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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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È in giorni come questo che pian piano costruisco la newsletter perlopiù settimanale di questo canale. Mostly Weekly esce più o meno nel fine settimana. Se volete essere sicuri che vi arrivi, dovete abbonarvi prima però:

https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite

Per farsi un'idea, qui c'è l'archivio dei numeri precedenti:

http://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite/archive
Conosco abbastanza Stripe per averne scritto dopo averla visitata e aver parlato con i suoi fondatori e un po' di gente. Questa sorta di auto-dichiarazione, fatta da uno dei loro dipendenti, è molto interessante. E particolare. E anche un po' matta: alcune di queste cose sono sempre esistite anche nel paleo-mondo aziendale prima dell'hi-tech, e si davano per implicite.

Money quote: "I ran my own businesses for a number of years, including a startup with co-founders, and greatly enjoyed the experience, but I felt like I was maxing out on the challenges available in running small software companies.

It also felt like it was constraining the absolute amount of impact I had for the world. The parts of the job which I enjoyed the most were not my actual job (writing and selling software, filing taxes in a timely fashion, etc) but helping other software entrepreneurs optimize their businesses or engineers navigate career challenges."

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/3/18/two-years-at-stripe/
Dalla scarsità all'abbondanza senza limiti di informazione: sta cambiando il mondo. Un saggio ambizioso e non troppo lungo cerca di spiegare il tutto

Money quote: "I’ll show how the shift from information scarcity to information abundance is transforming commerce, education, and politics. The structure of each industry was shaped by the information-scarce, Mass Media environment. First, we’ll focus on commerce. Education will be second. Then, we’ll zoom out for a short history of America since World War II. We’ll see how information scarcity creates authority and observe the effects of the internet on knowledge. Finally, we’ll return to politics and tie these threads together."

https://www.perell.com/blog/what-the-hell-is-going-on
Un nuovo numero di Mostly, Weekly, la newsletter di questo canale, è appena partito. Ma siete in tempo per agganciarvi; ci si iscrive qui: https://tinyletter.com/MostlyIWrite
In questo numero:
- Made in Italy
- L'ECG al polso
- AirPods 2
- Hey, oggi è il backup day
- Tsundoku
La cosa bella di questi articoli di americani che smettono con la caffeina, è che praticamente non hanno mai preso un caffè degno di questo nome. Alle volte non hanno proprio preso un caffè.

Money quote: “More recently, though, I’ve been able to quit caffeine for weeks at a time, whenever I want to, without experiencing much in the way of withdrawal. Now I don’t have caffeine every day, and on the days I do have some, I usually limit myself to one or two Diet Cokes or cups of tea.
What changed? I learned how caffeine works and discovered a reliable method for quitting it without feeling like crap.”

https://betterhumans.coach.me/how-to-quit-caffeine-in-one-week-e041892698ec
La festa di compleanno per i centi anni di Lawrence Ferlinghetti: se eravate curiosi, ecco come è andata.

Money quote: “I hear the party at City Lights Books before I see it. The Beats, and their twenty-first-century torchbearers, are neither quiet nor sober. The bookstore is celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s hundredth birthday in an event open to all of San Francisco. A man with shoulder-length gray hair sits cross-legged on Columbus Avenue drinking Squirt and reading Mark Twain to himself. People step around him. Men with glasses sport boots that will never be polished. The air is thick with a blend of smoke from cigarettes and joints—there are no e-cigarettes, no vape pens in sight”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/26/at-lawrence-ferlinghettis-hundredth-birthday-party/
Lavorare bene, anzi lavorare meglio: con la scrivania sgombra si può. Una volta si diceva che la scrivania fosse vuota come la testa del suo proprietario. Oggi forse bisogna pensare solo alla memoria del computer...

Money quote: “Having a clear space helps you avoid decision fatigue. If you have a lot of clutter on your desk, it creates a lot of stimuli for your brain to constantly react and respond to. Likewise, if you have a lot of stuff in your space that you have to move and shift around, you’ll likely feel flustered and spend more time finding the things you need. Be intentional and selective about what goes where. If you have a lot of decor you love, consider switching it out weekly instead of trying to fit it all on your desk at once.”

https://medium.com/s/story/your-productivity-hinges-on-how-you-arrange-your-desk-6b278f018daf
Prima che finisca il primo d'aprile, la madre di tutti i pesci d'aprile. Su Sport Illustrated, la storia di un lanciatore mistico talmente una supercazzola prematurata che avrebbero dovuto mandare tutti a casa e abolire i pesci d'aprile per sempre.

Money quote: ""I never dreamed a baseball could be thrown that fast. The wrist must have a lot to do with it, and all that leverage. You can hardly see the blur of it as it goes by. As for hitting the thing, frankly, I just don't think it's humanly possible. You could send a blind man up there, and maybe he'd do better hitting at the sound of the thing.""

https://www.si.com/mlb/2014/10/15/curious-case-sidd-finch