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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Dietro le quinte del business e della tecnologia ci sono dei tecnici di alto livello che pochi conoscono ma che in realtà sono fondamentali. Sono i generali degli eserciti che fanno vincere una ideologia rispetto all'altra, una posizione rispetto all'altra. Alla fine, sono le creature che possono fare la differenza, a prescindere che uno abbia "torto" o "ragione" (ammesso che tali concetti esistano nel mondo del business). Una di questi, forse la più brava, è una donna ch lavora per Goldman Sachs.

Money quote: "Nearly 20 years into her career at Goldman Sachs, Kiely, the global head of semiconductor and automotive banking, has helped buy and sell multibillion-dollar companies, watched deals crumble over international trade wars, and fought on behalf of semiconductor giants like Qualcomm, Micron, and Nvidia.

She's one of the most high-powered women in investment banking and the semiconductor industry, both known for having largely male C-suites and executive boards. And she happens to be well liked among the companies that hire her."

https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-banker-tammy-kiely-profile-1-19?IR=T
Logica inappuntabile: siamo finalmente arrivati alla fine del business dell'abbigliamento

Money quote: "Who needs fashion these days when you can express yourself through social media?"

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/the-death-of-clothing
Problemi di security: password e codici di sicurezza personali

Money quote: "“All credit card PIN numbers in the World leaked”

The body of the message simply said 0000 0001 0002 0003 0004 …"

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/
Se a qualcuno interessa, io preferirei proprio essere cremato. Il motivo è essenzialmente questo che segue. (E perdonate l’immodestia del paragone storico)

Money quote: “When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 B.C., his body didn’t begin to show signs of decomposition for a full six days, according to historical accounts”

https://www.history.com/news/alexander-the-great-death-cause-discovery
Questa intervista al New Yorker di Haruki Murakami sta diventando talmente importante che non voglio aspettare domenica per lasciarvela come lettura lunga del fine settimana. Casomai mettetela da parte
Voi, se non avete tempo. È importante però. Se non altro perché si scopre che l’uomo ha fatto il dj all radio e che scrive quando vuole lui cosa vuole lui quanto vuole lui. Altro che blocco dello scrittore.

Money quote: “A subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman, Murakami is a master of both suspense and sociology, his language a deceptively simple screen with a mystery hidden behind it. In his fiction, he has written about phantom sheep, about spirits meeting up in a netherworld, about little people who emerge from a painting, but, beneath the evocative, often dreamlike imagery, his work is most often a study of missed connections, of both the comedy and the tragedy triggered by our failures to understand one another.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-underground-worlds-of-haruki-murakami/
Sul perché dovremmo rileggere (o leggere per la prima volta) Leopardi. Oggi ancora più attuale di sempre.

Money quote: “Trained all his life to pursue knowledge, Leopardi’s simple intuition was that, once found, knowledge did not help you to live. On the contrary, it brought despair. And once learned, it could not be unlearned. His enormous contribution, in the 18 years that remained to him, would be to explore this modern, godless state of mind in all its ramifications and implications, to reflect on how it had come about, and to look for strategies on how to live with it. In an age when so many people, particularly young people, are at a loss to give life meaning and direction, Leopardi is essential reading. ‘No one,’ Schopenhauer would observe, had handled the theme of life as ‘tragic farce’ so ‘thoroughly and exhaustively’ as Leopardi. Yet he did so ‘in such a multiplicity of forms and applications, with such wealth of imagery, that he never wearies us, but, on the contrary, is throughout entertaining and exciting’.”

https://aeon.co/essays/why-read-the-nihilistic-work-of-giacomo-leopardi-today
Emergenza telefonate pubblicitarie negli Usa. Da noi segue da vicino.

Money quote: “Spam, robo, and spoof calls, especially those that masquerade as calls from your local area code, reached crisis proportions on landlines almost two years ago. Now, according to some estimates, the same is about to happen to our mobile phones. A 2018 study conducted by First Orion, a scam protection provider, predicts “44.6 percent of calls to mobile phones will be scam calls in 2019.””

https://medium.com/s/the-upgrade/our-robocall-nightmare-may-be-coming-to-an-end-b6d15a4486fa
I numeri in realtà sono ridicoli e c’è più gente che si fa il piercing al capezzolo che gente che si innesti il chip sotto pelle. Però ovviamente fa impressione. La scontata considerazione è che gli svedesi sono gente strana.

Money quote: “Around the size of a grain of rice, the chips typically are inserted into the skin just above each user's thumb, using a syringe similar to that used for giving vaccinations. The procedure costs about $180.

So many Swedes are lining up to get the microchips that the country's main chipping company says it can't keep up with the number of requests.

More than 4,000 Swedes have adopted the technology, with one company, Biohax International, dominating the market. The chipping firm was started five years ago by Jowan Osterlund, a former professional body piercer.“

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=658808705
C’è gente che sta male. A mio modesto avviso, qui a stare male non è tanto Melania quando l’arrogante analista delle foto altrui.

Perché? Beh, non c’è intuizione ma solo dimostrazione di una tesi prefabbricata. L’analisi qualitativa non si fa così.

Money quote: “What is that reality? She is Rapunzel with no prince and no hair, locked in a tower of her own volition, and delighted with the predictability and repetition of her own captivity.
Why not move to the White House? Let’s see.”

https://medium.com/@kate8/fairytale-prisoner-by-choice-the-photographic-eye-of-melania-trump-f1f7b97fff29
Alcune figure carismatiche ci mancano: hanno segnato il nostro tempo mentale, altre epoche molto differenti da questa in cui apparentemente viviamo (ma sospettiamo di essere ancora là, lontani, nel profondo della nostra vita passata).

Money quote: “El martes me reencontré con el cincuenta por ciento de mi biblioteca, que había quedado en casa de mi suegro. (Otro veinticinco sigue en la casa que fue de mis padres, oficiando de rehén. Y un cero coma algo que está en manos de mis hijas, adeptas al tráfico hormiga. Algún día la reuniré toda, aunque temo que esa reconstitución produzca un efecto inesperado en el continuum espacio-tiempo.)”

https://www.elcohetealaluna.com/las-puertas-del-cielo/