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Leonardo Paglia

Mission
My most visceral passion coincides with the desire to accelerate human progress towards prosperity and harmony.

I believe that technology is the most powerful tool to achieve this goal.

Story
I grew up in Parma, then I moved to Milan for college. I graduated with honors in interaction design at IED three years later.

Shortly after I founded esmerise.com and moved to Tenerife, where I currently, happily, live πŸŒ…

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Leo

How can I write something meaningful about myself? No one can define us, even ourselves.

What we can do is an approximation, based on the evidence about us that the universe reveals to us, built with the originator of approximations par excellence, our language.

This is the case because every sentence, every word, every phoneme is subjectively organized according to a vast, intricate, inscrutable map of emotional and rational associations, completely unique and created by the becoming of each individual.

One could say that we define ourselves through information that mainly serves the purpose of facilitating other people, and ourselves, to absent-mindedly contemplate some more or less fictitious version of us.

Who are we then, really?
I know nothing about you, apart from the fact that you are reading a text written by me, and that you are probably wondering who I am.

Who am I then, really?
I will borrow the words of a brilliant philosopher, while mysteriously concluding with them: β€œAll great men are play actors of their own ideal.”