Daniel Falbo

Hi, I'm Daniel Falbo, an Italian software engineer, no, computer programmer based in London. I was born on December 10th, 2003 in Sibari. I spend most of my professional time writing code and most of my personal time dancing and/or listening to music at high resolution.



My email address is
I receive many messages: while I'm thankful, I'm not able to reply to every single one. I understand this sounds rough, but otherwise I would not work. If you don't get a reply the first time please try to resend your message if it is truly important.

My social channels

Sometimes I write on my blog at newsletter.danielfalbo.com.
I am not on any social media. No Twitter, no Instagram, no LinkedIn, no nothing.
I constantly read (and often write comments) on Hacker News.

Code

The most notable piece of code I wrote is, likely, DanceCut AI: an automated video-editing app for dancers, based on object tracking. My dear friends Gianluca Pontoni and Filippo Ranaldi took care of DanceCut's strategy and distribution— and, more importantly, made working on it unmeasurably more pleasurable.

Other software products I'm happy I built:

• Eugene, a gym computer vision system based on pose classification. Designed with my dear friend Gianluca.
• Deeply, a journaling diary that writes back at you. Designed with my dear friend Gianluca.
• Wellbio, a diary that sends you journaling prompts via email, allows you to journal on-the-fly by replying to those emails, and sends you a weekly visual summary of your life. Designed with my dear friend Gianluca.
• Ybook, an NFT final-year yearbook to invest in promising graduates' careers. Designed with my dear friend and cinematographer Jonathan Elia.

Palantir

I'm currently working as a full-time software engineer at Palantir Technologies.

• The Python dependency visualization tool is the first project I built at Palantir.

People and their organizations I'll forever be grateful towards

• Marco Roseti and Concetta Perri: for opening the Tersicore Dance School and creating the environment that allowed me to fill my childhood afternoons with passion and love
• Alessandro Steri and Filippo Ranaldi: for creating the N.ough Project, believing in me when not even I believed in myself, and teaching me the power of discipline and attitude
• Francesco Capponi: for establishing the Lead The Future community, opening my mind to all that's going on in the world, turning me in the most ambitious version of myself, and allowing lifelong connections with kindred spirits to happen
• Erick Turricelli and Tommaso Tosi: for launching the Silicon Valley Fellowship, flying me to the Bay Area, and making me feel part of the innovation in the world
• Ozalp Babaoglu, Lorenzo Alvisi, Alessandro Panconesi, Gianfranco Bilardi, Schmidt Sciences and the Elicsir Foundation: for teaching me that no matter how impactful your professional contributions, all the joy in life remains in staying humble and just retiring to beautiful places eating good food while discussing interesting ideas with cool people

Fundamental things I believe about society and life

• We can't fix people, we can only love them.
• Hard things are always worthwhile.
• "One day" will never come, today is all we have.
• The human attention span decrease is the saddest loss of this decade.
• Intelligence is a myth and emotional maturity is all that matters, even in professional/technical pursuits.
• Decent financial freedom is a prerequisite for living deliberately, but no more than decent, for hedonic adaptation kicks in promptly.
• Time spent accumulating credentials or following arbitrary social norms doesn't lead to any meaningful outcome and is basically just lost forever.
• The only way to create something good is to create it for you to be proud of it afterwards, not for customers or for your audience.

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