Welcome

I’m Fabrizio.
Partnership architect.
Editor. Mountain person.

Two decades of partnership work across telecommunications, climate technology, data privacy and alpine SME ecosystems. Italian by birth, British by adoption, alpine by anchor.

North Star VenturesHosted by Fab Campaigns Ltd
What this site is for

This site is organised into three places: where I think out loud, where I keep the framework that underlies my partnership work, and where the regular writing goes out. You arrived here for one of them. The doors below are the same width, in case you came for a different one than you expected.

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Ideas

Field notes on technology, ethics, and what holds together.

Long-form essays on digital rights, AI governance, the platforms that shape public life, and the institutions that might still be capable of holding them to account. This is where I think out loud.

Most recent · 18 June 2026
The Caldicott Principles and the Gap NHS England Admitted
22 mins · Governance · Digital Ethics
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Partnership Principles

Five disciplines for the partnerships that actually hold.

The framework that underlies my partnership work — Partnerships Over Transactions, Embedding Over Advising, Adventure Over Comfort, Presence Over Performance, Growth Through Discomfort. Sequential, not parallel.

Featured · The codified short form
Beyond the Vendor Relationship — a whitepaper.
COMING SOON – Whitepaper meta – page count, edition, host
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Writing

Two newsletters, on data, ethics, and the discipline of starting the week.

FFFN – Fab’s Friday Field Notes: occasional dispatches on outdoor, friendship, social, technology, data and what’s worth paying attention to.

Monday Momentum: a brief weekly note for starting my week on purpose.

Latest issue · 19 June 2026
Reading the Rock
5 mins
A short signal

What I’m doing now.

Updated monthly, in the spirit of nownownow.com. The full Now page lives behind the link at the top of the site.

Building
A couple of ventures are at the stage where the next move matters more than the last document. AMBER
Writing
One post a week, every Monday. The Ideas series publishes when the question is big enough. Current Focus: website restyle, White Paper and the Book Club use cases. GREEN
Reading
Empire of AI by Karen Hao; Material World by Ed Conway E. of AI: re-read to facilitate a book club| MW: for my environmental ventures
Climbing
[What’s next on the mountain] [Optional context]
Geography
[Where you are this month and next] [Optional — contact note]

Selected work & ventures.

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Fab Campaigns
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Imprese Favolose
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Smart Mountains
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