---
title: "Essays on work, culture and design | Francesco Imola"
url: "https://francescoimola.com/writing/essays/"
description: "Frank and sometimes imperfect essays on modern work, culture, design and the business of learning new things. Written without a thought-leader in sight."
---

# Francesco's essays

Frank, often imperfect essays on the themes of modern work, culture, design, and learning new things.

1.  [Ideas](/writing/)

3.  Essays

[![Astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy, mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA), uses a general purpose computer on Discovery's mid deck.](/assets/images/sm3a-clervoywithageneralpurposecomputers103e5189-400w.jpeg)

### I hope someday I get to visit your website

Not Bad (Substack) September 2026

](https://notbadnotbad.substack.com/p/i-hope-someday-i-get-to-visit-your?r=123caf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true)[

### There needs to be a disclaimer somewhere

August 2026

](/writing/disclaimer/)[![person drying dishes in a restaurant kitchen](/assets/images/5bcd32f5-cd37-4df5-9dce-0197dd7a98f71920x1280-400w.jpeg)

### Service jobs taught me everything

August 2026

](/writing/2026-08-28-service-jobs-taught-me-everything/)[![sunlight shines on ripe pears hanging from a branch](/assets/images/8afaf482-92ee-4750-a9d3-698f360b60f94032x3024-400w.webp)

### Being visible on the web is not a civic duty

Not Bad (Substack) July 2026

](https://open.substack.com/pub/notbadnotbad/p/being-visible-on-the-web-is-not-a)[![The hard part isn't the no](/assets/images/nope-400w.jpeg)

### The hard part isn't the no

March 2026

](/writing/the-hard-part-isnt-the-no/)[![collage of screenshots from the Balestra website](/assets/images/balestra-400w.jpeg)

### The least website possible

Not Bad (Substack) March 2025

](https://notbadnotbad.substack.com/p/the-least-website-possible)

[All writing](/writing/)