Internet e l'ecommerce sono l'inizio della fine.
Money quote: "All told, “we are all accumulating mountains of things,” said Mark A. Cohen, the director of retail studies at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He sometimes asks his students to count the number of things they have on them in class, and once they start counting up gadgets and cords and accessories, they end up near 50. “Americans have become a society of hoarders,” Cohen said. Montoya said she has more stuff now that she has started shopping online: “It’s easier to accumulate more, and it’s easier to spend more.”"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/online-shopping-and-accumulation-of-junk/567985/
Money quote: "All told, “we are all accumulating mountains of things,” said Mark A. Cohen, the director of retail studies at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He sometimes asks his students to count the number of things they have on them in class, and once they start counting up gadgets and cords and accessories, they end up near 50. “Americans have become a society of hoarders,” Cohen said. Montoya said she has more stuff now that she has started shopping online: “It’s easier to accumulate more, and it’s easier to spend more.”"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/online-shopping-and-accumulation-of-junk/567985/
The Atlantic
‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things’
How online shopping and cheap prices are turning Americans into hoarders
Vi ricordate "Don't be evil", il vecchio motto di Google che sembrava una excusatio non petita poi puntualmente segnale di una problematicità che marca la vita dell'azienda californiana? Ecco, adesso sull'intelligenza artificiale, senza che nessuno lo chiedesse loro, Sundai Pichai tira fuori i principi di Google sulle AI. Andiamo bene...
Money quote: "We recognize that such powerful technology raises equally powerful questions about its use. How AI is developed and used will have a significant impact on society for many years to come. As a leader in AI, we feel a deep responsibility to get this right. So today, we’re announcing seven principles to guide our work going forward. These are not theoretical concepts; they are concrete standards that will actively govern our research and product development and will impact our business decisions."
https://blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/
Money quote: "We recognize that such powerful technology raises equally powerful questions about its use. How AI is developed and used will have a significant impact on society for many years to come. As a leader in AI, we feel a deep responsibility to get this right. So today, we’re announcing seven principles to guide our work going forward. These are not theoretical concepts; they are concrete standards that will actively govern our research and product development and will impact our business decisions."
https://blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/
Google
AI at Google: our principles
We’re announcing seven principles to guide our work in AI.
I ricconi indiani e il loro rapporto piuttosto malato con la Gran Bretagna.
Money quote: “The most prominent among these émigré moguls is India’s “King of Good Times”, Vijay Mallya, the one-time aviation magnate and brewer, who transformed Kingfisher beer into a global brand. A few years ago, Mallya was one of India’s most celebrated industrialists, famous for his mullet haircut and flamboyant lifestyle. But in early 2016, Indian authorities filed charges relating to the collapse of his Kingfisher airline, which went bust in spectacular fashion in 2012, leaving behind mountainous debts and irate, unpaid staff. And so, facing allegations of financial irregularities and of refusing to repay outstanding loans, Mallya quietly boarded a plane for Britain, too.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/10/the-staggering-rise-of-indias-super-rich
Money quote: “The most prominent among these émigré moguls is India’s “King of Good Times”, Vijay Mallya, the one-time aviation magnate and brewer, who transformed Kingfisher beer into a global brand. A few years ago, Mallya was one of India’s most celebrated industrialists, famous for his mullet haircut and flamboyant lifestyle. But in early 2016, Indian authorities filed charges relating to the collapse of his Kingfisher airline, which went bust in spectacular fashion in 2012, leaving behind mountainous debts and irate, unpaid staff. And so, facing allegations of financial irregularities and of refusing to repay outstanding loans, Mallya quietly boarded a plane for Britain, too.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/10/the-staggering-rise-of-indias-super-rich
the Guardian
The staggering rise of India’s super-rich
The long read: A new elite has accumulated more money, more quickly, than plutocrats in almost any country in history
I Baby boomers invecchiano e sono tanto: aumentano i divorzi “grigi” (over 50) negli Usa. Soprattutto, questo blocco demografico porta con se una idea della coppia e del matrimonio completamente differente rispetto al passato. Il divorzio infatti arriva con maggiore facilità e per differenti motivi. Oppure no. Grande articolo di Aeon.
Money quote: “The basis for heterosexual marriage in the US has changed dramatically over the past century. Scholars have noted that, beginning in the 20th century, couples were bound together by love, but also by a set of mutually binding responsibilities toward one another. In its current form, divorce under this marital framework typically involves partners engaging in behaviours that harm themselves or their spouses. In these ways, they violate their vows of binding responsibilities, and divorce is therefore acceptable.
The social unrest of the 1960s, however, brought a different set of expectations into some marriages. The Baby Boomers who came of age during this period began to see their own personal self-actualisation as the most important goal in their lives. Marriages soon became sites of self-empowerment and self-development for many couples. If at any point in time, one partner in a marriage was no longer fulfilled, that person could reasonably seek a divorce”
https://aeon.co/ideas/baby-boomers-are-divorcing-for-surprisingly-old-fashioned-reasons
Money quote: “The basis for heterosexual marriage in the US has changed dramatically over the past century. Scholars have noted that, beginning in the 20th century, couples were bound together by love, but also by a set of mutually binding responsibilities toward one another. In its current form, divorce under this marital framework typically involves partners engaging in behaviours that harm themselves or their spouses. In these ways, they violate their vows of binding responsibilities, and divorce is therefore acceptable.
The social unrest of the 1960s, however, brought a different set of expectations into some marriages. The Baby Boomers who came of age during this period began to see their own personal self-actualisation as the most important goal in their lives. Marriages soon became sites of self-empowerment and self-development for many couples. If at any point in time, one partner in a marriage was no longer fulfilled, that person could reasonably seek a divorce”
https://aeon.co/ideas/baby-boomers-are-divorcing-for-surprisingly-old-fashioned-reasons
Aeon
Baby boomers are divorcing for surprisingly old-fashioned reasons | Aeon Ideas
Baby Boomers once did a lot of things differently, but they are now getting divorced for old-fashioned reasons
Un bel racconto breve di Ottessa Moshfegh ambientato in Cina.
Money quote: “I felt an immediate affinity with Adil, as if I were meeting someone I’d known all my life for the first time. We locked eyes, and in that instant it was understood: there was something between us.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-man-in-xinjiang/
Money quote: “I felt an immediate affinity with Adil, as if I were meeting someone I’d known all my life for the first time. We locked eyes, and in that instant it was understood: there was something between us.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-man-in-xinjiang/
The New Yorker
The Man in Xinjiang
The bus pulled away, and it was suddenly very quiet, the late-afternoon sky irrevocably clear, as if nothing bad could happen—not here, not anywhere.
Esercizi di retorica: dimostrare entrambi i (contrversi) casi riguardo Tesla e il suo creatore Elon Musk. Una Monday Note che è un classico.
Money quote: “Now 15-years-old, Tesla enjoys a media presence that’s well out of proportion with the size of its sales. In the first quarter of this year, the company sold fewer than 30,000 cars; for reference, Toyota sells about 2.5M per quarter, 80 times more. The extravagant attention can be explained, at least in part, by Elon Musk’s impressive PR skills. Musk is a veritable quote machine, constantly providing fodder across the whole spectrum of media from blogs to Twitter, from the Wall Street Journal to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The attention may be inordinate, but it isn’t entirely empty. It would mean nothing if Tesla didn’t have a serious product, and Tesla’s Model S, a “green car for carnivores” as one wag rightly calls it, amply rewards those who pay $100K for the car’s sexy styling, swift acceleration, and pleasant road manners. As industry observers have noted, the Model S is outselling comparable high-end BMWs and Mercedes, first in the US and now in Europe.”
https://mondaynote.com/tesla-both-sides-of-the-case-32bf53b8f4f1
Money quote: “Now 15-years-old, Tesla enjoys a media presence that’s well out of proportion with the size of its sales. In the first quarter of this year, the company sold fewer than 30,000 cars; for reference, Toyota sells about 2.5M per quarter, 80 times more. The extravagant attention can be explained, at least in part, by Elon Musk’s impressive PR skills. Musk is a veritable quote machine, constantly providing fodder across the whole spectrum of media from blogs to Twitter, from the Wall Street Journal to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The attention may be inordinate, but it isn’t entirely empty. It would mean nothing if Tesla didn’t have a serious product, and Tesla’s Model S, a “green car for carnivores” as one wag rightly calls it, amply rewards those who pay $100K for the car’s sexy styling, swift acceleration, and pleasant road manners. As industry observers have noted, the Model S is outselling comparable high-end BMWs and Mercedes, first in the US and now in Europe.”
https://mondaynote.com/tesla-both-sides-of-the-case-32bf53b8f4f1
Monday Note
Tesla: Both Sides Of The Case
by Jean-Louis Gassée
Com’è costruirsi una relazione fuori dal matrimonio con una app per persone sposate come Ashley Madison? Molto, molto diverso da quel che vi aspettate. La prospettiva è quella femminile, della donna che vuole tradire.
Money quote: “I’ve been sexting with someone new, a new match from the site, Things were going well, until I realized that he wanted to have a threesome. I told him I didn’t want that. I was looking for something else, sex yes, but also, a connection. He said he would be open to that … if I were willing to have a threesome. This is just the way it seems to go with me and men, my husband or otherwise. There’s their needs, their desires, their priorities, and then beneath that — mine. I thought that maybe the problem was marriage or monogamy, but now I don’t know. I don’t know why no matter the scenario, they always seem to have the power.”
https://medium.com/the-cut/i-went-on-ashley-madison-to-try-to-have-an-affair-50dc30de71be
Money quote: “I’ve been sexting with someone new, a new match from the site, Things were going well, until I realized that he wanted to have a threesome. I told him I didn’t want that. I was looking for something else, sex yes, but also, a connection. He said he would be open to that … if I were willing to have a threesome. This is just the way it seems to go with me and men, my husband or otherwise. There’s their needs, their desires, their priorities, and then beneath that — mine. I thought that maybe the problem was marriage or monogamy, but now I don’t know. I don’t know why no matter the scenario, they always seem to have the power.”
https://medium.com/the-cut/i-went-on-ashley-madison-to-try-to-have-an-affair-50dc30de71be
Medium
I Went on Ashley Madison to Try to Have an Affair – The Cut – Medium
I thought an affair could help me escape my marriage. I was wrong
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Mentre si discute sui rischi delle Simbox Iliad per la sicurezza nazionale, online si vendono SIM Lycamobile già attive
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Gwyneth Paltrow (G.P.) ha creato un’azienda che si chiama Goop e vale 250 milioni di dollari. Soprattutto, come racconta qui il New York Times, ha creato un ideale si donna che ovviamente è come (sembra essere) lei.
Viviamo tempi interessanti.
Money quote: “The first iteration of the company was only these lists — where to go and what to buy once you get there — via a newsletter she emailed out of her kitchen, the first one with recipes for turkey ragù and banana-nut muffins. One evening, at a party in London, one of the newsletter’s recipients, a venture capitalist named Juliet de Baubigny, told her, “I love what you’re doing with Goop.” G.P., as she is called by nearly everyone in her employ, didn’t even know what a venture capitalist was. She was using off-the-shelf newsletter software. But De Baubigny became a “godmother” to Paltrow, she said. She encouraged her vision and “gave permission” to start thinking about how to monetize it.“
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/magazine/big-business-gwyneth-paltrow-wellness.html
Viviamo tempi interessanti.
Money quote: “The first iteration of the company was only these lists — where to go and what to buy once you get there — via a newsletter she emailed out of her kitchen, the first one with recipes for turkey ragù and banana-nut muffins. One evening, at a party in London, one of the newsletter’s recipients, a venture capitalist named Juliet de Baubigny, told her, “I love what you’re doing with Goop.” G.P., as she is called by nearly everyone in her employ, didn’t even know what a venture capitalist was. She was using off-the-shelf newsletter software. But De Baubigny became a “godmother” to Paltrow, she said. She encouraged her vision and “gave permission” to start thinking about how to monetize it.“
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/magazine/big-business-gwyneth-paltrow-wellness.html
NY Times
How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million (Published 2018)
Inside the growth of the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.
Un problema chiamato Donald Trump.
Money quote: “If any past president had acted the way Trump acted beside Putin or said what Trump said at the VFW convention, it would have been shocking and surreal. Because prior to Trump, past presidents all acted -- generally speaking --in a consistent way. They were measured in their public statements. They were careful in matters of international diplomacy. They were committed, again, generally speaking, to taking the high road. That doesn't mean presidents before Trump acted perfectly presidential all the time. They did not. But, they always had in their mind what "being presidential" meant”
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/26/politics/donald-trump-media-challenge/index.html
Money quote: “If any past president had acted the way Trump acted beside Putin or said what Trump said at the VFW convention, it would have been shocking and surreal. Because prior to Trump, past presidents all acted -- generally speaking --in a consistent way. They were measured in their public statements. They were careful in matters of international diplomacy. They were committed, again, generally speaking, to taking the high road. That doesn't mean presidents before Trump acted perfectly presidential all the time. They did not. But, they always had in their mind what "being presidential" meant”
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/26/politics/donald-trump-media-challenge/index.html
CNN
The truly unprecedented challenge of covering Donald Trump
If everything is the biggest, worst, most stunning thing ever, then how can anything actually accurately be described that way?
La qualità del bacio come elemento cardine nell’articolazione di un rapporto.
Money quote: “(Like for example, one night I was on a first date with a woman who seemed more interested in planting her lips and copious amounts of tongue anywhere in the general vicinity of my mandible except for on my actual mouth. I think she even spent some time salivating on the neck beard. She was not at all happy when I declined to go home with her and left me 17 voicemails in a two-hour span vulgarly reminding me of what I was missing out on. It didn’t work out but we remain cordial.)”
https://psiloveyou.xyz/different-kissing-styles-fa6d590e0072
Money quote: “(Like for example, one night I was on a first date with a woman who seemed more interested in planting her lips and copious amounts of tongue anywhere in the general vicinity of my mandible except for on my actual mouth. I think she even spent some time salivating on the neck beard. She was not at all happy when I declined to go home with her and left me 17 voicemails in a two-hour span vulgarly reminding me of what I was missing out on. It didn’t work out but we remain cordial.)”
https://psiloveyou.xyz/different-kissing-styles-fa6d590e0072
P.S. I Love You
Different Kissing Styles
An abrupt early stage breakup
Noise from the net:
Una volta (lo racconta Benedetto Croce, se non ricordo male) uno che passava sotto il balcone sul quale sedeva Salvatore Di Giacomo lo salutò cordialmente: “Come state, don Salvatore?”, “Non vedi? Sto morendo”.
Una volta (lo racconta Benedetto Croce, se non ricordo male) uno che passava sotto il balcone sul quale sedeva Salvatore Di Giacomo lo salutò cordialmente: “Come state, don Salvatore?”, “Non vedi? Sto morendo”.
Abbiamo avuto due o tremila anni di filosofia e meno di cinquecento di scienza. Eppure potrebbe essere solo quest’ultima l’attività umana capace di rispondere alle grandi domande. (Ma quali sono poi le grandi domande?)
Money quote: “Science has proved itself to be a reliable way to approach all kinds of questions about the physical world. As a scientist, I am led to wonder whether its ability to provide understanding is unlimited. Can it in fact answer all the great questions, the ‘big questions of being’, that occur to us?”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-its-only-science-that-can-answer-all-the-big-questions
Money quote: “Science has proved itself to be a reliable way to approach all kinds of questions about the physical world. As a scientist, I am led to wonder whether its ability to provide understanding is unlimited. Can it in fact answer all the great questions, the ‘big questions of being’, that occur to us?”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-its-only-science-that-can-answer-all-the-big-questions
Aeon
Why it’s only science that can answer all the big questions | Aeon Ideas
All the big questions about our world that can be answered at all can be answered by science
Negli ultimi anni il programma YouTube da vedere per gli amanti della fotografia era stato Digital Rev Tv, prodotto da un negozio di fotocamere di Hong Kong. Uno spettacolo. Poi si è rotto tutto.
Ma il presentatore (e autore) Kai continua con il suo stile unico. Qui di seguito, un giro a Venezia con la Ricoh Gr 1 a pellicola e qualche cenno anche alla Ricoh Gr II digitale (che è la mia macchina fotografica, BTW). - in inglese.
https://youtu.be/gdq1VJTmsvk
Ma il presentatore (e autore) Kai continua con il suo stile unico. Qui di seguito, un giro a Venezia con la Ricoh Gr 1 a pellicola e qualche cenno anche alla Ricoh Gr II digitale (che è la mia macchina fotografica, BTW). - in inglese.
https://youtu.be/gdq1VJTmsvk
YouTube
Ricoh GR1 // The F Word - Ep. 02
The most iconic premium film compact camera. Ever. Well, one of them.
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Letture per l’autunno: il nuovo libro di Lisa Brennan Jobs, la prima figlia di Steve Jobs
Money quote: “When I was 27, my father invited me to join for a few days on a yacht trip that he, my stepmother, my siblings, and the babysitter were taking in the Mediterranean. He didn’t usually invite me on vacations. I went for a long weekend.
Off the coast of the South of France my father said we were going to make a stop in the Alpes-Maritimes to meet a friend for lunch. He wouldn’t say who the friend was. We took a boat to the dock, where a van picked us up and drove us to a lunch at a villa in Èze.
It turned out to be Bono’s villa. He met us out front wearing jeans, a T-shirt, and the same sunglasses I’d seen him wearing in pictures and on album covers.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter
Money quote: “When I was 27, my father invited me to join for a few days on a yacht trip that he, my stepmother, my siblings, and the babysitter were taking in the Mediterranean. He didn’t usually invite me on vacations. I went for a long weekend.
Off the coast of the South of France my father said we were going to make a stop in the Alpes-Maritimes to meet a friend for lunch. He wouldn’t say who the friend was. We took a boat to the dock, where a van picked us up and drove us to a lunch at a villa in Èze.
It turned out to be Bono’s villa. He met us out front wearing jeans, a T-shirt, and the same sunglasses I’d seen him wearing in pictures and on album covers.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter
Vanity Fair
Growing Up Jobs
In an excerpt from her memoir, Small Fry, the author reflects on Jobs’s privacy, his temper, and watching a legend grow before her eyes.
In arrivo Pixel 3 XL: lo smartphone di Google si ispira all’iPhone X - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/08/25/tecnologia/in-arrivo-pixel-xl-lo-smartphone-di-google-si-ispira-alliphone-x-WHrh3xuQqYbk6BllbxzbyH/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/08/25/tecnologia/in-arrivo-pixel-xl-lo-smartphone-di-google-si-ispira-alliphone-x-WHrh3xuQqYbk6BllbxzbyH/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
In arrivo Pixel 3 XL: lo smartphone di Google si ispira all’iPhone X
Anche Mountain View segue la scelta di design fatta da Apple un anno fa e subito ripresa da molti produttori coreani e cinesi. Il nuovo top di gamma avrà la caratteristica “tacca” per la videocamera frontale
Un Paese dala superiore civiltà. Non solo il Giappone ha una parola per indicare chi compra libri senza leggerli – Tsundoku, un’arte vera e propria – ma oltretutto non è neanche un insulto, bensì una semplice constatazione. Ahhh, partirei stasera stessa.
Money quote: “"The phrase 'tsundoku sensei' appears in text from 1879 according to the writer Mori Senzo," Prof Gerstle explained. "Which is likely to be satirical, about a teacher who has lots of books but doesn't read them."
While this might sound like tsundoku is being used as an insult, Prof Gerstle said the word does not carry any stigma in Japan”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-44981013
Money quote: “"The phrase 'tsundoku sensei' appears in text from 1879 according to the writer Mori Senzo," Prof Gerstle explained. "Which is likely to be satirical, about a teacher who has lots of books but doesn't read them."
While this might sound like tsundoku is being used as an insult, Prof Gerstle said the word does not carry any stigma in Japan”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-44981013
BBC News
Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
Do you have a habit of picking up books which you never quite get around to reading? That's tsundoku.
E adesso abbiamo i corsi gratuiti anche su Google. Che pare siano buoni per gli imprenditori e i manager, se non altro.
Money quote: “These classes, like many others, are all free. You can find most of them through Class Central. Here are a few of the most appealing.”
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/google-free-online-courses-for-entrepreneurs-marketers-business-executives.html
Money quote: “These classes, like many others, are all free. You can find most of them through Class Central. Here are a few of the most appealing.”
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/google-free-online-courses-for-entrepreneurs-marketers-business-executives.html
Inc.com
These Free Online Courses From Google Will Boost Your Career No Matter What Business You're In
From product design to LinkedIn strategies, Google has a lot to teach executives and entrepreneurs.