Ci stanno togliendo anche le ultime certezze: che l’intelligenza sia/non sia innata
Money quote: “On a recent visit to DNA.Land, I scanned down the list of traits they offered to tell me about. I stopped at intelligence.
I took a breath before I clicked.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561392/
Money quote: “On a recent visit to DNA.Land, I scanned down the list of traits they offered to tell me about. I stopped at intelligence.
I took a breath before I clicked.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561392/
Uso fin dal principio Scrivener, che ha decisamente modellato il mio modo di lavorare. Questo tizio però esagera un po’.
Money quote: “Just being able to have one document that was a few hundred pages long seemed like a dream, but let’s face it: when your writing style is one that hops about a timeline like a jackrabbit on cocaine, that’s still not terribly efficient. There was a lot of “CTRL+F ‘Chapter XX'” going on.
Enter Scrivener.”
https://www.thedebutanteball.com/how-tech-controls-my-chaos/
Money quote: “Just being able to have one document that was a few hundred pages long seemed like a dream, but let’s face it: when your writing style is one that hops about a timeline like a jackrabbit on cocaine, that’s still not terribly efficient. There was a lot of “CTRL+F ‘Chapter XX'” going on.
Enter Scrivener.”
https://www.thedebutanteball.com/how-tech-controls-my-chaos/
The Debutante Ball
How Tech Controls My Chaos
In life, I’m inseparable from my cell phone, but when it comes to writing, there is one program I can no longer function without: Scrivener. I love this program to bits. I’m a non-seque…
Le proteine non fanno male, dice la BBC. Costa solo troppo farle.
Money quote: “The risk of consuming too much protein is small, but the bigger risk might just be falling for overpriced products offering us more protein than we need. “Some products labelled as high protein aren’t, and they’re quite expensive. Anyway, consuming more protein than need is wasteful in terms of money, and it’s paid down the toilet,” says Johnstone.”
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180522-we-dont-need-nearly-as-much-protein-as-we-consume
Money quote: “The risk of consuming too much protein is small, but the bigger risk might just be falling for overpriced products offering us more protein than we need. “Some products labelled as high protein aren’t, and they’re quite expensive. Anyway, consuming more protein than need is wasteful in terms of money, and it’s paid down the toilet,” says Johnstone.”
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180522-we-dont-need-nearly-as-much-protein-as-we-consume
Bbc
How much protein is too much?
We’re led to believe the more protein the better when it comes to building muscle and losing weight. But are protein supplements, bars, and shakes helping or backfiring?
Sapere scegliere i manager giusti fa la differenza tra il successo e il fallimento. Più passa il tempo e più me ne convinco. Questa donna, Jennifer Bailey, ad esempio, è la ragione del successo di Apple Pay.
Money quote: “We launched in Japan [in October 2016]. One of the really important categories of payments there is for its rail system, so we [linked with the country’s] JR East and Suica transit cards. Add those to Apple Wallet and tap to go through the gate. Just last week, we were busily working on launching transit in Beijing and Shanghai. When we talk about replacing the wallet and not just payment cards, this is what we’re working on”
https://www.fastcompany.com/40571650/most-creative-people-2018-jennifer-bailey
Money quote: “We launched in Japan [in October 2016]. One of the really important categories of payments there is for its rail system, so we [linked with the country’s] JR East and Suica transit cards. Add those to Apple Wallet and tap to go through the gate. Just last week, we were busily working on launching transit in Beijing and Shanghai. When we talk about replacing the wallet and not just payment cards, this is what we’re working on”
https://www.fastcompany.com/40571650/most-creative-people-2018-jennifer-bailey
Fast Company
Meet the woman who deserves a thumbs up for Apple Pay’s growth
How Jennifer Bailey routinely does things that don’t scale in her efforts to popularize Apple Pay.
Rilassiamoci, la vita è facile: bastano cinque cosette e siamo a posto. Siamo noi scemi che non l’avevano capito.
Money quote: “A good life is from seeing it as a series of constructive — not reductive — thoughts. It’s about being self aware enough to know what we want. It’s about taking action, every day, to get there. And it’s about doing all of this even though we’re scared, trusting that there’s good shit on the other side”
https://medium.com/@krisgage/5-ways-to-have-a-good-life-55b62c9e964d
Money quote: “A good life is from seeing it as a series of constructive — not reductive — thoughts. It’s about being self aware enough to know what we want. It’s about taking action, every day, to get there. And it’s about doing all of this even though we’re scared, trusting that there’s good shit on the other side”
https://medium.com/@krisgage/5-ways-to-have-a-good-life-55b62c9e964d
Medium
5 Ways To Have A Good Life
See the world as a series of opportunities for you, and then choose
Gli smartphone, cioè le app, stanno facendo fuori il web così come lo conoscevamo.
Money quote: “Young, distracted and styled just-so, Anissa Kheloufi is part of a growing genus of Instagram junkies”
https://medium.com/bloomberg/smartphones-are-doing-to-websites-what-amazon-did-to-the-mall-d789a6cee119
Money quote: “Young, distracted and styled just-so, Anissa Kheloufi is part of a growing genus of Instagram junkies”
https://medium.com/bloomberg/smartphones-are-doing-to-websites-what-amazon-did-to-the-mall-d789a6cee119
Medium
Smartphones Are Doing to Websites What Amazon Did to the Mall
It took 20 years for e-commerce to bring on the shopping mall apocalypse. The next transformation will happen much faster.
Gli smartphone, cioè le app, stanno facendo fuori il web così come lo conoscevamo.
Money quote: “Young, distracted and styled just-so, Anissa Kheloufi is part of a growing genus of Instagram junkies”
https://medium.com/bloomberg/smartphones-are-doing-to-websites-what-amazon-did-to-the-mall-d789a6cee119
Money quote: “Young, distracted and styled just-so, Anissa Kheloufi is part of a growing genus of Instagram junkies”
https://medium.com/bloomberg/smartphones-are-doing-to-websites-what-amazon-did-to-the-mall-d789a6cee119
Medium
Smartphones Are Doing to Websites What Amazon Did to the Mall
It took 20 years for e-commerce to bring on the shopping mall apocalypse. The next transformation will happen much faster.
È arrivato il nuovo BlackBerry Key2 ma a quanto pare non piace.
Money quote: “The Key2’s biggest problem is its devotion to nostalgia, despite BlackBerry Mobile’s efforts to modernize it. The dual-camera system, gesture-equipped keyboard, and BlackBerry app suite are all attempts at updating an old platform, but not creating a new one.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17504714/blackberry-key2-review-smartphone-android
Money quote: “The Key2’s biggest problem is its devotion to nostalgia, despite BlackBerry Mobile’s efforts to modernize it. The dual-camera system, gesture-equipped keyboard, and BlackBerry app suite are all attempts at updating an old platform, but not creating a new one.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17504714/blackberry-key2-review-smartphone-android
The Verge
BlackBerry Key2 review: a keyboard with a phone
Nostalgia isn’t always good
Se volevate sapere come sta Johnny Deep, Rolling Stone ha pubblicato il suo ritratto definitivo
Money quote 1: "During my London visit, Depp is alternately hilarious, sly and incoherent. The days begin after dark and run until first light. There is a scared, hunted look about him. Despite grand talks about hitting the town, we never leave the house. As Depp's mind leads us down various rabbit holes, I often think of a line that he recited as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland: "Have I gone mad?""
Money quote 2: "A constant in Depp's business was his older sister Christi, who managed his day-to-day affairs. (She never responded to requests for comment for this story.) In 1999, they realized that his current management company couldn't handle his rapidly expanding financial affairs and they needed to move to a bigger firm. By then, Depp had moved above Sunset Boulevard to an 8,000-square-foot estate nicknamed "Dracula's Castle." He spent a day interviewing financial managers. His last meeting, he says, was with Robert and Joel Mandel, brothers who ran TMG. Depp says he immediately took a shine to Joel, the youngest child of an Auschwitz survivor. Depp saw a kindred spirit. "He was a nervous wreck," says Depp. "He was pouring sweat. He was broken." (TMG disputes this portrayal).
I ask him why he would place his money in the hands of a person he would describe as a "broken toy." Depp says because he felt a kinship: "The monofilament that goes through all my characters, if you really look, they're all fuckups. They're broken.""
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/johnny-depp-lawsuit-marriage-w521671
(Ps: praticamente c'è gloria quasi in ogni paragrafo di quest'articolo. Da un punto di vista giornalistico è una figata!)
Money quote 1: "During my London visit, Depp is alternately hilarious, sly and incoherent. The days begin after dark and run until first light. There is a scared, hunted look about him. Despite grand talks about hitting the town, we never leave the house. As Depp's mind leads us down various rabbit holes, I often think of a line that he recited as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland: "Have I gone mad?""
Money quote 2: "A constant in Depp's business was his older sister Christi, who managed his day-to-day affairs. (She never responded to requests for comment for this story.) In 1999, they realized that his current management company couldn't handle his rapidly expanding financial affairs and they needed to move to a bigger firm. By then, Depp had moved above Sunset Boulevard to an 8,000-square-foot estate nicknamed "Dracula's Castle." He spent a day interviewing financial managers. His last meeting, he says, was with Robert and Joel Mandel, brothers who ran TMG. Depp says he immediately took a shine to Joel, the youngest child of an Auschwitz survivor. Depp saw a kindred spirit. "He was a nervous wreck," says Depp. "He was pouring sweat. He was broken." (TMG disputes this portrayal).
I ask him why he would place his money in the hands of a person he would describe as a "broken toy." Depp says because he felt a kinship: "The monofilament that goes through all my characters, if you really look, they're all fuckups. They're broken.""
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/johnny-depp-lawsuit-marriage-w521671
(Ps: praticamente c'è gloria quasi in ogni paragrafo di quest'articolo. Da un punto di vista giornalistico è una figata!)
Rolling Stone
The Trouble With Johnny Depp
Multimillion-dollar lawsuits, a haze of booze and hash, a marriage gone very wrong and a lifestyle he can’t afford – inside the trials of Johnny Depp
Quel genio (tossico) di Pascal, morto a 39 anni, e la sua straordinaria intuizione sul vero problema dell'umanità: riuscire a stare seduti da soli in silenzio. Ma come si fa a stare seduti in silenzio, da soli, magari in una stanza, senza guardare il telefonino? Vale lo stesso?
Money quote: “Interestingly enough, much of this was done in his teen years, with some of it coming in his twenties. As an adult, inspired by a religious experience, he actually started to move towards philosophy and theology”
https://qz.com/1309242/the-most-important-skill-nobody-taught-you/
Money quote: “Interestingly enough, much of this was done in his teen years, with some of it coming in his twenties. As an adult, inspired by a religious experience, he actually started to move towards philosophy and theology”
https://qz.com/1309242/the-most-important-skill-nobody-taught-you/
Quartz
The most important skill nobody taught you
We are increasingly out of touch with who we are, and that’s a problem.
Sullo scrivere e sulla difficoltà nel riuscire a farlo.
Money quote: “The work of writing a novel isn’t predicated on punching in every day, but clocking in when you can. When you can find the time. As Ciplex founder Ilya Pozin notes, measuring productivity by hours worked every day is borderline prehistoric”
https://medium.com/s/an-outsiders-guide-to-publishing/when-your-art-is-the-thief-of-your-joy-e88e1b206b89
Money quote: “The work of writing a novel isn’t predicated on punching in every day, but clocking in when you can. When you can find the time. As Ciplex founder Ilya Pozin notes, measuring productivity by hours worked every day is borderline prehistoric”
https://medium.com/s/an-outsiders-guide-to-publishing/when-your-art-is-the-thief-of-your-joy-e88e1b206b89
Medium
When Your Art Is the Thief of Your Joy
I want your life. Or, perhaps to be more specific, I want your time. With fervor, I scan through your Instagram Stories and watch as you swan in and out of shops buying bouquets of flowers, vintage…
Alla scoperta dell'affascinante mondo dei microbrand. Che, non sembra, ma tirano da matti. E questo, più che su di loro (che peraltro sono genuinamente interessanti), dice molte più cose su di noi e su come stiamo diventando.
Money code: "I think this mass of micro brands with massively efficient marketing are, in aggregate, having a much bigger impact than anyone thinks. Using hyper-targeted marketing, just-in-time manufacturing, and social media, these brands find and engage their audience wherever they may be. Of course, small brands are nothing new, but they typically remained small companies. Now I’m hearing about more and more of these brands with tiny teams generating over $10M in sales, with higher-than-normal-retail profit margins. What is driving this new wave of commerce, and what are the implications?"
https://medium.com/positiveslope/attack-of-the-micro-brands-c0b7835c3633
Se volete condividere questa storia o altre qui su Telegram o sui social, ricordate che l'indirizzo di Mostly, I Write è https://news.1rj.ru/str/mostlyiwrite
Money code: "I think this mass of micro brands with massively efficient marketing are, in aggregate, having a much bigger impact than anyone thinks. Using hyper-targeted marketing, just-in-time manufacturing, and social media, these brands find and engage their audience wherever they may be. Of course, small brands are nothing new, but they typically remained small companies. Now I’m hearing about more and more of these brands with tiny teams generating over $10M in sales, with higher-than-normal-retail profit margins. What is driving this new wave of commerce, and what are the implications?"
https://medium.com/positiveslope/attack-of-the-micro-brands-c0b7835c3633
Se volete condividere questa storia o altre qui su Telegram o sui social, ricordate che l'indirizzo di Mostly, I Write è https://news.1rj.ru/str/mostlyiwrite
Medium
Attack Of The Micro Brands
In just ten minutes or so scrolling on Instagram, I counted over a dozen brands I had never heard of selling a product that caught my eye…
La storia di Wil Wheaton e della sua depressione cronica raccontate da se medesimo.
Money quote: “I have to tell you a painful truth: I missed out on a lot of things, during what are supposed to be the best years of my life, because I was paralyzed by What If-ing anxiety.
All the things that people do when they are living their lives … all those experiences that make up a life, my anxiety got in between me and doing them. So I wasn’t living. I was just existing”
https://medium.com/@wilw/my-name-is-wil-wheaton-i-live-with-chronic-depression-and-generalized-anxiety-i-am-not-ashamed-8f693f9c0af1
Money quote: “I have to tell you a painful truth: I missed out on a lot of things, during what are supposed to be the best years of my life, because I was paralyzed by What If-ing anxiety.
All the things that people do when they are living their lives … all those experiences that make up a life, my anxiety got in between me and doing them. So I wasn’t living. I was just existing”
https://medium.com/@wilw/my-name-is-wil-wheaton-i-live-with-chronic-depression-and-generalized-anxiety-i-am-not-ashamed-8f693f9c0af1
Medium
My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.
I am not ashamed to stand in front of the world and say, that I live with mental illness. I
Negli Usa la monetica digitale sta evolvendo piuttosto rapidamente. PayPal, tramite la controllata Venmo, sta lavorando su cose che noi umani europei ancora non abbiamo visto, come una card che permette di condividere automaticamente il conto della cena... e non è certo l'unica.
Money quote: "The Venmo launch comes at a time when there’s a shift in how younger consumers are using payment cards and banking services. Many are turning to online banks, like Simple, Varo and Chime, and transfer money through peer-to-peer (p2p) payment apps like PayPal, Venmo and, now, the bank-backed app Zelle. Tech companies like Apple and Google are also getting into the p2p space, with their own services like Apple Pay Cash and Google Pay Send, for example.
Venmo says its new card is in limited release starting today. Beta customers will be invited to sign up, and others will need to fill out a form to reserve their spot."
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/venmo-officially-launches-its-own-mastercard-branded-debit-card/
Money quote: "The Venmo launch comes at a time when there’s a shift in how younger consumers are using payment cards and banking services. Many are turning to online banks, like Simple, Varo and Chime, and transfer money through peer-to-peer (p2p) payment apps like PayPal, Venmo and, now, the bank-backed app Zelle. Tech companies like Apple and Google are also getting into the p2p space, with their own services like Apple Pay Cash and Google Pay Send, for example.
Venmo says its new card is in limited release starting today. Beta customers will be invited to sign up, and others will need to fill out a form to reserve their spot."
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/venmo-officially-launches-its-own-mastercard-branded-debit-card/
TechCrunch
Venmo officially launches its own MasterCard-branded debit card
Venmo today is officially introducing its own debit card in partnership with MasterCard, following beta tests of a Visa-branded debit card last year. The new card will allow Venmo users to pay anywhere MasterCard is accepted in the U.S., and will record transactions…
Il vero colpo basso al giornalismo italiano: Wikipedia oscurata per protesta.
https://www.ilpost.it/2018/07/03/wikipedia-bloccata/
Ps: poi come mi fa notare giustamente Luca le pagine so vedono lo stesso, eh. Non temete (troppo).
https://www.ilpost.it/2018/07/03/wikipedia-bloccata/
Ps: poi come mi fa notare giustamente Luca le pagine so vedono lo stesso, eh. Non temete (troppo).
Il Post
C’è tutta Wikipedia bloccata
In Italia e per protesta, contro le nuove e controverse regole sul copyright su cui sta discutendo l’Unione Europea
Compito in classe: questa estate imparate a disegnare. Esercizi a seguire
Money quote: "Tip: For the following 6 exercises I suggest you stick with one pen and one particular type of paper (for instance A5)."
https://medium.com/personal-growth/a-quick-beginners-guide-to-drawing-58213877715e
Money quote: "Tip: For the following 6 exercises I suggest you stick with one pen and one particular type of paper (for instance A5)."
https://medium.com/personal-growth/a-quick-beginners-guide-to-drawing-58213877715e
Medium
A quick beginner’s guide to drawing
6 drawing exercises to get you started right now!
Dopo tutte le strade portano a Roma, ecco tutti i voli portano a Roma (alla faccia di Alitalia). Ma ci sono poi anche tutti i voli che portano a XXX...
Money quote: "Flights to Rome is our follow up to one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility: Do all roads lead to Rome?! We've explored this question on a global scale and found a route from anywhere in the world!
Starting at 712.425 locations spread evenly around the globe, we calculated routes from everywhere on the planet. Intermodal routes are calculated to the airport based on the OpenStreetMap road network. From there on a flight network shows all flights to Rome. The network was created with data of Flightradar24. Flights to Rome is a project between data visualisation and art."
https://flightstorome.moovellab.com/#roadsinthesky
Money quote: "Flights to Rome is our follow up to one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility: Do all roads lead to Rome?! We've explored this question on a global scale and found a route from anywhere in the world!
Starting at 712.425 locations spread evenly around the globe, we calculated routes from everywhere on the planet. Intermodal routes are calculated to the airport based on the OpenStreetMap road network. From there on a flight network shows all flights to Rome. The network was created with data of Flightradar24. Flights to Rome is a project between data visualisation and art."
https://flightstorome.moovellab.com/#roadsinthesky
moovel lab
Flights to Rome - moovel lab
"Flights to Rome" is a data visualization project that explores the idiom, "all roads lead to Rome". The outcome is both information visualization and data art and unveils mobility infrastructures on land and in the air.
Certo che Donald Trump è veramente un personaggio marcio, non c'è che dire. Marcio a misura d'uomo. Ma sempre marcio.
Money quote: "Trump’s trust agreement is a little different. For one thing, it’s not blind—Trump’s children have admitted to providing their father with regular business updates. For another, the agreement allows him to withdraw profits and assets from the trust at any time. That means Trump has a direct and ongoing financial interest in any policy decision that could affect his businesses."
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/commander-in-thief/
Money quote: "Trump’s trust agreement is a little different. For one thing, it’s not blind—Trump’s children have admitted to providing their father with regular business updates. For another, the agreement allows him to withdraw profits and assets from the trust at any time. That means Trump has a direct and ongoing financial interest in any policy decision that could affect his businesses."
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/commander-in-thief/
Washington Monthly
Commander in Thief
How much of Trump’s profiteering is unconstitutional, and how much is just sleazy? A field guide.
Un fumetto, perché no: cosa succede se ci si stacca dal telefonino un po'
Money quote: "“Sometimes you just have to unplug from everything to find yourself again” — Robin Lee"
https://medium.com/personal-growth/this-is-what-happened-when-i-turned-my-smart-phone-off-6fc0d8c494be
Money quote: "“Sometimes you just have to unplug from everything to find yourself again” — Robin Lee"
https://medium.com/personal-growth/this-is-what-happened-when-i-turned-my-smart-phone-off-6fc0d8c494be
Medium
This Is What Happened When I Turned My Smart Phone Off
All because my dog threw up
Ma voi da bambini sareste stati in grado di resistere per un quarto d’ora senza mangiare il Marshmallow? Perché il successo che hai avuto nella vita lo capisci da quello.
Money quote: ““The capacity to hold out for a 2nd marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic background—and, in turn, that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561779/
Money quote: ““The capacity to hold out for a 2nd marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic background—and, in turn, that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561779/
Cosa succede nella testa dei bambini quando gli viene letta una storia? E soprattutto, cosa cambia se, anziché essere i genitori a leggerla, è un tablet?
Money quote: “In an ideal world, you would always be there to read to your child. The results of this small, preliminary study also suggest that, when parents do turn to electronic devices for young children, they should gravitate toward the most stripped-down version of a narrated, illustrated ebook, as opposed to either audio-only or animation.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/24/611609366/whats-going-on-in-your-childs-brain-when-you-read-them-a-story
Money quote: “In an ideal world, you would always be there to read to your child. The results of this small, preliminary study also suggest that, when parents do turn to electronic devices for young children, they should gravitate toward the most stripped-down version of a narrated, illustrated ebook, as opposed to either audio-only or animation.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/24/611609366/whats-going-on-in-your-childs-brain-when-you-read-them-a-story