Author: Claudio Santori

  • Abitudini

    Sono italiano 100% ma da quasi 15 anni vivo all’estero, prima a Helsinki in Finlandia, poi a Vilnius, in Lituania e ora di nuovo a Helsinki (UPDATE 2023 – sono finito a New York e poi a Miami)Queste sono le mie abitudini. L’idea è di creare una pagina per ogni abitudine, spiegando un po’ la…

  • Sales and Dating

    Buckle your seat – this is going to be long – around 133 pages in Google Doc. I have been in a sale role in 2015, and the more I was being a salesperson, the more I saw the similarities with dating. So I decided to write a book. Fortunately, in 2017 I found my…

  • How to plan a wedding

    Planning an Event: Wedding Case Study My wife and I used technology exensively to plan for our wedding.  Imagine the wedding First we used Pinterest to agree on how we both visually saw the wedding We created specific Pinterest boards and collected as many beautiful pictures as we could find. It was easy to align…

  • Can Technology Help Love?

    I wrote these notes in 2019 and never published them. I wanted to make a book out of it, but nothing ever came out. So here you have them….hopefully you find some inspiration. How happy couples use technology to love each other even more Messaging with your Partner My wife and I spend a lot…

  • Quotes

    From How I Met Your Mother You can’t talk yourself into falling in love. It doesn’t take days of deliberation. When it’s real, you know pretty quickly, and with absolute certainty. I had forgotten that, but I was about to be reminded.”-Ted Evelyn Mosby (s07e02 -finale “Clarity is the elimination of mental clutter. Agility is…

  • Best Online Radio Stations

    I am into Jazz, Soulful house, and in general very good music. NOTE: half of these links might not even work – but here some online radio station I love or I loved – these were links I collected on the early days of Internet. BTW…if you foudn this page, you might like Radio garden…

  • How I read 52+ books every year

    I started adding all the books I wanted to read, and they were around 500 books. What I realized, is that if I kept reading 5/10 books a year, it would have taken me 100 years to get to all my list – time I did not have. A few tricks to read a lot…

  • The Ultimate Guide on Being a Parent

    While I am not a doctor, a pediatrician, a nutritionist, or a psychologist, here are my learnings from having been a parent of two kids for the last 2 years, and read 30+ books on the subject. Calm Down – It’s going to be wonderful Most parents will make sure to tell you how difficult…

  • How to learn any foreign language

    Hi – I speak Italian, English, Spanish, I used to speak Lithuanian, Finnish, French, and I learned enough Russian and Japanese to speak with Taxi drivers and got free drinks at bar! I am passionate about languages, and I found very effective tricks to learn a language really fast. Let’s define what learning a language…

  • How to learn Spanish in 60 days

    How to learn Spanish in 60 days

    I started my Baselang journey in May 2020 and my level went from close to zero to conversational in just 2 months. I used Duolingo before (useless) and italki (expensive), but only with Baselang I was able to get the momentum necessary to start speaking Spanish. While apps like Duolingo give you the illusion of…

  • La Realtà Virtuale – Oculus Quest

    Sono sempre stato un super appassionato di computer. Da piccolo ho amato i videogiochi nel mio Commodore 64 ma non mi sono mai convertito alle console. Dopo aver scoperto Internet nel 1996, mi sono innamorato di questo esperimento sociale che è diventata la mia passione, il motivo per cui non smetto di viaggiare in giro…

  • CS

    CS

    Mi chiamo Claudio, sono uno di quegli italiani che non vive più in Italia. Da diversi anni ormai sono in giro per l’Europa: prima in Finlandia poi in Lituania e ora di nuovo a Helsinki.

  • A Vacuum Cleaner Robot will change your life

    A Vacuum Cleaner Robot will change your life

    Why I waited so long to buy a Vacuum Cleaner Robot? Since I got my Robot Vacuum, my life has changed. My wife and I decided to buy a robot vacuum cleaner right after moving into our new apartment in New York. I started my research for the perfect vacuum cleaner on Amazon.com. Years ago…

  • Myanmar Diary

    Some notes I took during my trip in Myanmar in 2018. Day 1 Indian vegetarian restaurant Tanaka (the cream they use to protect their skin from the sun) Longi (the pants/skit all men wear) Day 2 Good bye Liya – my wife continued the trip with her friends Mandalay hill (I took the taxi from…

  • Why I love New York so much

    cs 20170904 Why I love New York I have been living in New York for 6 months now and I simply love it. New York is simply the most beautiful city in the world. Her history, full of different cuiltrues and civilizations living under the same roof. Center of so many important decisions for US,…