April 25, 1945, known in Italy as Liberation Day from Fascism: every year we remember this...

Medium 2024-05-19 Medium
2 Ways to Be More Empathetic

How a Surprise Becomes a Story

“Why don’t you come to the theater tomorrow night? There’s a friend of mine playing…”It started like this: my sister asked me to go to the “Verdi Theater” in Gorizia. It was just before Christmas. The last time I had been to that theater was at one of the Caparezza’s...

Medium 2024-01-24 Medium
How a Surprise Becomes a Story

3 Ingredients for Success

“We did three months of rehearsals to make this cake in front of you” — A waitress to me in a restaurant in Cividale del Friuli, ItalyItaly is a strange place. You’re in a country where means of transport don’t work, services are lacking, and the state doesn’t help you...

Medium 2023-12-27 Medium
3 Ingredients for Success

2 Books Against Distractions

The other morning I was at home lying in bed pretending to be asleep. The fact is that I wake up early anyway, despite going to bed late; so after waking up, I stay in bed pretending to catch up on lost sleep. What do they say in such cases?...

Medium 2023-12-14 Medium
2 Books Against Distractions

Moving abroad - Guideline

Are you thinking about moving abroad? Or you just moved and wondering what steps you should do next? This guide can help you…

Stefano Lia Sep 24, 2022 7 min read
Moving abroad - Guideline

This is who I am

I’ve always thought that listening with empathy to the other’s opinions is incredibly valuable, especially if the opinion is different from yours. I don’t hide that keeping this idea was really hard after listening one show on Netflix…

Stefano Lia Aug 18, 2022 3 min read
This is who I am

Changes

I’ve just ended the most three intense weeks of my life: on March 11th I moved from Milan to Prague, accepting a job there and taking the leap to have an abroad experience.

Stefano Lia Apr 6, 2022 4 min read
Changes

The importance of meaning

About a few weeks ago, I finished reading a book that was really meaningful for the messages it gives. The book is the “man in search for meaning” by Victor e. Frankl. He was an Austrian psychiatrist who was deported to three different lagers during Nazis from 1942 to 1945.

Stefano Lia Jul 2, 2021 2 min read
The importance of meaning

Perché un sito web?

Ciao e benvenuto! Quando ho mostrato le prime volte questo sito web mi è stata posta la domanda: perché questo sito Stefano? Come mai tanta pena nel realizzarlo? In questo post - il primo in assoluto - cerco di fare un attimo chiarezza e rispondere a questo importante quesito, illustrandoti alcuni concetti che ho trovato interessanti.

Stefano Lia Mar 8, 2021 11 min read
Perché un sito web?