I am a Product Gardener, a Cat Herder, and a Photographer

I am Paolo Belcastro, I have been working in tech for over 30 years, building software and leading distributed teams for most of that time. My current roles are Artistic Director for the Domains Maison at Automattic, and Managing Partner of The WEELO Factory, in Vienna, Austria.

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Sep 13, 2026

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity

I am fascinated by how predictably we are willing to shift responsibilities to our tools. As soon as we take a minute to look back, we realize that we, humans, are the only ones responsible; for everything good, and for everything bad that happens to us. AI wasn’t an issue in 1953, yet Hundertwasser was…
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