I started a new hobby: learning to draw. Attempting that with the drawabox course and “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” from Betty Edwards. Drawabox seems very good from a technical point of view but maybe a bit boring, so i bought that book too which is supposed to be more fun. We’ll see how far I can get!

I randomly ended up in a Masterclass by Tyler Jacobson today at Lucca Comics. And by randomly i really mean i walked into the wrong place… but it ended up being the most interesting thing i did today! His deep dive on how art works for designing fantasy worlds and characters was great. Also learned technical things like contrast > value > temperature > color. Super interesting

I'm (back) on BlueSky 🦋 at @alessandromarrella.com. Looks a bit more populated now!

Really experiencing the “alignment” problem with AI right now. Even when the task is data summarization in an objective way (x grew by Y%) different people expect the information to be presented in different (and slightly incompatible) ways

In this post I'll be going in a different direction compared to the posts I've written so far. It's been a long time that I have this thought going through my mind, hopefully it will make more sense (to me mostly) in written form. These thoughts center on the role optimism plays in my professional life.