glorious morning from Italia

What are cheaper alternatives to Kit and beehiiv 🐝 ? Their pricing is crazy just for sending emails. Eg with Kit it’s like $800+ annually for 5k subs. Substack is good but not really a newsletter system (no automations, sequences etc).

deciding between portugal, spain, italy and greece feels like choosing between different versions of myself. each place calling to a different part of my soul. the nomad life is easy—you're always an outsider. but choosing to belong somewhere? that's the real courage.

been shooting more with my fuji. funny how we obsess over perfect images when life itself is a beautiful mess. the scratches on a negative tell more truth than any polished perfection ever could.

AI photography isn't "cheating" any more than the camera was "cheating" for painters in the 1800s. new tools always face rejection before revolutionizing art. the question isn't if it's valid but what meaning you create with it.

The Italian Moka Pot is designed in such a way that if you pour too fast, you’re going to spill the coffee. If you rush through everything in your life you will spoil the experience and miss the chance to enjoy it.

The reason we're all so damn obsessed with aesthetics is because we're starving for beauty in a world that prioritizes efficiency. Beauty is inefficient by design. It asks us to linger, to waste time, to be unproductive.

Fear of not belonging is the most universal human experience. We're all outsiders somewhere.

Sometimes I wonder if all this searching for meaning is just a distraction from the simple truth that we're here to experience beauty and connection before we die. Everything else is just commentary.

maybe the entire idea of "finding home" is flawed. perhaps home isn't a place but a reconciliation with the parts of ourselves that feel like they don't belong anywhere.

In Sicily right now Ask me anything

Starting to believe that half of what we call inspiration is just permission—seeing someone else do the thing you secretly want to do and realizing it's possible for you too.

Spent years chasing external validation only to realize the only approval that matters is the quiet voice inside that says "this is true" when you create something honest.

Marketing experts telling you to "find your niche" are missing the point. True originality comes from the intersection of multiple interests. The wider your inputs, the more unique your outputs.

Finding more wisdom in the negative space of my photographs than in the subjects themselves. What's excluded says more than what's included. True in art. True in life.

Most people aren't afraid of failure. They're afraid of being seen failing. Once you realize the difference, everything changes.

The entrepreneurs obsessed with scaling are missing the beauty of depth. Not everything valuable grows outward. Some things grow downward, like roots. Invisible but essential.

the places we think we belong rarely want us. the places that want us, we rarely think we belong. maybe belonging isn't about the place at all.

The most successful people I know aren't grinding 18 hours a day. They're taking long walks, having 3-hour dinners, and protecting their creative space like it's sacred. Because it is.

The hidden cost of the digital nomad lifestyle: you get really good at saying goodbye. Each departure gets easier. Until one day you realize it's not just places you've learned to leave behind, but people too.