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Just paying for stuff is boring.<\/p>\n

Making deals is fun.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Just paying for stuff is boring", "date_published": "2025-10-27T09:02:04+02:00", "date_modified": "2025-10-27T09:10:28+02:00", "tags": [ "life", "negotiations", "wealthlore" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:02:04 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "1537", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "1536", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/molini-di-triora-2022\/", "title": "Molìni di Triora in October 2022", "content_html": "

Blossoms:<\/p>\n

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Empty wall planter:<\/p>\n

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Nature all around:<\/p>\n

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Windows:<\/p>\n

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“Butcher”:<\/p>\n

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Rook:<\/p>\n

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Bench:<\/p>\n

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Inside a museum:<\/p>\n

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Profit-making prophet.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Profit-making prophet", "date_published": "2025-08-17T11:55:45+02:00", "date_modified": "2025-08-17T15:44:18+02:00", "tags": [ "tongue", "wealthlore", "wit" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:55:45 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "1534", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "1533", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/copypasta\/", "title": "Copypasta?", "content_html": "

No, cutpasta<\/i>!<\/p>\n

Cut pasta out completely!<\/p>\n", "summary": "No, CUTPASTA!", "date_published": "2025-07-14T20:04:20+02:00", "date_modified": "2025-08-06T13:11:17+02:00", "tags": [ "food", "wit" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:04:20 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "1533", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "1531", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/overload\/", "title": "Brain overload?", "content_html": "

Nap.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Nap", "date_published": "2025-06-30T17:26:48+02:00", "date_modified": "2025-06-30T17:26:21+02:00", "tags": [ "health", "sleep" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:26:48 +0200", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "1531", "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "1528", "url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/beeps\/", "title": "Beeps", "content_html": "\n\n\n
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The Giracolore<\/i> is a spin-art machine pertaining to the new popular tradition of Italian toys:<\/p>\n

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Raffaele Cesano, the Giracolore’s creator, asked me to make a book with its history and practical uses.<\/p>\n

“The Journey into Color” (Il viaggio nel colore<\/i>) is now the first book I have fully designed, and perhaps even my biggest design work yet. Its copies now come with every device put on sale.<\/p>\n

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The client<\/h2>\n

Raffaele is a schoolteacher-turned-toymaker. He’s especially good at crafting traditional toys and games, like spinning tops, smol carousels, and wooden acrobats. He is fascinated with color in motion.<\/p>\n

Process<\/h2>\n

Raffaele first gave me a bunch of material: pictures, informational texts, and stories. Some things would be repeated across four different texts, but each one would have something useful of its own. I read them all and then wove them into a fluent narrative. Every now and then, I would meet Raffaele to refine the text together. I also took some disc pics myself.<\/p>\n

I learned a lot about book design while working on this. For example:<\/p>\n