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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Money quote: "A useless day, the writer tells themselves. No money earned. Nothing accomplished. They fear pitching that same editor again so quickly because two declines in a row would really fuck with their self worth. So they wait, trying to think of another idea for a story. A shittier one perhaps? With more obvious potential to be clickable? They read what’s having success on a number of sites they’d like to pitch to see where the editorial vision is pointing at the moment. It very well may not be where it was yesterday. At no point in the hours entailed here is the writer being paid, nor is there any guarantee they ever will be."

https://medium.com/@lukeoneil47/why-freelance-writers-are-a-fucking-pain-in-the-ass-with-broken-brains-583849c62d52
E insomma, questa insana passione che ho per la scrittura, tanto da definirmi con il nome di questo canale, alla fine cos'è? Un mestiere o una vocazione? Avvisi non completamente idioti per chi vuole scrivere.

Money quote: "There is nothing wrong with wanting to turn your passion in to a successful career. But if all you’re doing it for is because of the money, maybe money is your passion. I would write for free, I think most creators love what they do so much that they are doing exactly that with a job to support themselves and their families. Writing is what I love to do, I write for most of my life and most of the time its free. I don’t get paid to edit my novel or write short stories. I write for the pleasure of writing, because the world is calmer and bigger when I finish a project. Any creator who must be paid to create is not in the business of creating, they are in the business of money making. What ever you do with your life, make sure it’s what you want, make sure it’s a dream rather than a harsh reality."

https://medium.com/@ellie.wood/advice-for-writers-and-all-creators-245150697d1b
Momento shampoo: condividete le vostre idee, è meno difficile di quel che si pensi (ma perché?)

Money quote: "We think that our actions are like a blaring siren to those around us, that everyone within earshot will stop what they’re doing and pay attention to our idea or our work. The reality, however, isn’t nearly as distressing as we think. People aren’t paying as much attention to us as we think - and that’s a good thing."

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/afraid-share-your-idea-dont-adam-hoette
Cosa fanno gli ex politici come Joe Lieberman, che è stato senatore democratico e candidato all vicepresidenza Usa? Oggi diventa lobbista per la cinese ZTE, ieri però la definiva “una minaccia per la sicurezza nazionale”. Pecunia non olet.

Money quote: “The ex-Senator told Politico that, despite his registration, he wouldn’t actually be lobbying for the firm. Rather, he hoped to “raise the level of trust in ZTE.” Lieberman certainly should understand the trust deficit the company faces. In 2010, he signed a letter saying ZTE and another Chinese telecom company, Huawei, could threaten American national security.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-lieberman-called-chinese-telecom-giant-zte-a-national-security-threat-now-hes-a-lobbyist-for-it
Perché Facebook, Amazon e Google vogliono diventare una banca - il mio articolo per Wired.it

Money quote: “A Shanghai come a Pechino (ma anche nella Chinatown milanese o parigina, per dire) si entra in un ristorante con dei codici qr sul tavolo, ci si siede e si scansiona il proprio con il telefonino usando però direttamente WeChat, si ordina, si mangia e si paga il tutto con Alipay. Tutta la parte di gestione dell’ordine e dei pagamenti avviene dentro il telefonino, il cameriere porta solo le cose da mangiare. E anche il telefonino alla fine è irrilevante perché app come WeChat sono diventate un sistema operativo virtuale e trasversale ai vari produttori ed ecosistemi.”

https://www.wired.it/economia/finanza/2019/01/26/banca-facebook-amazon-google/
Una bella intervista a Gino Strada. Buona domenica.

Money quote: “Come fu la prima riunione, nel 1994?
«A casa mia a Milano, fino a ore tarde. Carlo Garbagnati, una ventina d’amici, non tanti medici (erano scettici). E la mia adorata Teresa, che sarebbe diventata insostituibile. Ci fu una cena al Tempio d’Oro, in viale Monza. Raccogliemmo 12 milioni di lire, ma volevamo cominciare dal genocidio in Ruanda e non bastavano. Ne servivano 250. Io dissi: beh, ragazzi, firmiamo 10 milioni di cambiali a testa... Per fortuna venni invitato da Costanzo e, puf, la tv è questa cosa qui: in un paio di mesi, arrivarono 850 milioni. Gente che mi suonava al campanello di casa, ricordo una busta con dentro duemila lire spillate».”

https://www.corriere.it/cronache/19_gennaio_26/gino-strada-gli-inizi-emergency-svolta-fu-costanzo-show-f16c63b6-21ad-11e9-b334-77e854371a4e.shtml
Sospesi tra le due solite, opposte idee: "non cambiare mai" e "prova a cambiare". Chissà dove oscilla il pendolo questa volta...

Money quote :"When we’re children, we have very little concept of time. It’s there — we measure it on our watches and calendars, and it’s apparently something we can run out of, if we’re not careful. This rudimentary back-of-the-envelope denoscriptor still holds some water.

But, as we get older, we begin to develop an understanding of what time means. It’s a linear equation with no reversal. It’s a one way street where you can never speed up or slow down, only change your perception of how fast you’re moving based upon how much attention you’ve been paying and how much you’re soaking up every radiant glow of the setting sun. Life’s a golden hour that lasts forever, and most of the pictures still don’t turn out quite right."

https://psiloveyou.xyz/we-used-to-dream-now-we-just-think-426fb56c7aad
Buone letture per la domenica: com’è, come non è che due uomini hanno creato e definito il rumore, il suono e il frastuono della musica praticamente da soli. Ovvero, come nacque la chitarra elettrica.

Money quote: “Leo Fender, born in 1909, was a low-key workshop sorcerer who ate a can of spaghetti for lunch every day and would scramble onstage with a screwdriver, while the musicians were playing, to fiddle with the gear he had built for them. Opposites in style and temperament, both men had the Promethean itch; both men sought, in the name of music, to master the strange and volatile element of loudness. And it led them both in the same direction—toward the creation of the solid-bodied electric guitar. More circuitry was always necessary.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/how-electric-guitar-was-born/580969/
Dopo gli scandali, i cali di vendite, gli allarmismi, un altro ragionamento. La domanda non è tanto quanto vendano gli iPhone, ma come. Cioè in quali proporzioni. Ecco, c'è chi ha fatto un grafico

Money quote: "The iPhone X may be the best-selling model on its own, but it’s being outperformed by the iPhone 8 family, which includes the 8 and 8 Plus."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-iphone-buying-patterns-have-changed-over-time-in-one-chart-2018-07-09