Why a Lab?
Experimenting is the ultimate way to live intentionally. Treating life as a laboratory helps me embrace that persistent feeling that life is never truly "figured out" - it's a continuous process of discovery.
Hey! I'm Davide. 👋 I'm an aerospace engineer who loves experimenting and learning stuff. I had the idea of this lab after way too many nights lying awake, stressed about wasting my life and doing absolutely nothing with it.
- Experimenting since: 2025
- Version: Perpetually beta
- Mission: Experiment. Learn. Repeat.
In this mindset, every step counts as progress: experiences become experiments, ideas become hypotheses, and failures become invaluable data.
If you want to reach out for ideas, projects, feedback or suggestions, feel free to drop me a line at [email protected].
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To discover anything meaningful, you must move forward, you must experiment. Stillness teaches us nothing. Stay in your comfort zone, and you'll never know what else is possible. Life operates by the same principle.
Davide Calabrese
The idea behind dacalab.com - yes, I quoted myself. In my defence, the collection is still growing and this one will be the first to go 😜
Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one's work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed.
Cal Newport
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Shame is a horrible long-term motivator. It is more likely to contribute to dysfunction and continued cycles of unsustainable practises.
KC Davis
How to Keep House While Drowning
The tomorrow in which "I'll really feel like it" is always a day away. It never becomes today.
Timothy A. Pychyl
Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change
Rather than an attempt to reach a fixed destination, testing a hypothesis is an opportunity for growth.
