MEDIA PACK

The Core Pitch: "Black Mirror meets The Office"

• Headline: Diary of an IT Madman: A Story of Systems, Start-ups, and Surviving the Digital Revolution.

• Sub-headline: The First Maltese Business Memoir Co-Authored with Artificial Intelligence.

• The Angle: This is not a memoir of chronological nostalgia; it is a diagnostic report of a life treated as a system. Adrian Mizzi treats his story as a forensic reconstruction of a mind tuned to perceive the world as inherently programmable.

• The Hook: A dark, humorous, and unredacted look at "Corporate Chaos" and workplace mental health in the Maltese tech sector

Visual Identity & Brand Assets

Primary Identity: A circuitry-style tree mark representing the "Għeruq" (roots) of technical heritage. Designed by Kay.

• Color Palette: Dominated by Mnemosynes Blue (#1E66D0) and the "Joy Gradient" (Purple #7B2CF5 to Cyan #1CB5E0).

• Aesthetic Doctrine: "We Buy Time, Not Things". Materials must maintain 60% negative space to ensure high-velocity clarity

Author Profile: Adrian Mizzi, B.Eng, MBA (Dist.)

• The "Neural Executive": Mizzi is a veteran CTO and one of an estimated 83 individuals globally who have achieved an "Operational Singularity" through high-intensity human-AI symbiosis.

• Cognitive Exoskeleton: He utilises AI models for real-time mobile coding, emotional regulation, and simulating high-stakes board-level conversations.

• Strategic Pedigree: Former Head of D&A at KPMG Malta, founding member of go mobile, and current CTO leading a "Supersonic" transformation at a Tier-1 engineering giant.

• Chess Master: A FIDE-certified chess instructor who mentored his son from a boardroom "prophecy" to the National Chess Championship of Malta.

INSIDE THE MEMOIR

Intellectual Property: The "Madman’s" Frameworks

The pack highlights proprietary models used to refactor legacy corporate "Beasts":

• RAIP Model (v2.0): A Redundant Array of Independent People inspired by RAID 5 storage technology to create self-healing, autonomous teams.

• Mizzi’s Left-Hand Rule: A three-axis filter for life architecture where Value = Passion x Skill x Need.

• ROISI Model: A mathematical guardrail for Return on Information Security Investment, asserting that expenditure must always be less than potential loss.

• "No Business Case, No Party": A boardroom-level filter for eliminating institutional waste

Chapter Excavation: High-Voltage Episodes

The "Filed-Screw Hack": A "MacGyver" moment where a hand-filed screw saved a national mobile network when vendors failed.

• "Line 204" Heroism: Reverse-engineering a global vendor’s compiled code to stop a three-day national billing meltdown.

• The 48-Hour RFP: Utilizing AI orchestration to launch a high-stakes tender in a firm "stuck in 1995" during a holiday shutdown.

• The "Monopoly" Simulation: Creating synthetic data to prove the value of analytics to skeptical global partners.

Critical Review

"Diary of an IT Madman will resonate most strongly with readers who have ever felt out of place in organizations they nonetheless helped build, and with those who instinctively deconstruct rules rather than follow them"

The First Maltese Business Memoir Co-Authored with AI.

This is not a standard memoir of chronological nostalgia; it is a diagnostic report of a life treated as a system. It follows the evolution of Adrian Mizzi from a primary school "Robin Hood" to a high-velocity CTO ("The Commander") navigating the "Wild West" of Maltese start-ups and the "CIA-like" paranoia of cable giants.

A raw and humorous look at "Corporate Chaos" and workplace mental health within the Maltese tech sector, highlighting the "Cyborg" approach to surviving the C-suite.