Welcome to lucalevi.
Your portal for growth.
Find out here how to study, what your path is (with way.lucalevi.com), and how to get in touch with Luca. And feel free to have a look around my things: there are plenty of photographs too.
Coming soon
Studiare per la vita
A free book, in Italian, on how to study and why we forget almost everything we studied. It is in preparation: in the meantime you can read its preface. The page is in Italian only.
Open the page (in Italian)
The path
lucalevi’s way
A path of questions to work out what work is yours. Not what you are already good at, and not what other people expect of you. Five parts, and one of them is about how to earn from it. The method is free and there is no account to make: you download the file and do it with the assistant you already use.
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Insurek
Which Swiss health insurance costs you least? Give it a postcode, a year of birth and a rough idea of what you spend on health care: Insurek compares every insurer, every model and every deductible available in Switzerland where you live, using the official premium data of Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health, and tells you which combination costs least over a year. It sells nothing, refers no one and stores nothing — it is arithmetic on public numbers. In Italian, German, French and English.
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Written as Luca Iacolettig.
Four titles published. The first three you can read here in PDF, for nothing, or buy on Amazon if you want them on paper or on your Kindle. The fourth, La mia via, is sold on Amazon.
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Tutto quello che non so
And that I did not know
The first one. The things I did not know, written down so I could understand them.
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I Lost My Way
And Then I Found It
In English. Jordan’s fate, and the fever for money.
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Tutto quello che so
The counterweight to the first one, completing and improving it.
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La mia via
How I found my way in life: what I got wrong, what I found. A short book, in Italian, sold on Amazon.
About me
I am Luca Iacolettig — lucalevi in the online world.
Have a look around these pages: there is something useful here. And if you have something useful or interesting for me, write to me — my address is [email protected].
I have a master’s degree in Environmental Science and Technology. When I finished I did not know what work to do, and nobody could tell me. I found out by doing things and looking at how I did them — which is exactly what lucalevi’s way asks you to do, in a shorter time than mine.
Studies and work
Where the rest of it comes from.
The MSc thesis on avalanches is where half the code below comes from. The CV is for anyone who needs the formal version, with the dates and the names of the companies.
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The thesis
La pericolosità da valanga calcolata e visualizzata
A numerical and geographical model
Avalanche bulletins tell you the danger is considerable. They do not tell you where it is. This model takes the snow and weather conditions of the moment and works out which slopes are most prone to avalanche release — slope by slope, aspect by aspect, altitude by altitude. A map instead of an icon.
Supervisor: Prof. Federico Cazorzi. Co-supervisors: Dr Betty Sovilla (SLF Davos) and Daniele Moro. Written in Italian, with abstracts in English and German. Creative Commons BY 3.0 Italy.
The file is not in place at the moment. Write to [email protected] and I will send it to you.
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The CV
Python and data developer
Four years of Python and nine of SQL, from the basics to production databases, in public transport and municipal services, in Switzerland and in Italy. Before that: the degree in Udine and a spell as a research assistant at the SLF Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos.
Three working languages — Italian, English, German — and several years of professional experience in Switzerland. Available remotely and, on site, in the provinces of Udine, Gorizia and Trieste.
In preparation: I am redoing the CV in a version fit for publishing. In the meantime write to [email protected] and I will send it to you.
The code
What I write in code is on GitHub, open.
Tools born from real problems: avalanche snow, the sums behind Swiss health insurance, and a course for learning C by writing it.
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C
ccourse
Learn C by writing C, entirely in your terminal. Fix a broken or unfinished file in your own editor: every time you save, the tool compiles it, runs it and tells you whether it passes. A hands-on course in the spirit of Rustlings.
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Python / Jupyter
swiss-deductible-chooser
The code behind Insurek: it weighs the six Swiss deductibles against your premiums and the medical costs you expect, and tells you which one pays. It runs as a website or as a Jupyter notebook.
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Rust / Python
Avalanche-release-improved
Veitinger’s algorithm for potential avalanche release areas, rewritten in Python and Rust: from a terrain model, a map running from 0 (release unlikely) to 1 (highly favourable).
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R
Avalanche-release-extended
Potential avalanche release areas found automatically, in R. To Veitinger and Sovilla’s original algorithm it adds snowpack stability, dangerous aspects and altitudes, and snow cover.
Social media and platforms
Where else you find me.
Find me on YouTube, Substack and GitHub too: that is where I upload most of what I make.
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YouTube
The lucalevi YouTube channel: interesting life hacks that actually work!
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Substack
What I write, as it comes out. Subscribing is free and you can leave whenever you like.
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GitHub
The code, all of it, with its history. Open licences.
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