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Debutta oggi “And So What?”, una nuova rubrica di Fumettologica a cura di Antonio Dini (che trovate anche su Telegram, qui: @mostlyiwrite).
Ogni 15 giorni su “And So What?” troverete analisi critiche e laterali attorno a quell'incrocio molto trafficato fra cultura, tecnologia e mercato.
La rubrica si affiancherà a quelle già in corso da circa un anno, “Sofisticazioni popolari” di Marco Andreoletti (https://bit.ly/3XXXJY1) e “Margini” (https://bit.ly/3Y1FSPS) di Tonio Troiani.
Per noi si tratta della prima novità che vi offriremo nel 2023. Qui a Fumettologica abbiamo in serbo grosse soprese. Stay tuned…
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Ogni 15 giorni su “And So What?” troverete analisi critiche e laterali attorno a quell'incrocio molto trafficato fra cultura, tecnologia e mercato.
La rubrica si affiancherà a quelle già in corso da circa un anno, “Sofisticazioni popolari” di Marco Andreoletti (https://bit.ly/3XXXJY1) e “Margini” (https://bit.ly/3Y1FSPS) di Tonio Troiani.
Per noi si tratta della prima novità che vi offriremo nel 2023. Qui a Fumettologica abbiamo in serbo grosse soprese. Stay tuned…
Leggi la prima puntata di “And So What?”
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Se n'è andato un altro pezzetto di "storia artificiale", quella creata dal cinema ma poi diventata più vera del vero: il bar di Amici Miei. Da notare che la serie di tre film a Firenze, dove sono nato e cresciuto, non era un complementare. Dopo i viola era materia obbligatoria: a non esser ferrati sulle battete e citazioni della trilogia si rischiava l'ammonizione o addirittura l'espulsione dalla compagnia. E oggi tutto questo non c'è più. Ma l'ottimo Giovanni Bogani ne tratteggia un profilo identitario di buon livello (esame passato a pieni voti).
Money quote: "Ma soprattutto, è scomparso quel mondo. "Amici miei" si ispira in gran parte a personaggi realmente esistiti: come Silvano Nelli, l’autore radiofonico della trasmissione "Il Grillo canterino", che dà spunto al personaggio del Perozzi; o il conte Giorgio Menicanti, che ispira il personaggio del Mascetti. Come gli umoristi Giulio Scarnicci e Renato Tarabusi, autori televisivi degli anni ’50 e ’60; come Ernesto Nelli, architetto che nel 1957 contribuì a progettare il ponte Vespucci. O Mazzingo Donati, immunologo di fama, che ha ispirato la figura del chirurgo Sassaroli. O Cesarino Ricci, autore di operette goliardiche rappresentate anche al teatro Verdi. Viene dalla goliardia fiorentina il cuore antico del film, il suo gusto per la dissacrazione. E quella goliardia non c’è più."
https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/bar-necchi-all-asta-1.8496532
Money quote: "Ma soprattutto, è scomparso quel mondo. "Amici miei" si ispira in gran parte a personaggi realmente esistiti: come Silvano Nelli, l’autore radiofonico della trasmissione "Il Grillo canterino", che dà spunto al personaggio del Perozzi; o il conte Giorgio Menicanti, che ispira il personaggio del Mascetti. Come gli umoristi Giulio Scarnicci e Renato Tarabusi, autori televisivi degli anni ’50 e ’60; come Ernesto Nelli, architetto che nel 1957 contribuì a progettare il ponte Vespucci. O Mazzingo Donati, immunologo di fama, che ha ispirato la figura del chirurgo Sassaroli. O Cesarino Ricci, autore di operette goliardiche rappresentate anche al teatro Verdi. Viene dalla goliardia fiorentina il cuore antico del film, il suo gusto per la dissacrazione. E quella goliardia non c’è più."
https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/bar-necchi-all-asta-1.8496532
La Nazione
Amici miei, atto finale. Va all'asta il bar Necchi - Cronaca - lanazione.it
Scomparsi registi e attori della leggendaria trilogia. Le location dei film o non ci sono più o sono diventate altro. E la scena degli schiaffi alla stazione oggi sarebbe impossibile
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Le sfide dell'integrazione dall'altra parte del pianeta: mentre la popolazione invecchia il Giappone sta rivedendo le sue politiche sull'immigrazione aprendo sempre più le frontiere. Il risultato è che ci saranno forti tensioni perché il Giappone, come l'Italia, è un paese di emigrazione e non di immigrazione (inclusa tutta la storia dello ius solis e dello ius sanguinis, ricodate?). Un approfondimento pre-pandemico.
Money quote: "While this new immigration will help keep Japan’s economy and pension system afloat, it will inevitably introduce social strains. Unlike the U.S., Canada and other nations whose populations are mainly a hodgepodge of the descendants of recent immigrants, Japan has little history of mass immigration. The one major recent episode of immigration was the movement of Koreans to Japan during the Japanese colonization of Korea and later during the Korean War. Due to Japan’s lack of birthright citizenship, the descendants of those immigrants have become a racialized minority, speaking no Korean but bearing Korean passports. Discrimination against these people, sometimes called Zainichi Koreans, was severe for decades, and though it has decreased substantially in recent years, a far-right fringe has emerged to persecute and slander the Zainichi."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-22/japan-begins-experiment-of-opening-to-immigration
Money quote: "While this new immigration will help keep Japan’s economy and pension system afloat, it will inevitably introduce social strains. Unlike the U.S., Canada and other nations whose populations are mainly a hodgepodge of the descendants of recent immigrants, Japan has little history of mass immigration. The one major recent episode of immigration was the movement of Koreans to Japan during the Japanese colonization of Korea and later during the Korean War. Due to Japan’s lack of birthright citizenship, the descendants of those immigrants have become a racialized minority, speaking no Korean but bearing Korean passports. Discrimination against these people, sometimes called Zainichi Koreans, was severe for decades, and though it has decreased substantially in recent years, a far-right fringe has emerged to persecute and slander the Zainichi."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-22/japan-begins-experiment-of-opening-to-immigration
Bloomberg.com
Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration
As the population ages and shrinks, the country is making it easier for foreigners to work and become citizens.
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Crociera lesbica. Un esempio di giornalismo long form con metodologia post femminista a momenti fin troppo travolgente. Una giornalista che sta esplorando la sua relazione, una compagnia di navigazione che organizza crociere per donne lesbiche, duemila passeggeri e un lungo, lento giro nei Caraibi. Cosa può andare storto?
Money quote: "I had only a vague idea of what to expect when I boarded the Celebrity Summit in April for a weeklong excursion to the Caribbean. Olivia, a groundbreaking women’s record label turned lesbian travel company, named for the hero of a Dorothy Bussy novel, has catered specifically to lesbian vacationers since its maiden voyage in 1990. When I reached out to Olivia, the company offered me a press ticket for one of its Celebrity-partnered cruises so that I could get a sense of how it's become one of the most successful lesbian companies of all time. I generally expected to meet some nice older ladies with interesting life stories, to explore the tensions of intergenerational lesbian culture and the fraught future of lesbian spaces, to laze about on a beach in the Virgin Islands and get to say I was swimming and sunbathing “for work.”
What I didn’t expect was everything else that would happen to me — and is still happening to me — thanks to this one little week in my otherwise pleasantly uneventful life."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/lesbian-cruise
Money quote: "I had only a vague idea of what to expect when I boarded the Celebrity Summit in April for a weeklong excursion to the Caribbean. Olivia, a groundbreaking women’s record label turned lesbian travel company, named for the hero of a Dorothy Bussy novel, has catered specifically to lesbian vacationers since its maiden voyage in 1990. When I reached out to Olivia, the company offered me a press ticket for one of its Celebrity-partnered cruises so that I could get a sense of how it's become one of the most successful lesbian companies of all time. I generally expected to meet some nice older ladies with interesting life stories, to explore the tensions of intergenerational lesbian culture and the fraught future of lesbian spaces, to laze about on a beach in the Virgin Islands and get to say I was swimming and sunbathing “for work.”
What I didn’t expect was everything else that would happen to me — and is still happening to me — thanks to this one little week in my otherwise pleasantly uneventful life."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/lesbian-cruise
BuzzFeed News
The Time I Went On A Lesbian Cruise And It Blew Up My Entire Life
I didn’t expect that spending a week with a couple thousand lesbians on a cruise ship would push me to radically reconsider the future I’d planned for myself.
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La produzione industriale di cibo è tutta un'altra cosa rispetto al lavoro di una cucina, per quanto di grandi dimensioni. Per questo servono costanti controlli di qualità: per assicurarsi che il prodotto "esca" nel modo giusto. Servono parecchie persone addette a questo tipo di controllo. In Cina ci pensano le intelligenze artificiali, che sono anche più brave.
Money quote: "The machines, which can learn on the job, are planted at various points along production lines to monitor the state of the food from raw ingredients to end product. They are equipped with electrical and optical sensors to simulate human eyes, noses and tongues, with a “brain” running a neural network algorithm, which looks for patterns in data."
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3009014/dish-real-chinese-food-ask-ai-taste-testing-robot
Money quote: "The machines, which can learn on the job, are planted at various points along production lines to monitor the state of the food from raw ingredients to end product. They are equipped with electrical and optical sensors to simulate human eyes, noses and tongues, with a “brain” running a neural network algorithm, which looks for patterns in data."
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3009014/dish-real-chinese-food-ask-ai-taste-testing-robot
South China Morning Post
China’s food factory AI robots boost profits, paving way for mass use
Manufacturers are profiting from machines that mimic the senses of human experts but not everybody is ready to let a device have the last word on Chinese cuisine.
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Alcune peculiari (e lunghe) osservazioni sugli zainetti, ieri e oggi. Soprattutto oggi, ma anche ieri.
Money quote: “The backpacks of my youth were not optimized. They had padded straps and meaningless loops that dangled like ponytails. My friends and I wore our backpacks at night and on weekends, on hillsides behind suburban baseball diamonds, in eucalyptus groves where the mud slipped out from beneath our feet. We wore them when we shoplifted from Payless ShoeSource, stuffing plastic sandals into their depths. Our backpacks hung on our frames as we told our moms we were sleeping at a friend’s house but stayed out all night, dodging the moons of streetlights and cars. They were our accomplices and our life vests, and we needed their compartments to be endless.”
https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/
Money quote: “The backpacks of my youth were not optimized. They had padded straps and meaningless loops that dangled like ponytails. My friends and I wore our backpacks at night and on weekends, on hillsides behind suburban baseball diamonds, in eucalyptus groves where the mud slipped out from beneath our feet. We wore them when we shoplifted from Payless ShoeSource, stuffing plastic sandals into their depths. Our backpacks hung on our frames as we told our moms we were sleeping at a friend’s house but stayed out all night, dodging the moons of streetlights and cars. They were our accomplices and our life vests, and we needed their compartments to be endless.”
https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/
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Alla fine, da cosa lo valuti un candidato alle elezioni presidenziali? Dal programma? Dalla capacità di dire la verità? Dalla fiducia che ispira? O dalle scelte tipografiche del suo sito? Ecco, ora cominciamo a ragionare...
Money quote: "Presidential-campaign typography took a big step up in 2008, when Barack Obama adopted the then-new Gotham font for his campaign. (Though for his re-election campaign, he had serifs added.) This led to the rise of Gotham throughout the United States. But especially in political campaigns, where the geometric sans has become typographic shorthand for #winning."
https://practicaltypography.com/typography-2020.html
Money quote: "Presidential-campaign typography took a big step up in 2008, when Barack Obama adopted the then-new Gotham font for his campaign. (Though for his re-election campaign, he had serifs added.) This led to the rise of Gotham throughout the United States. But especially in political campaigns, where the geometric sans has become typographic shorthand for #winning."
https://practicaltypography.com/typography-2020.html
Tra cinquant'anni Miami non ci sarà più. Ma la gente continua a comprare case e terreni come se non ci fosse un domani. Il che, in effetti, è così. Un'analisi ancora valida.
Money quote: "The sea level in Miami has risen ten inches since 1900; in the 2000 years prior, it did not really change. The consensus among informed observers is that the sea will rise in Miami Beach somewhere between 13 and 34 inches by 2050. By 2100, it is extremely likely to be closer to six feet, which means, unless you own a yacht and a helicopter, sayonara. Sunset Harbour is expected to fare slightly worse, and to do so more quickly.
Thus, I felt the Sunset Harbour area was a good place to start pretending to buy a home here. Amazingly, in the face of these incontrovertible facts about the climate the business of luxury real estate is chugging along just fine, and I wanted to see the cognitive dissonance up close."
https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/
Money quote: "The sea level in Miami has risen ten inches since 1900; in the 2000 years prior, it did not really change. The consensus among informed observers is that the sea will rise in Miami Beach somewhere between 13 and 34 inches by 2050. By 2100, it is extremely likely to be closer to six feet, which means, unless you own a yacht and a helicopter, sayonara. Sunset Harbour is expected to fare slightly worse, and to do so more quickly.
Thus, I felt the Sunset Harbour area was a good place to start pretending to buy a home here. Amazingly, in the face of these incontrovertible facts about the climate the business of luxury real estate is chugging along just fine, and I wanted to see the cognitive dissonance up close."
https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/
Popula
Heaven or High Water
Selling Miami's last 50 years
Una volta ho scritto che parte del prezzo "premium", più elevato che si paga per i prodotti di Apple deriva dal fatto che questi prodotti non vengono sussidiati dalla monetizzazione degli utenti. È stato commentato che scrivere una cosa del genere vuol dire "essere in malafede o molto ingenuo". È possibile che sia ingenuo, non in malafede. Però, se si parte dall'altra parte, le cose stanno proprio così.
Money quote: "However, for the majority of the industry, the hard, cold reality is that handset profits are non-existent. And the only way for these companies to remain viable is to sell out their users. The foundations of Surveillance Capitalism are built on this. And the only way out of this is to change the underlying economics of handsets. It is not clear how that would come about. Certainly, the rise in phone prices seen in recent years may help. But those phones are only viable for a small segment of the population."
https://digitstodollars.com/2019/04/02/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/
Money quote: "However, for the majority of the industry, the hard, cold reality is that handset profits are non-existent. And the only way for these companies to remain viable is to sell out their users. The foundations of Surveillance Capitalism are built on this. And the only way out of this is to change the underlying economics of handsets. It is not clear how that would come about. Certainly, the rise in phone prices seen in recent years may help. But those phones are only viable for a small segment of the population."
https://digitstodollars.com/2019/04/02/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/
Digits to Dollars
This is why we can’t have nice things
Recently, a friend of ours at the Haas School of Business asked us to review a case study he was preparing to analyze the poor level of profits that handset makers suffer. As we worked through the …
Il modello di sicurezza basato sulle security keys. Una lettura chiarificatrice visto che ne stanno arrivando di nuovi modelli e che il tema della sicurezza è diventato sempre più importante.
Money quote: "This is why I keep using words like “transformative,” “revolutionary,” and “lit” (not so much anymore): SKs basically shrink your threat model from “anyone anywhere in the world who knows your password” to “people in the room with you right now.” Huge!"
https://medium.com/@mrisher_2499/phishing-and-security-keys-b5c8e8e26931?sk=1c1d4ec63df28f4da3971b6508e04d6d
Money quote: "This is why I keep using words like “transformative,” “revolutionary,” and “lit” (not so much anymore): SKs basically shrink your threat model from “anyone anywhere in the world who knows your password” to “people in the room with you right now.” Huge!"
https://medium.com/@mrisher_2499/phishing-and-security-keys-b5c8e8e26931?sk=1c1d4ec63df28f4da3971b6508e04d6d
Medium
Phishing and Security Keys
Not all 2FA is created the same
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Siamo entrati in un’epoca di collaborazione, in cui devono essere cambiati una serie di parametri al modo con il quale lavoriamo. I problemi sono cambiati, ma anche i saperi, le aziende e le persone devono cambiare. Per questo al lavoro (e non solo) si passa sempre più tempo a parlare in gruppo anziché a lavorare da soli - per parte di quel ruolo ci saranno le macchine, probabilmente. A me viene un dubbio: e se essere freelance fosse anche un modo per riuscire a fare le cose, anziché solo a sfuggire alla burocrazia e alle persone il cui lavoro è inserirsi nel lavoro di altre persone? Intanto qui di seguito si parla di come sono fatti - o meglio, come dovrebbero essere fatti - i gruppi.
Money quote: “The complexity of modern problems often precludes any one person from fully understanding them. Factors contributing to rising obesity levels, for example, include transportation systems and infrastructure, media, convenience foods, changing social norms, human biology and psychological factors. Designing an aircraft carrier, to take another example, requires knowledge of nuclear engineering, naval architecture, metallurgy, hydrodynamics, information systems, military protocols, the exercise of modern warfare and, given the long building time, the ability to predict trends in weapon systems.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-hiring-the-best-people-produces-the-least-creative-results
Money quote: “The complexity of modern problems often precludes any one person from fully understanding them. Factors contributing to rising obesity levels, for example, include transportation systems and infrastructure, media, convenience foods, changing social norms, human biology and psychological factors. Designing an aircraft carrier, to take another example, requires knowledge of nuclear engineering, naval architecture, metallurgy, hydrodynamics, information systems, military protocols, the exercise of modern warfare and, given the long building time, the ability to predict trends in weapon systems.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-hiring-the-best-people-produces-the-least-creative-results
Aeon
Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least creative results | Aeon Ideas
It’s tempting to think that hiring the ‘best’ individuals creates ideal teams, but this isn’t how to get things done
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Secondo alcuni Instagram sta morendo, o almeno ha perso il suo significato originario (e la sua demografia sta cambiando drammaticamente, mentre le foto sono sostanzialmente tutte uguali). Secondo altri, ha creato un mercato che sta cambiando la moda e la società. Sembrano ragionamenti nuovi, ma se ne parla da quasi cinque anni. E a schioppare invece è Twitter (forse).
Money quote: "Dear Frances is one of a growing number of brands that might be considered “Instagram famous”. You won’t have seen it on the high street but, one way or another, it may have become a regular feature on your feed. While platforms such as Asos offer a much larger and more easily searchable catalogue of clothes, their items are invariably photographed in a studio, against a white background. Instagram brands, on the other hand, specialise in showcasing their wares “in the wild”, or within a stylised set-up that fits their overarching vision of how potential customers might aspire to dress. It offers the opportunity for brands to convey not just a single “lewk”, but a whole moodboard to Insta-fashion fans."
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/mar/31/squaring-up-how-instagram-fashion-is-changing-the-way-we-shop
Money quote: "Dear Frances is one of a growing number of brands that might be considered “Instagram famous”. You won’t have seen it on the high street but, one way or another, it may have become a regular feature on your feed. While platforms such as Asos offer a much larger and more easily searchable catalogue of clothes, their items are invariably photographed in a studio, against a white background. Instagram brands, on the other hand, specialise in showcasing their wares “in the wild”, or within a stylised set-up that fits their overarching vision of how potential customers might aspire to dress. It offers the opportunity for brands to convey not just a single “lewk”, but a whole moodboard to Insta-fashion fans."
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/mar/31/squaring-up-how-instagram-fashion-is-changing-the-way-we-shop
the Guardian
Squaring up: how Insta-fashion is changing the way we shop
Instagram has become the window display for a new generation of savvy shoppers – and it’s changing the way we consume style, for good and bad. Leah Harper meets some of the pioneers at the forefront of Insta-fashion
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Perché “The Last of Us” è la serie tv del momento
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Cloudflare, zitta zitta, combatte la sua battaglia anche con Google e le pagine AMP (che adesso stanno cambiando, ma questa è la parte lunga della storia che segue)
Money quote: "After speaking with publishers and with Internet users, we have decided not to charge for AMP Real URL. This is not because our customers haven’t been excited or willing to pay for it, AMP makes up a huge component of many site’s traffic. Our motivation is the same as for offering CDN or SSL services to millions of customers free of charge, we are here to help build a better Internet and improving AMP is a huge step in that direction. We believe AMP Real URL is a technology which will fundamentally change the mobile web for the better and should be adopted by every AMP-supporting site. We do have another motive: we are hoping that this will motivate potential customers who value AMP to choose Cloudflare."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-amp-real-url/
Money quote: "After speaking with publishers and with Internet users, we have decided not to charge for AMP Real URL. This is not because our customers haven’t been excited or willing to pay for it, AMP makes up a huge component of many site’s traffic. Our motivation is the same as for offering CDN or SSL services to millions of customers free of charge, we are here to help build a better Internet and improving AMP is a huge step in that direction. We believe AMP Real URL is a technology which will fundamentally change the mobile web for the better and should be adopted by every AMP-supporting site. We do have another motive: we are hoping that this will motivate potential customers who value AMP to choose Cloudflare."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-amp-real-url/
The Cloudflare Blog
Announcing AMP Real URL
The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly.
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Un tentativo basato sulla statistica per capire perché i progetti software richiedono più tempo di quanto non venga previsto
Money quote: "Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something. One pet theory I’ve had for a really long time, is that some of this is really just a statistical artifact."
https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html
Money quote: "Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something. One pet theory I’ve had for a really long time, is that some of this is really just a statistical artifact."
https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html
Erik Bernhardsson
Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
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Due fumetti di Zio Paperone di Don Rosa non saranno più ripubblicati per scelta di Disney. Con il rischio che la Saga di Paperone de’ Paperoni non venga mai più ristampata integralmente. E ora si teme anche la censura di alcune storie di Carl Barks.
Tutti i dettagli: https://bit.ly/3lFlMfS
Tutti i dettagli: https://bit.ly/3lFlMfS
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La fine del binge watching: ecco cosa ne penso - la mia rubrica su Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2023/02/la-fine-del-binge-watching/
https://fumettologica.it/2023/02/la-fine-del-binge-watching/
Fumettologica
La fine del binge watching
Le narrazioni devono essere distribuite e avere un ritmo regolare, non cadere come una grandinata sulla testa di noi poveri spettatori.
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Il problema che segue non si applica solo al design industriale, penso, ma in quell'ambito è spettacolare. Abbiamo strumenti pensati per funzionare in un modo diverso da come servirebbe. Soprattutto a chi lavora a molto progetti differenti per committenti diversi.
Money quote: "Libraries in applications like Sketch, Figma and Adobe 😆 work well for product designers but much less so for agency designers.
To understand why, let me explain the difference between product and agency designers. Product designers are people who work on a single, or a couple of products that their company creates. Think of the design team at Airbnb or indeed, companies like Sketch itself. These designers might have a single design system or style guide that they work from, with a single or couple of projects built on top of this design system.
Agency designers on the other hand are the designers that work in web agencies, where at any time they might be working on projects for half a dozen clients, each with a different design system (if at all) or style guide and varying levels of design maturity. These designers switch between projects often and might even have to hand over assets to a new designer depending on their project planning."
https://kilianvalkhof.com/2019/design/what-design-tools-get-wrong
Money quote: "Libraries in applications like Sketch, Figma and Adobe 😆 work well for product designers but much less so for agency designers.
To understand why, let me explain the difference between product and agency designers. Product designers are people who work on a single, or a couple of products that their company creates. Think of the design team at Airbnb or indeed, companies like Sketch itself. These designers might have a single design system or style guide that they work from, with a single or couple of projects built on top of this design system.
Agency designers on the other hand are the designers that work in web agencies, where at any time they might be working on projects for half a dozen clients, each with a different design system (if at all) or style guide and varying levels of design maturity. These designers switch between projects often and might even have to hand over assets to a new designer depending on their project planning."
https://kilianvalkhof.com/2019/design/what-design-tools-get-wrong
Kilian Valkhof | Front-end & user experience developer
What design tools get wrong | Kilian Valkhof
Modern design tools, of both the vector and code kind, are amazing pieces of software that in recent years have transformed the design profession, but none of them seem to really understand the context that we currently design for. The remnants of fixed-dimensions…
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Come si fa ricerca? Di solito si parte dal progetto, ma è un problema perché questo diminuisce drasticamente il tasso di innovazione: i progetti vengono approvati da persone competenti nella materia che hanno già idee molto chiare su quali siano le basi del sistema. Invece, bisognerebbe approcciare più spesso il problema in un altro modo: partire dalle persone, fidarsi, e lasciare che vadano avanti anche quando non capiamo di cosa si stanno occupando. Fino agli anni Sessanta l'informatica e internet sono andate avanti così. Poi tutto è diventato un gigantesco collo di bottiglia. E le cose non migliorano certo con l'università - il posto dove si dovrebbe fare ricerca di base - che si è trasformata in un giochino per totalizzare i punteggi più alti nelle metriche predefinite.
Money quote: "Alan and Vishal take a “People, not projects” approach to research, and showed great trust in hiring and funding us in a way that wasn’t attached to any particular project or outcome. I’ve since come to better understand their view on pure, long-horizon research. If you’re looking to invent entirely new ideas, you can’t define your research within the bounds of existing ideas. You have to choose people to trust, and then trust them. You have to support them even when you don’t quite understand what they’re doing."
https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/
Money quote: "Alan and Vishal take a “People, not projects” approach to research, and showed great trust in hiring and funding us in a way that wasn’t attached to any particular project or outcome. I’ve since come to better understand their view on pure, long-horizon research. If you’re looking to invent entirely new ideas, you can’t define your research within the bounds of existing ideas. You have to choose people to trust, and then trust them. You have to support them even when you don’t quite understand what they’re doing."
https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/
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Questa è una storia su come essere un po' meglio organizzati possa fare una grande differenza. Oppure, su come si fosse drammaticamente disorganizzati fino a ieri. Gli ospedali scozzesi aggiungono una lista di dodici cose da fare dopo le operazioni e le morti crollano in maniera spettacolare.
Money quote: "A study indicated a 37% decrease since 2008, which it attributed to the implementation of a safety checklist.
The 19-item list - which was created by the World Health Organization - is supposed to encourage teamwork and communication during operations.
The death rate fell to 0.46 per 100 procedures between 2000 and 2014, analysis of 6.8m operations showed."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-47953541
Money quote: "A study indicated a 37% decrease since 2008, which it attributed to the implementation of a safety checklist.
The 19-item list - which was created by the World Health Organization - is supposed to encourage teamwork and communication during operations.
The death rate fell to 0.46 per 100 procedures between 2000 and 2014, analysis of 6.8m operations showed."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-47953541
BBC News
Scotland post-surgical deaths drop by a third, say researchers
Researchers attribute the implementation of a safety checklist for the fall in deaths after surgery.
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