Diciotto anni fa c'era una cosa che si chiamava Open Letter, ed era un Internet magazine bellissimo. Mi manca parecchio
Money quote: "Open Letters is a new magazine of first-person writing in the form of personal correspondence.
But it’s something else, too: it’s an ongoing, evolving experiment in content delivery via the Internet."
http://openletters.net/the-delivery/
Money quote: "Open Letters is a new magazine of first-person writing in the form of personal correspondence.
But it’s something else, too: it’s an ongoing, evolving experiment in content delivery via the Internet."
http://openletters.net/the-delivery/
La Paris Review, che come avrete capito è una delle mie riviste preferite, ha pubblicato un florilegio di recensioni di Parigi prese da TripAdvisor. Insomma, Paris reviewed. Tutte a una stella: stroncature dire. Genio.
Money quote: "LES DEUX MAGOTS -
Hemingway ate here all the time. Hemingway also shot himself. Draw your own conclusions."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/31/paris-reviewed/
Money quote: "LES DEUX MAGOTS -
Hemingway ate here all the time. Hemingway also shot himself. Draw your own conclusions."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/31/paris-reviewed/
The Paris Review
Paris, Reviewed by Rosa Rankin-Gee
January 31, 2018 – Real life reviews from the City of Light, compiled from TripAdvisor.com MUSÉE D’ORSAY Not worth unless you are into art Only go if you are interested in
Probabilmente tutti abbiamo incontrato a un certo punto l’idea delle “mappe mentali”, quei diagrammi dove si mettono tutte le cose cercando di organizzare il pensiero a suon di tondi e di freccine. Bello, ma come funziona? Quando di usa? Salta fuori che c’è più di un modo, anzi ce ne sono tre, secondo questa interpretazione, e che sono fra loro interconnessi.
Money quote. “Here are three types of maps that can help your get started when trying to get your arms around what a topic or system boundary should be. The mind map, the cluster map and the concept map are three great starter maps and each informs the next to help you understand a topic or system. By making these diagrams we can determine what is in or out, what elements or actors we need to pay attention to and we can start to see relationships between the concepts of a topic or system. These diagrams won’t explain causes and effects or WHERE you need to pay attention in order to make transformation (that’s another series of models) but they will give you a sense of the actors, elements, components, and the scope to then move to the next level of understanding”
https://medium.com/tangible-ux/using-mapping-to-scope-a-system-b467564a80e2
Money quote. “Here are three types of maps that can help your get started when trying to get your arms around what a topic or system boundary should be. The mind map, the cluster map and the concept map are three great starter maps and each informs the next to help you understand a topic or system. By making these diagrams we can determine what is in or out, what elements or actors we need to pay attention to and we can start to see relationships between the concepts of a topic or system. These diagrams won’t explain causes and effects or WHERE you need to pay attention in order to make transformation (that’s another series of models) but they will give you a sense of the actors, elements, components, and the scope to then move to the next level of understanding”
https://medium.com/tangible-ux/using-mapping-to-scope-a-system-b467564a80e2
Medium
Using Mapping to Scope a System
The Power of Mapping
Immergiamoci nella fan-fiction slash, henprende peronsaggi pubblici, reali o fittizi, e li mette in situazioni erotiche. Esiste da decenni già su carta, però...
Money quote: “This passage might seem like a typical selection of steamy erotica (and trust me, it gets steamier) except for one thing: Jonathan and AJ are real people. This story is about an encounter between Jonathan Scott, co-host of HGTV’s real estate show Property Brothers, and AJ Styles, the WWE wrestler. The author is Chloe, a 19-year-old from Houston, and her piece is just one of hundreds on the site that puts Jonathan Scott — or his brother Drew, or sometimes both of them, together — in sexual, bizarre, or very clearly unrealistic situations.”
https://medium.com/s/darkish-web/the-dubious-ethics-of-real-person-fiction-5cd6bd498c16
Money quote: “This passage might seem like a typical selection of steamy erotica (and trust me, it gets steamier) except for one thing: Jonathan and AJ are real people. This story is about an encounter between Jonathan Scott, co-host of HGTV’s real estate show Property Brothers, and AJ Styles, the WWE wrestler. The author is Chloe, a 19-year-old from Houston, and her piece is just one of hundreds on the site that puts Jonathan Scott — or his brother Drew, or sometimes both of them, together — in sexual, bizarre, or very clearly unrealistic situations.”
https://medium.com/s/darkish-web/the-dubious-ethics-of-real-person-fiction-5cd6bd498c16
Medium
The Dubious Ethics of “Real-Person Fiction”
When fanfic writers start putting real celebrities in steamy situations, what’s the law to do?
Lavoro remoto, telelavoro, lavoro da casa, lavoro da dove vi pare ma senza più andare in ufficio: la tecnologia permette sempre più di operare un cambiamento importante e radicale nella forma e nel posto del lavoro. E di solito si pensa che sia una cosa positiva. Ma ci sono delle criticità. Qui si parla di gente che programma, ma la cosa con un po' di elasticità si può estendere a molti altri lavori di concetto.
Money quote: "There is a lot of good to say about remote working, and I see a lot of rabid defence of the practice. I agree with most of it. That said, I have been working remotely for a little more than 5 years now, and I now must acknowledge that it does not come without stress. This might come as a surprise for some, but in the end, I think that remote working has taken some toll on me over the last two years, especially when I went almost fully remote for a year, from June 2016 to June 2017."
https://hackernoon.com/the-stress-of-remote-working-38be5bdcf4da
Money quote: "There is a lot of good to say about remote working, and I see a lot of rabid defence of the practice. I agree with most of it. That said, I have been working remotely for a little more than 5 years now, and I now must acknowledge that it does not come without stress. This might come as a surprise for some, but in the end, I think that remote working has taken some toll on me over the last two years, especially when I went almost fully remote for a year, from June 2016 to June 2017."
https://hackernoon.com/the-stress-of-remote-working-38be5bdcf4da
Hackernoon
The Stress of Remote Working | HackerNoon
In software engineering, remote working makes a lot of sense since, most of the time, you only need a computer and an internet connection to perform your duties. So there are fewer reasons to force people to sit in a predefined office everyday. Consequently…
Il data journalism è quella cosa di cui in molti si riempiono la bocca ma non è mica tanto chiaro però quale sia il modo e lo scopo.
Ad esempio, i numeri nel giornalismo sono una cosa complessa e usare una loro rappresentazione grafica aggiunge un livello di complessità e potenziale distorsione notevole. Le semplificazioni possono distorcere. Anche un semplice zoom per "inquadrare meglio" può distorcere.
Prendete ad esempio questo grafico sull'andamento delle vendite dei dischi di vinile. A metterlo in prospettiva diventa tutta un'altra cosa, no?
Ad esempio, i numeri nel giornalismo sono una cosa complessa e usare una loro rappresentazione grafica aggiunge un livello di complessità e potenziale distorsione notevole. Le semplificazioni possono distorcere. Anche un semplice zoom per "inquadrare meglio" può distorcere.
Prendete ad esempio questo grafico sull'andamento delle vendite dei dischi di vinile. A metterlo in prospettiva diventa tutta un'altra cosa, no?
La fisica contemporanea ha le idee abbastanza chiare a proposito dell’universo multidimensionale. In passato, però, la chiave interpretativa era metafisica e legata all’occulto.
Money quote: “A more immediate antecedent to Zöllner’s hypothesis is found in The Unseen Universe, a popular book published anonymously in 1875, and later revealed to have been co-authored by the Scottish mathematical physicists Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait (a lifelong friend of Maxwell). The treatise speculates about links between scientific concepts such as conservation of energy and spiritual questions such as the persistence of life after death. In one brief passage, it connects the fourth dimension with an unseen realm”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-occult-roots-of-higher-dimensional-research-in-physics
Money quote: “A more immediate antecedent to Zöllner’s hypothesis is found in The Unseen Universe, a popular book published anonymously in 1875, and later revealed to have been co-authored by the Scottish mathematical physicists Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait (a lifelong friend of Maxwell). The treatise speculates about links between scientific concepts such as conservation of energy and spiritual questions such as the persistence of life after death. In one brief passage, it connects the fourth dimension with an unseen realm”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-occult-roots-of-higher-dimensional-research-in-physics
Aeon
Spiritual hyperplane
How spiritualists of the 19th century forged a lasting association between higher dimensions and the occult world
Sono stato in dubbio qualche giorno se condividere questo articolo oppure no. È particolarmente lungo anche per i miei standard e nelle prime pagine eccessivamente ombelicale, a mio avviso. Inutilmente ombelicale, dovrei dire.
Poi mi sono reso conto che sono comunque arrivato in fondo, facendo un viaggio tutto sommato interessante e quasi magico nella sua capacità di far svanire l’esorbitante mole che lo compone. Imperciocchè penso che si sia meritato di comparire come lettura della domenica.
La storia? Beh, è una storia di piantagioni e di campi in California, e dell’uomo che ne possiede più di tutti.
Money quote: “I turn back around and find Route 46, the road that killed James Dean. I steer past Wasco to the dust-blowing orchards that flank Lost Hills, the densest planting of almonds, pistachios, and pomegranates on earth. This is the domain of Stewart Resnick, the richest farmer in the country and maybe the most peculiar one, too. His story is the one I’ve been carting around in my notebook for the past few decades, sure I was ready to write it after five years or ten years, only to learn of another twist that would lead me down another road”
https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust
Poi mi sono reso conto che sono comunque arrivato in fondo, facendo un viaggio tutto sommato interessante e quasi magico nella sua capacità di far svanire l’esorbitante mole che lo compone. Imperciocchè penso che si sia meritato di comparire come lettura della domenica.
La storia? Beh, è una storia di piantagioni e di campi in California, e dell’uomo che ne possiede più di tutti.
Money quote: “I turn back around and find Route 46, the road that killed James Dean. I steer past Wasco to the dust-blowing orchards that flank Lost Hills, the densest planting of almonds, pistachios, and pomegranates on earth. This is the domain of Stewart Resnick, the richest farmer in the country and maybe the most peculiar one, too. His story is the one I’ve been carting around in my notebook for the past few decades, sure I was ready to write it after five years or ten years, only to learn of another twist that would lead me down another road”
https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust
The California Sunday Magazine
A Kingdom from Dust
A story of power, drought, migrant labor, and an insatiable drive to expand.
Foxconn investirà 342 milioni di dollari nell'intelligenza artificiale - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/foxconn-investira-342-milioni-dollari-nellintelligenza-artificiale/
https://www.macitynet.it/foxconn-investira-342-milioni-dollari-nellintelligenza-artificiale/
Macitynet.it
Foxconn investirà 342 milioni di dollari nell'intelligenza artificiale - Macitynet.it
Il terzista di Taiwan che costruisce iPhone e iPad per Apple intende trasfermarsi in uno dei principali attori nel nascente mercato dell'intelligenza artificiale.
Un capitano Kirk ricostruito al computer nel prossimo Star Trek? - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/un-capitano-kirk-ricostruito-al-computer-nel-prossimo-star-trek/
https://www.macitynet.it/un-capitano-kirk-ricostruito-al-computer-nel-prossimo-star-trek/
Macitynet.it
Un capitano Kirk ricostruito al computer nel prossimo Star Trek? - Macitynet.it
William Shatner, l'attore che interpreta il capitano dell'astronave Enterprise, si candida per il prossimo blockbuster di J.J. Abrams: "Mi sono fatto digitalizzare per te"
India, una nazione schiava dei gruppi famigliari di Whasapp - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/india-una-nazione-schiava-dei-gruppi-famigliari-di-whasapp/
https://www.macitynet.it/india-una-nazione-schiava-dei-gruppi-famigliari-di-whasapp/
Macitynet.it
India, una nazione schiava dei gruppi famigliari di Whasapp
*L'uso e l'abuso delle chat collettive per mantenere il controllo sociale nelle famiglie sta diventando una pratica sempre più diffusa in India. Con passaggi che riecheggiano anche qui in Italia
Ricostruire i giochi da tavolo dell'antichità (dei quali ovviamente non ci sono arrivate le istruzioni). Una nicchia dell'archeologia piuttosto interessante.
Money quote: "Schädler’s 2001 reconstruction of the rules of latrunculi draws from poetry and epigrams alike, as well as the game boards scratched into ancient roof tiles or the steps of the Parthenon. His version, though playable, is still a little vague, with the exact number of pieces to be decided on by the players. (He knows there must have been a lot—perhaps between 16 and 24—because one reference describes how the board “rattles with the crowd of pieces.”) Were suicide moves, in which players can take their own pieces, allowed? Maybe, maybe not—but they’re part of Schädler’s take anyway. Try it at home—all it take is a checkers board and up to 24 counters per player."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/latrunculi-impossible-task-board-games-ancient-mystery-puzzle-monopoly
Money quote: "Schädler’s 2001 reconstruction of the rules of latrunculi draws from poetry and epigrams alike, as well as the game boards scratched into ancient roof tiles or the steps of the Parthenon. His version, though playable, is still a little vague, with the exact number of pieces to be decided on by the players. (He knows there must have been a lot—perhaps between 16 and 24—because one reference describes how the board “rattles with the crowd of pieces.”) Were suicide moves, in which players can take their own pieces, allowed? Maybe, maybe not—but they’re part of Schädler’s take anyway. Try it at home—all it take is a checkers board and up to 24 counters per player."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/latrunculi-impossible-task-board-games-ancient-mystery-puzzle-monopoly
Atlas Obscura
The Impossible Task of Reconstructing the Rules to an Ancient Board Game
How would you figure out Monopoly with no instructions and half the pieces missing?
Se volete entrare dentro un mondo parecchio diverso da quello che immagino conosciate e di cui leggete di solito, del quale invece io mi occupo da quasi vent'anni, questa intervista è un buon punto di partenza. Lei è Peggy Johnson, una delle donne più potenti di Microsoft, voluta direttamente da Satja Nadella (il Ceo di MS) nel suo team. La giornalista, che è poi la direttrice piuttosto giovane e brava di Business Insider, Alyson Shontell, l'ha intervista a Davos, durante quello che il m5S ritiene essere una sorta di sabba degli stregoni dell'economia e della finanza. Lei - Peggy - è un personaggio pazzesco, con una storia che non c'entra niente con quello a cui siamo abituati a pensare, ed è una delle persone che emergono poche volte in pubblico, ma cambiano gli assetti del pianeta.
La sua intervista è un viaggio molto personale, quasi una vanity chat si potrebbe pensare, ma in realtà lancia una serie di segnali e messaggi nel mondo del business hi-tech Usa pazzesca: è il campanello che ricorda a tutti che da dopo Barack Obama l'America sta vivendo una realtà molto diversa, con una parte che cresce molto velocemente e un'altra (il fronte di Donald Trump) che prova a resistere e a reagire per adesso con un certo successo.
Money quote: "To understand Peggy Johnson and the qualities that have made her successful, you have to know about her family. She was the 14th of 15 kids. As a child she was a quiet listener who learned to read her siblings' facial expressions from the kitchen countertop (with so many people, her chair wouldn't fit around the family table). Eventually Johnson followed some of her brothers and sisters to San Diego State University, where she started studying business, even though she really loved math and science. It was there that a chance encounter changed her life's trajectory.
Peggy Johnson: My parents had two rules: You had to go to college, and you had to pay for it yourself. So we all did."
http://www.businessinsider.com/peggy-johnson-microsoft-linkedin-interview-2018-2?IR=T
La sua intervista è un viaggio molto personale, quasi una vanity chat si potrebbe pensare, ma in realtà lancia una serie di segnali e messaggi nel mondo del business hi-tech Usa pazzesca: è il campanello che ricorda a tutti che da dopo Barack Obama l'America sta vivendo una realtà molto diversa, con una parte che cresce molto velocemente e un'altra (il fronte di Donald Trump) che prova a resistere e a reagire per adesso con un certo successo.
Money quote: "To understand Peggy Johnson and the qualities that have made her successful, you have to know about her family. She was the 14th of 15 kids. As a child she was a quiet listener who learned to read her siblings' facial expressions from the kitchen countertop (with so many people, her chair wouldn't fit around the family table). Eventually Johnson followed some of her brothers and sisters to San Diego State University, where she started studying business, even though she really loved math and science. It was there that a chance encounter changed her life's trajectory.
Peggy Johnson: My parents had two rules: You had to go to college, and you had to pay for it yourself. So we all did."
http://www.businessinsider.com/peggy-johnson-microsoft-linkedin-interview-2018-2?IR=T
Business Insider
How Peggy Johnson became Microsoft's 'deal-maker-in-chief' by helping lead the $26 billion LinkedIn acquisition and 40 other investments
Peggy Johnson became Microsoft's "deal-maker-in-chief" after 25 years at Qualcomm. Here's how she did it.
Red Hat si sta per comprare il mondo dei container - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/red-hat-si-sta-comprare-mondo-dei-container/
https://www.macitynet.it/red-hat-si-sta-comprare-mondo-dei-container/
Macitynet.it
Red Hat si sta per comprare il mondo dei container - Macitynet.it
L’azienda open source mette sul piatto 250 milioni di dollari per acquisire CoreOS e la tecnologia di orchestrazione Kubernetes
Zitta zitta, ecco la migliore e più sintetica spiegazione della nostalgia hipster che abbia trovato finora: la gratificazione istantanea è gratificazione solo per un istante.
Money quote: “Millennials are trying to get life’s little difficulties back, because those little difficulties are what make the experience of doing anything special. Listening to 5,000 songs on shuffle isn’t the same as listening to the same album 100 times in its entirety, and texting casually over a week isn’t the same as rereading someone’s letter — something they thought about and possibly revised and rewrote — while you think about all you want to say and take time and put in effort and care while you write and revise your response. Instant gratification is only gratifying for an instant.“
https://writingcooperative.com/why-millennials-buy-typewriters-39b8beb3a86b
Money quote: “Millennials are trying to get life’s little difficulties back, because those little difficulties are what make the experience of doing anything special. Listening to 5,000 songs on shuffle isn’t the same as listening to the same album 100 times in its entirety, and texting casually over a week isn’t the same as rereading someone’s letter — something they thought about and possibly revised and rewrote — while you think about all you want to say and take time and put in effort and care while you write and revise your response. Instant gratification is only gratifying for an instant.“
https://writingcooperative.com/why-millennials-buy-typewriters-39b8beb3a86b
The Writing Cooperative
Why Millennials Buy Typewriters
and what this says about us
Ci sono limiti che non ha più senso voler superare. No?
Money quote: “"Increasingly, what we do outside is less about enjoying the activity itself as an intrinsic good, and more about planning ways to go bigger, faster, and farther, often for our selfie-stick mounted cameras. And so it went that once healthy outdoor pursuits devolved into suicide clubs."”
https://www.outsideonline.com/2270296/stop-progression
Money quote: “"Increasingly, what we do outside is less about enjoying the activity itself as an intrinsic good, and more about planning ways to go bigger, faster, and farther, often for our selfie-stick mounted cameras. And so it went that once healthy outdoor pursuits devolved into suicide clubs."”
https://www.outsideonline.com/2270296/stop-progression
Outside Online
Stop the Progression Already
It’s time to call bullshit on progression.
Se siete (o vi sentite) ragazze, questa lista di cose che vostra madre non vi ha mai detto potrebbe molto piacervi
Money quote: "By the time a woman finally realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she’s wrong."
https://byrslf.co/things-my-mother-never-told-me-and-probably-should-have-2f85b65ab435
Money quote: "By the time a woman finally realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she’s wrong."
https://byrslf.co/things-my-mother-never-told-me-and-probably-should-have-2f85b65ab435
Be Yourself
Things My Mother Never Told Me — And Probably Should Have
A list. Of sorts …
Un pensiero che mi piace molto sul cosa vuol dire programmare (alla faccia di tutte le Code.org del pianeta e degli ECDL vari)
Money quote 1: "One of the ideas I tried to get across is that if you do not start a paper by opening a text processor, and if you do not start a presentation by opening a slide editor (and you should never do either of these things), then you surely do not start thinking about code by opening a code editor. Writing code should be the last part of the project. The real action comes before."
Money quote 2: "When you approach computational problems this way, it becomes striking that 90% of the job can be done without ever knowing how to turn the computer on. “Knowing code” is essentially an empty notion. What does it means? Is it knowing the language? Someone reading through the entire documentation of R is as ill prepared to solve problems as someone reading through a dictionary is at speaking a language."
https://medium.com/@tpoi/are-you-a-scientist-do-not-learn-how-to-code-just-yet-690528f1da8d
Money quote 1: "One of the ideas I tried to get across is that if you do not start a paper by opening a text processor, and if you do not start a presentation by opening a slide editor (and you should never do either of these things), then you surely do not start thinking about code by opening a code editor. Writing code should be the last part of the project. The real action comes before."
Money quote 2: "When you approach computational problems this way, it becomes striking that 90% of the job can be done without ever knowing how to turn the computer on. “Knowing code” is essentially an empty notion. What does it means? Is it knowing the language? Someone reading through the entire documentation of R is as ill prepared to solve problems as someone reading through a dictionary is at speaking a language."
https://medium.com/@tpoi/are-you-a-scientist-do-not-learn-how-to-code-just-yet-690528f1da8d
Medium
Are you a scientist? Do not learn how to code (just yet).
Programming and cooking are almost the same. One is about manipulating raw ingredients through a series of steps until people are able to…
Facebook ha 14 anni, tanti auguri al social “Amico” - il mio articolo per Macity (c'è da divertirsi, mi dicono)
Money quote: "Tutto questo per dire che Facebook, come e più di Google, è un gigante completamente in equilibrio su uno spillo: quello dell’attenzione delle persone. La sua è una vera economia dell’attenzione."
https://www.macitynet.it/tanti-auguri-facebook/
Money quote: "Tutto questo per dire che Facebook, come e più di Google, è un gigante completamente in equilibrio su uno spillo: quello dell’attenzione delle persone. La sua è una vera economia dell’attenzione."
https://www.macitynet.it/tanti-auguri-facebook/
Macitynet.it
Facebook ha 14 anni, tanti auguri al social “Amico” - Macitynet.it
Il social media per definizione compie quattordici anni, ma il suo futuro oggi sembra molto diverso da quello che avremmo immaginato sino a poco tempo fa