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
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
Corriere della Sera
Gino Strada: «Gli inizi di Emergency? La svolta fu il Costanzo Show»
Il chirurgo e fondatore dell’Ong nata 25 anni fa che ha costruito ospedali e posti di primo soccorso in 18 Paesi: non chiamatemi pacifista, nel mondo umanitario c’è molto dilettantismo. «In Libia abbiamo chiuso perché arrivavano solo delinquenti»
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
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
Medium
We Used To Dream, Now We Just Think
Objects in rear are now farther than they appear.
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/
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/
The Atlantic
The Feud That Birthed the Electric Guitar
Les Paul and Leo Fender were fierce competitors. Their rivalry led them both in the same direction—toward the creation of the solid-bodied instrument that changed the course of rock music.
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
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
MarketWatch
How iPhone buying patterns have changed over time, in one chart
Apple Inc.’s most recent iPhone lineup may not have launched with the momentum that investors initially hoped for, but analysts say it has had staying power.
Morgan Stanley: "Comprate azioni Apple" - Il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/morgan-stanley-comprate-azioni-apple/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/morgan-stanley-comprate-azioni-apple/
CorCom
Morgan Stanley: "Comprate azioni Apple" - CorCom
Alla vigilia dei risultati della trimestrale gli analisti sostengono che il peggio è alle spalle, nonostante gli allarmismi in merito al calo delle vendite degli iPhone, e che il titolo sia stato eccessivamente deprezzato. "L'azienda riprenderà presto la…
Il grande nemico dell'Occidente è davvero Huawei? - Il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/il-grande-nemico-delloccidente-e-davvero-huawei/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/il-grande-nemico-delloccidente-e-davvero-huawei/
CorCom
Il grande nemico dell'Occidente è davvero Huawei? - CorCom
Un editoriale della Bbc riapre le polemiche sulla guerra commerciale tra Stati Uniti e aziende cinesi, e si chiede quali siano le prove reali di un rischio di spionaggio politico o industriale orchestrato da Pechino. L'ambasciatore cinese alle Ue: "Discriminazione…
Fintech, Stripe investe in Italia e punta sui pagamenti digitali delle pmi - Il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/economia/finanza/2019/01/29/stripe-italia-pmi/
https://www.wired.it/economia/finanza/2019/01/29/stripe-italia-pmi/
WIRED.IT
Fintech, Stripe investe in Italia e punta sui pagamenti digitali delle pmi
Stripe apre un suo ufficio nel Belpaese per cavalcare l'onda della digitalizzazione delle attività finanziarie e di pagamento da parte delle pmi
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
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
Gizmodo
Watch a Guy Build a Brand New, Completely Obsolete Gaming PC With 20-Year-Old Parts
On June 25, 1998, Microsoft released Windows 98. It didn’t come out with quite as much fanfare as Windows 95 did, so to commemorate the OS’ 20th anniversary, YouTuber Shelby Jueden built a gaming PC using brand new, in the box, 20-year old components, as…
“Fusione” delle chat, faro della Privacy irlandese su Facebook - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/privacy/fusione-delle-chat-faro-della-privacy-irlandese-su-facebook/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/privacy/fusione-delle-chat-faro-della-privacy-irlandese-su-facebook/
CorCom
"Fusione" delle chat, faro della Privacy irlandese su Facebook - CorCom
L'autorità ha richiesto al social "un aggiornamento urgente" sulla proposta di unire Messenger, Instagram e Whatsapp. Si punta a valutare l'eventuale compliance al Gdpr
Goldman Sachs, allarme sulle tech company Usa: “Occhio alla crisi cinese” - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/goldman-sachs-allarme-su-tech-company-usa-occhio-alla-crisi-cinese/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/goldman-sachs-allarme-su-tech-company-usa-occhio-alla-crisi-cinese/
CorCom
Goldman Sachs, allarme su tech company Usa: "Occhio alla crisi cinese" - CorCom
Non solo la casa di Cupertino, Nvidia e Caterpillar: secondo gli analisti della banca d'affari c'è rischio contagio per le società che sono particolarmente esposte con Pechino, la cui economia rallenta per la prima volta da 28 anni a questa parte
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
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
Atlas Obscura
Indigenous Geographies Overlap in This Colorful Online Map
Native Land highlights territories, treaties, and languages across the U.S., Canada, and beyond.
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
Money quote: "The World Is Written in C"
https://medium.com/@caspervonb/in-memory-of-dennis-ritchie-b3304f1b86ff
Medium
In Memory of Dennis Ritchie
Remembering The Creator of Steve Jobs, Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates
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
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
Harvard Business Review
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
It’s widely believed that the most successful entrepreneurs are young. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg were in their early twenties when they launched what would become world-changing companies. Do these famous cases reflect a generalizable pattern?…
Fuga di dati in Yahoo, in tribunale non si trova la quadra - Il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/fuga-di-dati-in-yahoo-in-tribunale-non-si-trova-la-quadra/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/fuga-di-dati-in-yahoo-in-tribunale-non-si-trova-la-quadra/
CorCom
Fuga di dati in Yahoo, in tribunale non si trova la quadra - CorCom
Il giudice distrettuale di San Jose ha giudicato inaccettabile e inadeguata la proposta della società per riparare ai danni provocati dalla maxi violazione di dati che ha coinvolto 3 miliardi di account fra il 2013 e il 2016. La casa madre Verizon: "Troveremo…
Automazione e reskill: la "doppia" leva di Accenture per le nuove sfide 4.0 - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/automazione-e-reskill-la-doppia-leva-di-accenture-per-le-nuove-sfide-4-0/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/automazione-e-reskill-la-doppia-leva-di-accenture-per-le-nuove-sfide-4-0/
CorCom
Automazione e reskill: la "doppia" leva di Accenture per le nuove sfide 4.0 - CorCom
La piattaforma SynOps ha consentito di snellire le aree contabilità e finanze, gestione delle risorse, marketing e acquisti. I lavoratori "tagliati" dal software sono stati poi inseriti in un circuito di formazione interna e preparati per nuove posizioni.…
Dal monopattino elettrico alla “app generation”: è la micro-mobilità cittadina - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/lifestyle/mobilita/2019/01/30/micro-mobilita-cittadina/
https://www.wired.it/lifestyle/mobilita/2019/01/30/micro-mobilita-cittadina/
Wired
Dal monopattino elettrico alla “app generation”: è la micro-mobilità cittadina
Qual è il modello di business e quali sono le prospettive delle startup che lanciano mezzi alternativi per gli spostamenti cittadini come il monopattino
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
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
Medium
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet To Writing Your First Book
My first four books were so bad, so arrogant, PUKE!
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
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
brandur.org
Learning From Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
How we overvalue the wrong technology and novel aspects of interface design at the expense of substantial gains to our productivity.
Il cloud fa volare i conti di Microsoft, utili sopra le attese - Il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/il-cloud-fa-volare-i-conti-di-microsoft-utili-sopra-le-attese/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/il-cloud-fa-volare-i-conti-di-microsoft-utili-sopra-le-attese/
CorCom
Il cloud fa volare i conti di Microsoft, utili sopra le attese - CorCom
Azure spinge i risultati: la divisione è cresciuta del 76%. Fatturato totale a quota 32,47 miliardi di dollari (+12%). Profitti a 1,10 dollari leggermente superiore alle stime del mercato (1,09 dollari)
5G, l'Europa pronta a bannare le aziende cinesi - Il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/5g-leuropa-pronta-a-bannare-le-aziende-cinesi/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/5g-leuropa-pronta-a-bannare-le-aziende-cinesi/
CorCom
5G, l'Europa pronta a bannare le aziende cinesi - CorCom
Bruxelles starebbe valutando una serie di proposte per mettere fuori gioco Huawei & co dai bandi per l'acquisto delle apparecchiature di rete per la costruzione dell'infrastruttura mobile. Sul tavolo la possibilità di modificare la legge sulla sicurezza informatica…