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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
Costruiamo l'assemblato del futuro. Eh, diciamo del passato, va'! (cosa non si farebbe per qualche click. Però questo è divertente)

Money quote: "If you can remember building your own spec’d-out computer in order to play games like Half-Life or Rogue Squadron, you’ll enjoy this nostalgic trip down memory lane that includes antique technologies like the Pentium III processor, floppy disks, and CD-ROM drives. From opening the first box, to installing the last driver update, it takes hours to get this gaming rig ready—and unfortunately unable to load a single modern game. But Doom still plays great!"

https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-guy-build-a-brand-new-completely-obsolete-gami-1827623488
Non funziona in Europa, ma è forte in Nordamerica, Australia, Africa. La vera mappa dei territori basati sulle popolazioni autoctone, poi scacciate dalla colonizzazione europea.

Money quote: "Visitors to the site can enter a street address or ZIP code into the map’s search bar to discover whose traditional territory their home was built on. White House officials will discover that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is found on the overlapping traditional territories of the Pamunkey and Piscataway tribes. Tourists will learn that the Statue of Liberty was erected on Lenape land, and aspiring lawyers that Harvard was erected in a place first inhabited by the Wamponoag and Massachusett peoples.

The map, which is also a mobile app for Apple and Android, was created by a Canadian programmer named Victor Temprano, who started educating himself about Indigenous land rights and ownership when he got involved in anti-pipeline activism in British Columbia three years ago."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/native-land-map-of-indigenous-territories
Bisognerebbe ricordarci più spesso di Dennis Ritchie. O almeno ogni tanto. È stato colui che ha reso possibile Steve Jobs, Bill Gates e Linus Torvalds.

Money quote: "The World Is Written in C"

https://medium.com/@caspervonb/in-memory-of-dennis-ritchie-b3304f1b86ff
Alla faccia della retorica pro-giovani: le migliori startup sono quelle fondate da persone di 45 anni. Lo dice una ricerca pubblicata dalla Harvard Business Review.

Money quote: "But what about the most successful startups? Is it possible that companies started by younger entrepreneurs are particularly successful? Among the top 0.1% of startups based on growth in their first five years, we find that the founders started their companies, on average, when they were 45 years old."

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-successful-startup-founder-is-45
Il futuro visto con gli occhi di ieri: c'era già tutto, ma non incastrato nel modo giusto
Saggezze.

Money quote: "One common thing I learned at three in the morning: everyone lied to survive. Truth is a luxury we day-people take for granted."

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-to-writing-your-first-book-4dbae9b28ace
A ben guardare, l'articolo che segue ha ragione da vendere. Vorrei riuscire a metterle insieme e scriverle, e un giorno non è detto che non lo faccia. Intanto, la parte di ragionamento che qui faceva brandur è molto molto corretta: abbiamo interfacce sempre più lente e farraginose, che dobbiamo aspettare mentre producono effetti inutili e poggiano su fondamenta fragili (Electron, sto guardando te). Invece, un mondo di programmi che girano nel Terminale, nel mondo della riga di comando, potrebbero insegnarci molte cose.

Money quote: "We need a reboot. We need toolkits that produce interfaces that are fast, consistent, bug free, and composable by default so that good interfaces aren’t just something produced by the best developer/designers in the world, but could be reasonably expected from even junior people in the industry.

We should be honest with ourselves and call out design anti-patterns that promote flashiness at the expense of efficiency."

https://brandur.org/interfaces