The Publication
The Long Build is a personal investigation into how Europe builds a future worth living in. Most coverage of Europe focuses on what's being built. The Long Build focuses on how. Technology, law, institutions, culture, and people.
The question underneath is bigger than the economics: what kind of future is Europe actually constructing, and what does it mean for how people live and govern themselves.
Most technology coverage is reactive. It chases announcements, tracks valuations, and declares winners before the game has even started. The Long Build takes a different approach: slow, structural analysis that tries to understand what is actually being constructed, who is building it, and what it will mean when it is finished.
The publication covers two formats. Intelligence Briefings are research-heavy dispatches tracking specific decisions — a funding round, a policy shift, an infrastructure commitment — and placing them inside a longer narrative. Columns are more personal: longer-form analysis and argument about where things are heading and why it matters.
The Author
I'm Thomas di Luccio. I write The Long Build because I believe the choices being made right now in Europe will shape whether technology strengthens or erodes democratic life. I want to understand how that's going. Writing it in public is how I hold myself to account.
My interest is structural rather than speculative. I'm less drawn to the question of which startup will become a unicorn, and more drawn to the question of what kind of technology ecosystem Europe is actually building: its funding dynamics, its industrial dependencies, its relationship with public investment and regulation.
I write slowly and try to be right rather than fast. The name of the publication is both a description and a commitment.