Nuova parola da imparare: Ikigai

Money quote: "“Your ikigai is at the intersection of what you are good at and what you love doing,” says Hector Garcia, the co-author of Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life. He writes,“Just as humans have lusted after objects and money since the dawn of time, other humans have felt dissatisfaction at the relentless pursuit of money and fame and have instead focused on something bigger than their own material wealth. This has over the years been described using many different words and practices, but always hearkening back to the central core of meaningfulness in life.”"

https://journal.thriveglobal.com/ikigai-the-japanese-secret-to-a-long-and-happy-life-might-just-help-you-live-a-more-fulfilling-9871d01992b7

Il rapporto con il nostro corpo è una cosa meravigliosa e complessa. Ma dobbiamo deciderci: corpo come oggetto o corpo come essere vivente? Gli americani secondo me lo trattano come un oggetto, un motore da spremere, più che come una entità viva. Anche quando provano a essere bravi. Che senso ha altrimenti dare consigli sulla salute del corpo quando si fanno i videogiochi e preoccuparsene nell’ottica di una maratona di 24 ore di gioco consecutive?

Money quote: “One way not to reach that cap is to drink plenty of water and have healthy snacks. It may be tempting to grab a soda, coffee or alcohol, but they’ll dehydrate you and make you tired. Likewise, as fun as it is to grab a pizza and game all night, you’re better off with healthy snacks. Streamer Ellohime, who built his channel on 24 hour marathon streams, recommends fruit, nuts, or yogurt to keep you energized. You might not be planning on going for a full 24 hours, but if you stay hydrated and snack healthfully, you’ll probably lower your chances of waking up in a pile of crumbs as I have definitely done in the past.”

https://kotaku.com/how-to-play-video-games-without-messing-up-your-body-1824219174

TechCrunch si rifà la grafica. Sorpresa sorpresa, tra le mille altre cose comincia a muoversi in alternativa a WordPress. L’inizio di qualcosa d’altro ?

Money quote: “We also knew from the start that we wanted to capitalize on advances in web development since our last overhaul. This would help us deliver that kind of experience, and make building on our work easier in the future. To that end, we decided to make a new frontend in the form of a single page style React app, decoupled from its WordPress backend. Among other benefits, this ended the need for full page loads every time you want to read something new, opening up a new world of interaction possibilities, and for a reading experience where articles could increasingly relate to each other and to the broader context in which they emerge.”

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/welcome-to-the-new-techcrunch/amp/

Sulle prime il ragionamento non mi pareva particolarmente sensato. Ma adesso, a pensarci sopra un po', devo dire che mi affascina: e se, anziché far convergere il Mac verso l'iPad, accadesse il contrario? Se bastasse attaccare una tastiera per rendere più "macos-like" l'uso dei tablet?

Money quote: "On desktop, it’s not just the hardware that should adapt with an attached keyboard, but the software also should change to best fit the usage. To achieve this, iOS (and Android) should also have a desktop mode and it should be optimised for keyboard and mouse interactions. It’s little more than just responsive design. The moment the keyboard is attached, the entire system should change to, maybe not macOS, but something in the middle."

https://blog.newtonhq.com/can-the-ipad-replace-the-desktop-8bf5d91decb9

Questo signore, che è morto a 107 anni, aveva fatto cose mirabili

Money quote: "Mr. van Hulst is credited with helping to rescue as many as 600 children, yet he was haunted by what he could not do. With up to 100 children still in the nursery as it was about to be shut down that September, Mr. van Hulst was asked how many more he could smuggle out."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/obituaries/johan-van-hulst-who-helped-save-600-children-from-the-nazis-dies-at-107.html

Ogni canale ha le sue idiosincrasie. Questo canale ha anche un poeta residente. Che non sono io - ci mancherebbe - ma il buon Roberto R. Corsi. Un giorno potrete dire di averlo letto prima qui. Ammesso che lo possiate leggere altrove. Come fa infatti un poeta a farsi pubblicare?

Ci sono vari modi. Incluse conoscenze, raccomandazioni, appartenenze, soldi contanti. Oppure una lettera di presentazione. Che dovreste leggerla però, perché se pensate che la vita di un ventenne che cerca lavoro o vuole fare la startup sia complicata, vuol dire che non avete mai messo il contenuto dei vasi canopi della vostra anima in un pugno di versi, cercando poi di farne mercimonio per dargli un ultimo senso.

Altro che Facebook...

Money quote: “Ho nel cassetto un ultimo libro di poesie prima dell’andropausa. Poesie fuoriuscite copiosamente lungo l’ultimo quadrimestre 2017. Mi piacciono. Ho voluto inviarle a un pugno di editori, e ho scelto i più grandi (per motivi che vi saranno chiari sotto). Inviata la canonica mail con allegato, resto in attesa del terno al lotto fino a dopo le vacanze”

https://medium.com/@rrcorsi/la-mia-lettera-accompagnatoria-per-leditore-di-poesia-3cf0fd23f58b

Perché voi pensate che la rete sia una cosa seria, concertata, orchestrata. Invece è un simpatico meeting di anarchici egoisti capitalisti situazionisti, incompetentisti, furbeschi e truffaldini. Insomma, funziona per caso. Come la storia di Cloudflare e 1.1.1.1 dimostrano. (Però il servizio funziona alla grande).

Money quote: “Twitter cybersecurity celebrity @SwiftOnSecurity has been retweeting some of the more egregious allegations, such as 1.1.1.1 being used by Fortinet VPN as the virtual endpoint; 1.1.1.1 being used as the default logout for Nomadix controllers, which are primarily used in hospitality industry environments; AT&T Gigapower using 1.1.1.1 on an internal interface on at least one model of router-gateway, the Pace 5268AC, which effectively blocks this address; and even Vodafone Germany using it as an image caching server on their mobile network.

Huston is familiar with usages like this, and has also seen Wi-Fi hotspots using 1.1.1.1 as their router address. He's not impressed.

"Some folk, without any material to justify it, started configuring 1.1.1.1. Now, I can start using your IP address, I suppose, but we're both going to have a problem," Huston told ZDNet, laughing”

http://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/1-1-1-1-cloudflares-new-dns-attracting-gigabits-per-second-of-rubbish/

“There are two major products that came from Berkeley: LSD and Unix. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”

– Jeremy S. Anderson.

#citazioni

Sarà lei la prossima Vivian Maier? Così farebbe tornare di moda la Leica a vite...

Money quote: “Masha Ivashintsova was born in Russia, in 1942. At 18 she started taking photographs, and became involved the underground arts movement in St. Petersburg, then known as Leningrad. She shot prolifically on the streets of the city, with either her Leica IIIc or Rolleiflex. But she never showed her work to anyone—some of it she didn’t even develop. When she died, in 2000, she left 30,000 photographs—in the form of negatives and undeveloped film—in a box, where they remained, untouched, for 17 years”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-soviet-photos

E non poteva mancare però anche Milagros Caturla, la Vivian Maier catalana.

Secondo me, guardando le foto che non sono poi questa cosa stratosferica, ci sono anche delle speculazioni dietro. Perché poi fanno le mostre, i libri e soprattutto le stampe numerate.

Money quote: “Numerosi ricercatori e amanti della fotografia e dei misteri si sono attivati per cercare di individuare l’autore delle foto scoprendo che si tratta di una donna, di nome Milagros Caturla (1920-2008), che non ha mai esercitato l’arte della fotografia. La sua storia è stata paragonata a quella di Vivian Maier e la donna è stata così rinominata la “Vivian Maier catalana“. Anche lei, come la famosa pioniera franco–americana della street photography, non aveva distintivo ma possedeva di certo una grande creatività e passione per la sua città e per l’obbiettivo fotografico.
Le immagini risalgono circa al 1960, dichiara Begoña Fernández.”

https://barbarapicci.com/2017/05/26/milagros-caturla/

Se qualcuno è curioso di sapere come vive un freelance (o, nel mio caso, come si senta ma non sia mai riuscito a trovare le parole per esprimerlo) Liana Finck, cartoonist per il New Yorker, l’ha centrata in pieno.

Money quote: “I’m a wandering cubicle”

https://medium.com/@lianafinck/the-daily-rituals-of-a-new-yorker-cartoonist-freelance-edition-17ddea7470ae

Festeggiamenti per i 50 anni di "2001 Odissea nello spazio". La proiezione in 70mm da una nuova copia rischia di essere l'avvenimento cinematografico del decennio. Mannaggia che non ci sono proiezioni previste in Europa/Italia.

La proiezione di Cannes - e quindi la qualità della nuova copia - è garantita da Christopher Nolan.

Money quote: "Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Warner Bros. Pictures will debut an ‘unrestored’ 70mm print of the director’s groundbreaking science fiction epic at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival. Widely considered among the greatest films of the 20th century, 2001: A Space Odyssey will return to select U.S. theatres in 70mm beginning May 18, 2018.

Set for Saturday, May 12, the world premiere will be held during the Cannes Classics section of the Festival, featuring an introduction by award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan. The screening will also be attended by members of Stanley Kubrick’s family, including his daughter, Katharina Kubrick, and longstanding producing partner and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan"

È morto Isao Takahata, co-fondatore dello Studio Ghibli e regista di "Una tomba per le lucciole".

http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/04/morto-isao-takahata-studio-ghibli/

Zitti zitti i quattro grandi diventano infrastrutture private che si sostituiscono ai servizi universali dei paesi. Ad esempio Google Plus con un nuovo sistema di indicazione universale degli indirizzi, valido anche per aree remote e mai codificate.

Money quote: “Though more consistent addressing systems—especially in rural regions—are likely a good thing in other ways as well, there are reasons for caution here. Google’s blog post notes, “all that’s needed [to use the codes] is Google Maps on a smartphone.” For now, at least, this means those using the system are at least partially shackled to Google’s own app infrastructure. While that’s likely fine for ordinary civilian uses of the system, it may limit other applications.”

https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/google-plus-codes-help-map-remote-locations.html

Intricata come un giallo, appassionante come un’inchiesta - ed in effetti questo è: un’inchiesta storica - la ricerca della libreria progettata da Frank Lloyd Wright è tutta da leggere. E si fa leggere. Buona per il fine settimana.

Money quote: “When he took on the project in 1906, Wright was thirty-nine years old and already well-known among Chicago’s elite, but he was not a celebrity by any means. He was also in the middle of a secret affair that would end his marriage. “Those years between 1904 and 1909 were to be pivotal in Wright’s life,” Meryle Secrest writes in Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography. Before that period, Wright was a Midwestern family man who built lavish suburban homes. Afterward, he abandoned his family (including six children) in Oak Park and fled to Europe with his mistress (who was also his neighbor’s wife). When he returned to the States a few months later, he became an international figure who tackled grand public projects from Manhattan to Tokyo.”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/22/when-frank-lloyd-wright-designed-a-bookstore/

Un modo un po’ complicato ma piacevole per dire che le persone non sono tutte uguali.

Money quote: “Five years after the call from England, I was living with my boyfriend and our lover, an Australian grad student who spent three months of the year with us — her summer, our winter. After three years together, we tried to figure out a way to live together permanently, to raise children together. But distance and national borders defeated us; we loved each other, but not quite enough.”

https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-my-immigrant-parents-may-never-understand-c6aea51091ab

Negli Stati Uniti il matrimonio, istituzione ovunque in crisi, rinasce grazie alle unioni dello stesso sesso. E diventa una dichiarazione politica.

Money quote: “But there is one statistical tidbit that flies in the face of this conventional wisdom: A clear majority of same-sex couples who are living together are now married”

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/03/incredible-everlasting-institution-marriage/555320/

La recensione della tastiera Dodocool per iPad Pro 10.5 - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/la-recensione-della-tastiera-dodocool-per-ipad-pro-10-5/

Essere scrittori oggi.

Money quote: “You need to read voraciously, be able to view your manunoscript objectively enough to edit it, work on your author brand, build your mailing list, run a blog/website, maintain a social media presence, guest post, and so much more. All of these things take time, and they don’t offer direct rewards.”

https://writingcooperative.com/stop-romanticizing-your-writing-career-8d1de425a54b

Il primo gennaio dell’anno prossimo negli Usa comincia la rivoluzione: escono dal copyright e vanno nel pubblico dominio una tonnellata di libri musica e film. In questo articolo anche una buona ricapitolazione della storia del diritto di riproduzione in America (tldr: una cosa incivile).

Money quote: “This coming January, Charlie Chaplin’s film The Pilgrim and Cecil B. DeMille’s The 10 Commandments will slip the shackles of ownership, allowing any individual or company to release them freely, mash them up with other work, or sell them with no restriction. This will be true also for some compositions by Bela Bartok, Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay, Winston Churchill’s The World Crisis, Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Pigeons, e.e. cummings’s Tulips and Chimneys, Noël Coward’s London Calling! musical, Edith Wharton’s A Son at the Front, many stories by P.G. Wodehouse, and hosts upon hosts of forgotten works, according to research by the Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/557420

Le librerie indipendenti più famose del mondo. Ne conosco e ne ho visitate fin troppe, animé.

Money quote: “Imagine a New York City in which 48 bookstores were happily (and, one presumes, profitably) crammed into a five-block stretch of what was then Fourth Avenue, a stretch known as “Book Row.” “

https://lithub.com/the-10-most-famous-bookstores-in-the-world/