The phase is shifting…
Grasp it. Understand it. Change it.
The global landscape is evolving at an ever-faster pace. Keeping up with it, staying aware, and understanding where it’s heading is no easy task.
It means stepping away from the toxicity of the news cycle, uncovering how economy, society, politics, and technology are structurally entangled.
phase:shift is a newsletter that maps the trajectories of change, connecting and contextualizing the best available sources to trace the global shifts reshaping our world.
That’s how we help you understand reality, so you can change it.
Our formats
Critical Point
It’s published weekly. Each issue features three key stories that help you make sense of current economic, social, political and technological trends. For each story, we explain why it matters and curate a selection of links so you can form your own opinion, starting from the sources.
Phase Reading
It’s published monthly. Each issue features a long-form article or an interview that delves into the economic, social, political and technological changes that are reshaping the world.
Phase Analysis
It’s published annually at the beginning of the year. With this report, we attempt to grasp the historical phase we are living, to help you understand where the world is heading.
Who we are
Giulio Fatti
I'm a computational materials scientist at Imperial College London, working on advanced materials for energy and sensing technologies — with links to robotics, healthcare, and industrial safety. I hold a PhD in physics. Outside the lab, I'm a close observer of the world's undercurrents: I believe in the need to untangle the web of events that shape our lives to understand where we are and how to move forward. I share here the information I collect, hoping it can spark thinking and action.
Piero Lo Monaco
Born in Sicily, I live straddling France and Germany. I’m a scientific editor at BMC, Springer Nature. In my past research life, I studied life sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and I hold a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the Université Claude Bernard Lyon. The places where I lived, the people I have met, and the ideas we have exchanged led me to a transnational perspective aspiring to connect, reconnect, and relay seemingly distant facts, shedding light on otherwise unobvious links.
