William Blake da noi è sostanzialmente uno sconosciuto, poco più di una nota a pie' di pagina. Ma la nota di un pazzo visionario.

Money quote: "Blake’s offbeat character – from his naturism and convoluted, self-invented cosmology to his visions of angels sitting in trees and his political and religious nonconformism – forms a carapace so tough as to be nigh-on impenetrable. The fact that his quirks were not so much elements of the man but the man himself means that he can be too daunting to comprehend properly. He once said of his illustrated poems that “My style of designing is a species by itself” and Blake too can perhaps be best characterised as a species in himself."

https://www.newstatesman.com/william-blake-rebel-radical-revolutionary-tate-britain-exhibition-london-review

Apple elimina dallo store l’app utilizzata dai manifestanti di Hong Kong - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/apple-elimina-dallo-store-lapp-utilizzata-dai-manifestanti-di-hong-kong/

Streaming, Goldman Sachs: “Netflix ce la può fare” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/streaming-goldman-sachs-netflix-puo-vincere-la-battaglia/

Tim Cook ha aperto un business laterale? Ancora no, però...

Money quote: “On peut diversement apprécier le travail de Tim Cook à la tête d'Apple. Mais comment se débrouille le patron de la Pomme en cuisine ? Vous le saurez bien rapidement en achetant la collection d'ustensiles de cuisine Tim Cookware ! Spatule, cuillère, rouleau à pâtisserie, planche à découper, livre de recettes personnelles, et même une toque de chef et une râpe à fromage… Sur tous ces objets indispensables (sauf la râpe hélas) est gravé le portrait ravi de Tim Cook. Bien sûr, ils sont tous vendus à un prix indécent.”

https://www.macg.co/galerie/2019/10/cuisinez-comme-un-chef-avec-les-ustensiles-tim-cook-108941

Un epico articolo sui vaccini del New Yorker, che dice anche molto, molto di più. Impersdibile.

Money quote: “When I first met Zucker, he began to talk about all the things that a health commissioner does. In his speed-mumble, he ticked off threats that his department had faced: Ebola, Legionnaires’, Zika, Lyme, flu, Candida auris. Opioids. Water safety. He has a particular preoccupation with geriatrics and the aging-population problem. There are random responsibilities: last summer, Zucker had to cancel a rock concert in Watkins Glen, because of the threat of storms. “Someone came to me and said, ‘I think we need to cancel fish.’ ‘Why is that my problem?’ I said. ‘Why do I have to worry about fish? Shouldn’t that be the D.E.C.?’ ‘Not fish. P-H-I-S-H.’ I hadn’t heard of this Phish.” He has never tasted coffee, tobacco, or pot, although he oversees the state’s new medical-marijuana program, and his department, in conjunction with others, has issued a report in favor of the legalization of recreational marijuana. (When Zucker announced this, during New York’s gubernatorial campaign last year, a spokeswoman for Marc Molinaro, Andrew Cuomo’s Republican opponent, accused the Governor of having “his hand-picked ‘Doogie Howser’ rubber stamp another decision that has less to do with science and everything to do with politics.”) Zucker got similar flak when he concluded, five years ago, that fracking was a public-health threat, a finding that led Cuomo to ban it.”


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/the-message-of-measles

Una vita e mezzo fa intervistavo un ex imprenditore trasformato in uomo da meditazione che mi spiegava l'importanza di trovare e definire bene i propri valori, sia come individui che come aziende. È il filo di questo ragionamento (per gli individui, non per le aziende).

Money quote: "Values are our fundamental beliefs, informing our thoughts, words, and actions. If we don’t set our own core values, we end up losing ourselves in other people’s values. That’s how we become dependent on our friends, family members, or partners to define us. Our identities are no longer our own."

https://forge.medium.com/write-a-list-of-your-values-and-everything-else-will-follow-517d2f17964e

Non solo Uber, anche Lyft fa causa alla città di New York - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/non-solo-uber-anche-lyft-fa-causa-alla-citta-di-new-york/

La Sec blocca la criptovaluta di Telegram: in fumo 1,7 miliardi di dollari - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/la-sec-blocca-il-lancio-della-criptovaluta-di-telegram-in-fumo-17-miliardi-di-dollari/

Ci sono problemi in casa Apple? La lista delle lamentazioni sulla decrescente qualità dei prodotti e della strategia è piuttosto lunga. Un articolo di un po' di tempo fa, prima di eventuali polemiche a ridosso del lancio dei telefoni, fa il punto.

Money quote: "Since taking over as CEO in 2011, Tim Cook has only introduced two new product lines—the Apple Watch and HomePod (well, three if you count AirPods). Instead, he mainly chose to expand the variations on existing products, pumping out new sizes, features, and colors each year. This approach has obviously helped make Apple so rich, but it’s difficult to see that this expansion of products has done anything other than make it difficult for Apple’s manufacturers and support staff to retain their focus.

Perhaps this is just an awkward blip in Apple’s long history—but it’s possible that it signals that something deeper may be wrong at the world’s largest company. All may seem well from the outside now, but how long can the company keep expanding from its core—especially with the moves into health care and autonomous cars on the horizon—before more serious flaws emerge?"

https://qz.com/1366350/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-apple/

Mnuchin: “Fuga da Libra? Colpa dell’immaturità del progetto” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/mnuchin-fuga-da-libra-colpa-dellimmaturita-del-progetto/

I robot del futuro saranno “insecure by design”? - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/i-robot-del-futuro-saranno-insecure-by-design/

Scusate ma questa l'ho vista due giorni fa e non riesco a togliermela dalla retina...

“Il capitalismo è morto”, la provocazione del fondatore di Salesforce - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/il-capitalismo-e-morto-la-provocazione-del-fondatore-di-salesforce/

Fotocamere al raddoppio, ecco il nuovo Pixel 4 di Google - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/fotocamere-al-raddoppio-ecco-il-nuovo-pixel-4-di-google/

Potremmo fare a meno di Internet? No. Però ci sono dei modi. Anche perché ci sono molti problemi, a partire dalla violenza e dal bullismo. (problema molto statunitense, molto mediatico, in parte crescente anche italiano)

Money quote: "Signs point to us just having to learn to live with this thing. “There are people who minimally engage with the internet, and they’re quite content with their lives and function well on a daily basis; however, the likelihood of that continuing is slim given how much technology is increasingly expanding into every aspect of our life,” Noulas says. “Rather than escaping altogether, I would focus more on taking breaks from the internet/television/video games in a consistent manner.”

https://medium.com/s/greatescape/can-you-escape-the-internet-331638ac78a2

Rat-Man, i 30 anni di un eroe generazionale - il mio articolo per Fumettologica

https://www.fumettologica.it/2019/10/rat-man-fumetto-ortolani/

Doppio Nobel e poi doppio Booker Prize “di consolazione”? - il mio articolo per Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2019/10/16/doppio-nobel-e-poi-doppio-booker-prize-di-consolazione/

Kaspersky: attenzione, le nostre case smart e le nostre imprese digitalizzate sono ancora insicure - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2019/10/17/news/kaspersky-attenzione-le-nostre-case-smart-e-le-nostre-imprese-digitalizzate-sono-ancora-insicure-1.37753157

Intel “vira” sul 5G con un’acquisizione mirata all’edge computing - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/5g/intel-vira-sul-5g-con-unacquisizione-mirata-alledge-computing/

Amazon-Deliveroo, l’Antitrust Uk apre indagine formale - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ecommerce/amazon-deliveroo-lantitrust-uk-apre-indagine-formale/

Memorialisti che parlano di cose vere e non vere. Cosa c'è di profondamente realistico e cosa c'è di fantastico nel racconto di quel che ricordiamo?

Money quote: "Most of my work, fictional or not, doesn’t involve criticizing other humans. I tend to like people, except when I don’t, but the minutiae of my annoyance with a particular individual is rarely interesting enough to merit inclusion in a book or essay. The exception, of course, is when a public figure — like, for example, a terribly corrupt president — does something absolutely execrable, at which point I may write about it and use the name freely. Though it may already be obvious, let me say here that my thoughts in this essay do not concern journalism or political opinion about public figures. This is all about memoir."

https://medium.com/s/story/its-not-about-you-except-when-it-is-e5d3938cd224