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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Se fate la startup è facile che pensate al settore del B2C, dei prodotti per i consumatori. Invece, dovreste pensare meglio e farla per il settore B2B, i prodotti per le aziende. Le probabilità che ci riusciate sono enormemente maggiori.

Money quote: "B2B, however, is in your own control. The problems are known. You can just ask businesses what their problems are and make products to solve them."

https://www.atrium.co/blog/b2b-vs-b2c/
Tutto sui trend digitali della Nigeria (interessante)

https://terragongroup.com/insight/digital-trends-for-nigeria-in-2018/
È un articolo strano. La premessa è ovvia e più che condivisibile, almeno dal mio punto di vista. E anche il fatto che sia una delle cose più difficili da fare: eliminare il superfluo, essere e non avere, fare di più con meno.

Mi interessava il ragionamento, però. E lui fa un giro lungo e sinceramente poco condivisibile (perché le persone non sono aziende, perché le leggi dell'economia sono leggi sociali applicate ai mezzi di produzione e non alle persone, etc) per arrivare però a conclusioni sensate. Strano. Si fa leggere, però.

Money quote: "Being forced to work on a single monitor led to the discovery of something I hadn’t questioned before: do I really needed two monitors to get stuff done? Or, instead, was a lot easier to work on a single monitor?"

https://medium.com/@dsilvestre/simplify-life-what-can-you-remove-b4bd8b050197
Anche se stai andando bene, forse non stai facendo giusto. Occhio.

Money quote: "Throughout my career — whether this business or another — fulfillment eluded me, and I couldn’t figure out why. Neither money, nor accolades signified a cure. Take a look at the laundry-list of painfully successful individuals that slip into deep depression and you’ll understand it’s a harder code to crack than meets the eye.
I was bound to be a part of this group if I didn't figure it out (by no means am I immune to reverting back, but I feel pretty good about what I’m about to tell you). It didn’t matter how big the business got — the more it grew, the less responsible I felt."

https://psiloveyou.xyz/whats-even-better-than-happiness-69cc53c16aa6
La storia delle palme di Los Angeles è pazzesca e meravigliosa al tempo stesso. Oltre che totalmente artificiale. Vivamente consigliata. Buona domenica.

Money quote: "Palms, though they weren’t native to the Riviera, became indelibly associated with it. And the American developers eyeing Southern California got some ideas. Hey, they thought. This big chunk of desert-y scrubland we own is not that dissimilar from the Mediterranean sites of the Riviera. What if we took a page from their book, and started branding Los Angeles?"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-are-there-palm-trees-in-los-angeles
Il browser text based e moderno è qua

Money quote: "Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs."

https://www.brow.sh/
C'è gente strana su questo pianeta. Come il tizio (peraltro morto d'infarto) che ha scavato per 23 anni sotto casa sua, in Armenia, riportando alla luce un tempio.

Money quote: "Over the course of the 23 years that he spent digging his unique underground temple, Levon Arakelyan pulled out an estimated 450 truckloads of rubble, exclusively by metal bucket. He gave it all to a local company which used it in various construction projects.

Levon worked on his magnus opus until the day he died, in 2008, at the age of 67. He succumbed to a heart attack, but his wife believes it was the work and lack of rest that killed him."

Money quote2: "Levon Arakelyan’s 23-year-project is now the main tourist attraction in Arinj."

http://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/man-spends-23-years-carving-sprawling-underground-temple-under-his-house.html
Qualcuno la chiamerebbe "una dinata", cioè "quegli articoli lunghi come li sa fare Dini". Beh, ecco la mia lunga e appassionata recensione di un fumetto speciale che racconta l'adolescenza negli anni Ottanta a Taiwan. All'incrocio tra storia della Cina e il concetto delle generazioni

Money quote: "Il fumetto I miei anni ’80 a Taiwan di Chuang è particolare vista anche l’esperienza asiatica di chi scrive. A Taiwan mi è capitato per motivi di lavoro di andare varie volte e girare un po’ l’isola. Assaggiandone gli umori e i sapori, incontrandone gli abitanti e confrontandomi anche con quei grandi divari che segnano e tracciano gli spazi in Asia: la presenza di indiani, malesi e cinesi a Singapore, per esempio, oppure la particolare genesi di Hong Kong e il suo ruolo cangiante.

Taiwan fa un po’ una partita a se stante. L’isola è uno degli epicentri del sistema digitale planetario, ha fabbriche di altissimo livello per la produzione di silicio (come Giappone e Corea del Sud, ma come non hanno altri paesi a parte alcune cose in Vietnam) ed è proprietaria di grandi aziende come ad esempio l’azienda conosciuta come Foxconn, che poi ha le sue fabbriche in Cina (Shenzen) e in Brasile."

http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/10/sean-chuang-anni-80-taiwan/
Un ristorante di una catena cinese (della giapponese Panasonic) è diventato completamente automatico. Robot ovunque come piovesse

Money quote: “Although the new restaurant is automated, it still serves the same hot pot cuisine that patrons are used to seeing at Haidilao. This means diners have their vegetables, meat and other ingredients cooked in boiling broth or a hot pot. Bloomberg reports that at the restaurant, “robots will take orders, prepare and deliver raw meat and fresh vegetables to customers to plop into soups prepared at their tables.””

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanabandoim/2018/10/26/first-restaurant-with-fully-automated-kitchen-opens-in-beijing/
A quanto pare, spiega il New York Times, usare telefono e tablet fa male alle giovani generazioni. E soprattutto alle giovanissime.

Money quote: “Tim Cook won't let his nephew join social networks. Bill Gates banned cellphones for his kids until they were teenagers, and Melinda wished they had waited even longer. Steve Jobs wouldn't let his young children near iPads. Former editor of Wired, now CEO of a robotics company Chris Anderson says "On the scale between candy and crack cocaine, it’s closer to crack cocaine...This is going straight to the pleasure centers of the developing brain. This is beyond our capacity as regular parents to understand."”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html
"La seule révolution possible , c'est d'essayer de s'améliorer soi-même , en espérant que les autres fassent la même démarche . Le monde ira mieux alors ."

Georges Brassens disparu le 29 octobre 1981
Epica. Disaster movie. Citazionista. Divertente. Era una catena retail talmente avanti rispetto ai suoi tempi che è scomparsa senza lasciare traccia. L’ultima frontiera del marketing: la non esperienza.

Money quote: “From 1972 to 1984, Best Products collaborated with the design firm SITE to transform many of its stores into stunning and bizarre works of art. These special showrooms, as they were called, generated fanfare, admiration, and controversy across the United States. They were hotly debated in architecture circles, and ultimately became textbook examples of postmodern architecture—playful and critical, providing mass appeal while challenging assumptions about how “serious” art should look, and where it should be found.

By the mid-1990s, they had all disappeared”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-superstores-architecture
Uno sviluppatore americano spiega nel dettaglio quanto ha guadagnato, anno per anno, lavorando per aziende grandi e piccole - inclusa Yahoo. Da 48mila di stipendio di entrata a 220mila dolllari prima di andare a fare il freelance. Molto interessante anche se un po’ verboso.

Money quote: “In my sixteen year career, I averaged a pay increase of $10,000 per year, even when taking into account several years of salary freezes at MatrixOne and Yahoo. As such, I suspect I’d be making around $250,000 if I was working full time today.

It’s also important to understand that I never asked for a raise and only negotiated other details occassionally (as mentioned in the post). I never really felt comfortable with negotiations prior to working for myself, and generally was happy with the offers I received”

https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2018/10/my-somewhat-complete-salary-history-software-engineer/
Quante persone possono vivere sul nostro pianeta? Quante risorse cioè sono disponibili per sfamare e vestire gli esseri umani? C’è un numero massimo. L’ultima volta si è detto sette miliardi. Ma come si fa a calcolarlo? E soprattutto, ha senso fare questo calcolo?

Come al solito, ci sono forti incomprensioni su come funzionino le popolazioni.

Money quote: “Despite its seeming scientific precision, the claim is old, not new – the latest iteration of the longstanding assertion that our population and consumption might soon exceed the Earth’s fixed ‘carrying capacity’. The concept, tellingly, owes its origin to 19th-century shipping, referring to the payload capacities of steam ships. It jumped from the inanimate to the terrestrial at the end of the 19th century, describing the maximum number of livestock or wild game that grassland and rangeland ecosystems could sustain.

Applied to ecology, the concept is problematic. Cargo doesn’t multiply of its own volition. Nor can the capacity of an ecosystem be determined from an engineer’s drawings. Nonetheless, environmental scientists have, for decades, applied the concept to human societies with a claimed precision that belies its nebulous nature.”

Money quote 2: "In reality, human fertility and consumption work nothing like this. Affluence and modernisation bring falling, not rising fertility rates. As our material circumstances improve, we have fewer children, not more. The explosion of human population over the past 200 years has not been a result of rising fertility rates but rather falling mortality rates. With better public health, nutrition, physical infrastructure and public safety we live much longer."

https://aeon.co/ideas/the-earths-carrying-capacity-for-human-life-is-not-fixed
Una bambina muore, qualche decina di anni fa, pochi giorni dopo essere nata in una poverissima città mineraria dell’America Latina. Viene avvolta in un telo con un fiocco rosso e sepolta vicino a una chiesa abbandonata. Anni dopo, viene scoperto il corpo con numerose mutazioni, in particolare quelle del cranio, e viene venduta a un collezionista spagnolo. Si parla di corpo di un aieno anche se alla fine il test del DNA prova che era umana. Ma qui inizia la cosa seria, perché in un mondo disumanizzato e con una industria televisiva e libraria che specula su chi crede agli UFO, si è persa ogni traccia di umanità e tornano i pregiudizi dell’Ottocento: il corpo delle bestie, senz’anima, pseudo-umane.

Siamo fatto così, siamo delle creature ignoranti e avide. E quella era solo una bambina morta appena nata, sepolta con intenzione probabilmente dalla madre.

Money quote: “For archaeologists and anthropologists, the ethical lapses in the handling of the girl’s body are glaring. “My first reaction as bioarchaeologist is I wasn’t happy. I was a little disgusted,” says Sabrina Agarwal at UC Berkeley. She ticked off the issues: how the girl’s body was found and sold, the lack of local stakeholders, the lack of an ethics statement in the published paper. “It’s part of the darker history of all of bioarchaeology and anthropology. It’s not like we are not part of it,” says Agarwal. “But contemporary bioarchaeologists and anthropologists are very sensitive to how they look at human remains.””

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/556625/