Paolo Belcastro Automattic

Early morning landing in Munich (MUC) from Mumbai (BOM), 2026-03-13

When a band gets fifty thousand people singing along in a stadium, the crowd sounds surprisingly good — on pitch, on tempo. Not because concert-goers are better singers than karaoke regulars They’re the same people. The difference is sample size. In a crowd of fifty thousand, every individual is slightly off — sharp, flat, early, […]

I find intriguing how lately Apple TV shows opening credits seem to follow similar inspirations. The first is the OG, Slow Horses, one of the best series in the past ten years, with an opening music by Mick Jagger who, somehow, seems to not get older anymore… It’s by far the best of the three, […]