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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Forse alcune persone con una intelligenza superiore, o una memoria superiore, hanno semplicemente una frequenza di campionamento più alta. Perché a quanto pare noi percepiamo la realtà come continua, ma in realtà la assorbiamo a frammenti, alternandola a rapidissimi momenti di coma celebrale. (Questo spiegherebbe cosa vuol dire essere nella zona o meditare: entrare e uscire da uno stato di flusso continuo e non frammentato della coscienza). Inquietante.

Money quote: "To understand these “rhythms of attention,” Fiebelkorn suggests imagining standing in Times Square on New Years’ Eve, surrounded by people, cars, and music. The scene presents far more sensory information than one human brain is capable of sorting through, and so, the brain deals with all of the information in two ways. First, it focuses on a single point of interest: the street corner where you might meet a friend, or Ryan Seacrest combing the crowd for interviews. Like a filmstrip, the brain takes snapshots of these moments and pieces them together into a cohesive narrative, or “perceptual cycle.”

We experience that moment as continuous, but in reality, we’ve only sampled certain elements of the environment around us. It feels continuous because our brains have filled in the gaps for us, explains Berkeley’s Knight Lab researcher and first author Randolph Helfrich, Ph.D. to Inverse.

“I think it’s more a philosophical problem that it is a scientific problem,” he says. “Because when we look at brain data we see a pattern that waxes and wanes, they’re never constant and stable. Everyone perceives the world as continuous and coherent, but the real tricky part is, how does the brain do that?”"

https://www.inverse.com/article/48300-why-is-it-hard-to-focus-research-humans
Un comodo tool online per rimuovere lo sfondo delle foto. In realtà avviene tutto in locale nel browser, quindi non c’è un eccessivo rischio di avere le immagini “rubate” da qualche oscura intelligenza artificiale.

https://www.remove.bg/
Cosa sappiamo del volo MH370 della Malaysia Airlines: spettacolare articolo investigativo di uno dei migliori giornalisti della nostra epoca

Money quote: “Gibson left the commemoration determined to help by addressing a gap he had perceived—the lack of coastal searches for floating debris. This would be his niche. He would become MH370’s private beachcomber. The official investigators, primarily Australian and Malaysian, were heavily invested in their underwater search. They would have scoffed at Gibson’s ambition, just as they would have scoffed at the prospect that on beaches hundreds of miles apart, Gibson would find pieces of the airplane”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/
Cosa ci fanno i social network lo sappiamo benissimo (o almeno, alcuni di no). Ma allora perché non riusciamo a staccarcene?

Money quote: "What is the incentive to engage in writing like this for hours each day? In a form of mass casualisation, writers no longer expect to be paid or given employment contracts. What do the platforms offer us, in lieu of a wage? What gets us hooked? Approval, attention, retweets, shares and likes."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/social-media-addiction-gambling
Signore e signori, ecco a voi Inkdrop, l'ennesima app per il markdown. Ma questa è diversa, eh? Non mi credete? Ecco, beh, in effetti non fate male.

Money quote: "Built for developers like you"

https://inkdrop.app

https://blog.inkdrop.info/introducing-inkdrop-4-9d0c63de16d2
[IL METODO]
Avrai sicuramente sentito parlare del metodo GETTING THINGS DONE di David Allen (GTD o con la traduzione italiana Detto, fatto!) per fare più cose in meno tempo.
Se vuoi saperne di più, il super Andrea Ciraolo ha intervistato Jacopo Pellarin, psicologo del lavoro. Insieme hanno approfondito l'applicazione di questo metodo, dalla necessità di liberare la mente all'analisi di tutto quello che abbiamo in sospeso.
"La chiave per gestire le cose è gestire le proprie azioni."
Ecco il video da non perdere: https://youtu.be/-KutIsiyuNs

[E LA RIFLESSIONE]
Dal metodo passiamo alla pigrizia che a volte ci frena dal mettere in pratica nuove soluzioni. Ma è davvero così? La pigrizia esiste o è una scusa? Ha affrontato questo tema la giornalista Barbara Reverberi nel suo canale Telegram.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/barbarareverberi/127

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Tango down, tango down. Tempo di rimettere mano all'alfabeto Nato. È un problema di multiculturalità, alla fine.

Money quote: "Just as the names of letters are in groups, spelling alphabets also might have some sense of thematic organization. “We remember better things which are linked in terms of their meaning,” says Valerie Hazan, a professor of speech sciences at University College London. (We’ll be hearing a lot more from her.) Geographic place names are one group. From the 1912 Western Union Spelling Alphabet, just for example, we have “B as in Boston,” “N as in Newark,” and “T as in Texas.”"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-spelling-alphabet
Stiamo rendendo parte della nostra vita di consumatori un servizio in abbonamento che ci arriva con scadenze regolari in comode scatole. Un business da 2,6 miliardi di dollari negli Usa. (Scommettete che poi seguiremo anche noi?)

Money quote: "According to an in-depth McKinsey report published earlier this year, consumers are now fully on board with receiving products and services on a regular schedule, without having to place new orders. In 2011, the subnoscription e-commerce market was $57 million, and by 2016 it had ballooned to $2.6 billion. This also includes media subnoscriptions like Netflix, meal kits, and product replenishment programs like Amazon’s Subscribe and Save. But curation services–like monthly boxes of clothes, makeup, or other products–are the most popular kind of subnoscription, according to McKinsey’s study, making up 55% of all subnoscriptions.

New subnoscription boxes are popping up every day. There are now 3,500, an increase of 40% from a year before. And a full 47% of subnoscription boxes launched in the past 12 months, according to the warehouse management company Snapfulfil."

https://www.fastcompany.com/90248232/inside-the-2-6-billion-subnoscription-box-wars