Guest post by: Giulia Traverso Last month I attended the Ada Lovelace Festival in Berlin, a conference for women in tech. There were many women at the top levels of important tech companies that came to speak and share their vision about the future of their industries. One talk that [...]
Guest post by: Giulia Traverso, Breaking Thirty When I first started working on Breaking Thirty, I searched for a nice morning routine to adopt so that my blog could fit into my day without leaving me drained. I discovered that there is a routine for every season of the year [...]
By: Giulia Traverso Last month I was in Brussels for the final review of the EU-project that has been funding my PhD. I was nervous and felt like I didn’t belong. The review went well and our work got approved. But what fascinated me was the state I tuned into [...]
By Guest Blogger: Giulia Traverso Here I am, sitting at my desk, trying to write something for the seventh time this week. I am supposed to write my first blog post ever. Instead, the only thought that keeps crossing my mind is that I hate writing. And whether the nuance [...]
(First appeared in Horoscope.com) Have you ever planned a road trip? Most of us have, and so we know that the basic things we need to know are 1) where we're starting from; 2) where we want to end up; and 3) the means, plus a plan or directions to [...]
Sometimes your rock bottom can look a lot like being at the top to everyone else. Flashback six years: I’m sitting on a private jet, sipping an espresso, newspapers from all over the world neatly stacked beside me, on my way to Brussels for work, and … an essential piece [...]
Confession: I sorta have a lil’ to-do list fetish. There’s something about the instant gratification of checking off or, even better, drawing a thick line through a TO-DO…especially if the crossed-off list is super long. One day, while indulging my inner overachiever, my husband Luca said, “Imagine putting all your [...]