Quello in cui crediamo, da dove viene, cos'è, cosa dice? Perché in realtà, qualsiasi cosa sia, ci influenza moltissimo: è difficile essere sufficientemente consapevoli di se stessi e del mondo con le sue credenze per formarsi una propria, autonoma visione del mondo o almeno abbracciarne una come atto di reale volontà e non di appartenenza pregressa o come risultato di una più o meno esplicita influenza.
Money quote: "Let’s work with a hypothetical example. Suppose I’m raised among atheists and firmly believe that God doesn’t exist. I realise that, had I grown up in a religious community, I would almost certainly have believed in God. Furthermore, we can imagine that, had I grown up a theist, I would have been exposed to all the considerations that I take to be relevant to the question of whether God exists: I would have learned science and history, I would have heard all the same arguments for and against the existence of God. The difference is that I would interpret this evidence differently. Divergences in belief result from the fact that people weigh the evidence for and against theism in varying ways. It’s not as if pooling resources and having a conversation would result in one side convincing the other – we wouldn’t have had centuries of religious conflict if things were so simple. Rather, each side will insist that the balance of considerations supports its position – and this insistence will be a product of the social environments that people on that side were raised in."
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-do-you-believe-what-you-do-run-some-diagnostics-on-it
Money quote: "Let’s work with a hypothetical example. Suppose I’m raised among atheists and firmly believe that God doesn’t exist. I realise that, had I grown up in a religious community, I would almost certainly have believed in God. Furthermore, we can imagine that, had I grown up a theist, I would have been exposed to all the considerations that I take to be relevant to the question of whether God exists: I would have learned science and history, I would have heard all the same arguments for and against the existence of God. The difference is that I would interpret this evidence differently. Divergences in belief result from the fact that people weigh the evidence for and against theism in varying ways. It’s not as if pooling resources and having a conversation would result in one side convincing the other – we wouldn’t have had centuries of religious conflict if things were so simple. Rather, each side will insist that the balance of considerations supports its position – and this insistence will be a product of the social environments that people on that side were raised in."
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-do-you-believe-what-you-do-run-some-diagnostics-on-it
Aeon
Why do you believe what you do? Run some diagnostics on it | Aeon Ideas
Check the temperature of your beliefs: did you just get lucky, or are other perfectly reasonable explanations at work?
Troverete pochissimi articoli come questo, capaci di spiegare bene (se conoscete già qualcosa della fotografia a pellicola e dell'attuale stato del mercato) cosa è successo e quali sono le prospettive nei prossimi anni.
Money quote: "I’m down to my last 35 boxes of Fuji FP-100c, having sold 50 or so boxes and shot some of the film. I’m not a fan of it, as I’ve already explained, so I might sell it all and put the funds towards buying a digital back for my Hasselblad."
https://leejo.github.io/2020/08/14/the_market_for_discontinued_film/
Money quote: "I’m down to my last 35 boxes of Fuji FP-100c, having sold 50 or so boxes and shot some of the film. I’m not a fan of it, as I’ve already explained, so I might sell it all and put the funds towards buying a digital back for my Hasselblad."
https://leejo.github.io/2020/08/14/the_market_for_discontinued_film/
Eccola: una recensione molto particolare per Fumettologica: Le botteghe di Tokyo illustrate ad acquerello da Urbanowicz
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/08/botteghe-di-tokyo-urbanowicz-ippocampo-libro/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/08/botteghe-di-tokyo-urbanowicz-ippocampo-libro/
Fumettologica
Le botteghe di Tokyo illustrate ad acquerello da Urbanowicz
Un libro edito da L'Ippocampo raccoglie le notevoli illustrazioni ad acquerello di Mateusz Urbanowicz che ritraggono le botteghe di Tokyo.
C'è questa specie di male oscuro del nostro tempo digitale, la procrastinazione, che secondo me affonda le sue radici nell'eccesso di connessione e nel produttivismo estremo. Sia quel che sia, viene sempre più spesso messa al centro del dibattito sia nella sua variante positiva (Come si fa a produrre tanto?) che in quella negativa (Come si perde la motivazione?). Dal grande oceano digitale dell'autoaiuto ecco a voi il metodo Fogg (che non è una sigla, ma il nome di un docente di Stanford).
Money quote: "Sometimes we have the ability to do something, and even have a trigger like a time window and a to-do item, but we don't feel motivated.
We stare at a list of tasks, and stare, and stare, and none of them seem particularly exciting.
So we do something else - procrastinate."
https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/how-to-stop-procrastinating-by-using-the-fogg-behavior-model
Money quote: "Sometimes we have the ability to do something, and even have a trigger like a time window and a to-do item, but we don't feel motivated.
We stare at a list of tasks, and stare, and stare, and none of them seem particularly exciting.
So we do something else - procrastinate."
https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/how-to-stop-procrastinating-by-using-the-fogg-behavior-model
www.deprocrastination.co
How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model
B J Fogg is a Stanford professor who came up with a simple model of behavior that helps us understand why we take action or not take action at any given moment.
Cosa succede alle startup e alle loro raccolte del capitale?
Money quote: "But I now realize that this is the wrong framing because simply staying alive is an inadequate goal for a company. Founders start companies to find product market fit and grow. Venture capital is designed to speed growth, not to extend runway."
https://www.aaronkharris.com/raise-less-money
Money quote: "But I now realize that this is the wrong framing because simply staying alive is an inadequate goal for a company. Founders start companies to find product market fit and grow. Venture capital is designed to speed growth, not to extend runway."
https://www.aaronkharris.com/raise-less-money
Forwarded from Migliori Canali Telegram | @appelmoladg
🔥 ATTENZIONE 🔥
Questo venerdì, alle ore 15:00, ci sarà la premiazione dell'evento Migliori Canali Telegram, dove verranno annunciati i vincitori del premio del pubblico e della critica!
Nel corso dell'evento interverranno poi gli amministratori di due canali vincitori di numerose edizioni, nonché esempio di qualità e successo su Telegram: Antonio Dini (@mostlyiwrite) e Marco Sassara (@OrbitaFerrariF1). Moderati dal direttore di @appelmoladg, Guglielmo Crotti, racconteranno la propria esperienza e commenteranno insieme al pubblico la situazione attuale dei content creator su Telegram.
A venerdì, sincronizzate gli orologi! 📆
Questo venerdì, alle ore 15:00, ci sarà la premiazione dell'evento Migliori Canali Telegram, dove verranno annunciati i vincitori del premio del pubblico e della critica!
Nel corso dell'evento interverranno poi gli amministratori di due canali vincitori di numerose edizioni, nonché esempio di qualità e successo su Telegram: Antonio Dini (@mostlyiwrite) e Marco Sassara (@OrbitaFerrariF1). Moderati dal direttore di @appelmoladg, Guglielmo Crotti, racconteranno la propria esperienza e commenteranno insieme al pubblico la situazione attuale dei content creator su Telegram.
A venerdì, sincronizzate gli orologi! 📆
Se c'è uno che da solo ha in mano tutto il codice dell'azienda (o quella parte del progetto) non va molto bene. Perché se lo investe un bus oppure lo assume qualcun altro, voi avete un bel problema. Un buon ragionamento.
Money quote: "Thankfully, I have no personal experience with a colleague getting hit by a bus, but I know a few that have been hired by Netflix. Remember to look both ways before crossing a street and never underestimate the amount of money the FAANGs have to poach your talent. It is effortless to lose good talent. When (not if) your developer leaves to make $500k+ a year in the valley, you’ll be in a much better position with a lower bus factor to quickly fill the gap and keep moving forward."
https://www.neomindlabs.com/post/your-developer-wont-get-hit-by-a-bus-theyll-get-hired-by-netflix
Money quote: "Thankfully, I have no personal experience with a colleague getting hit by a bus, but I know a few that have been hired by Netflix. Remember to look both ways before crossing a street and never underestimate the amount of money the FAANGs have to poach your talent. It is effortless to lose good talent. When (not if) your developer leaves to make $500k+ a year in the valley, you’ll be in a much better position with a lower bus factor to quickly fill the gap and keep moving forward."
https://www.neomindlabs.com/post/your-developer-wont-get-hit-by-a-bus-theyll-get-hired-by-netflix
Forwarded from Guglielmo Crotti
Tra un quarto d'ora circa sarò in diretta su @Migliori_Canali_Telegram. Se volete unirvi e dare un'ascolto, sarebbe solo un piacere! ✌️
La nuova versione di Mostly Weekly: "uno di ciascuno" (più o meno)
La ~128 è online, potete leggerla qui. E se volete, abbonarvi; tanto è tutto gratuito
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/weekly/archivio/128.html
La ~128 è online, potete leggerla qui. E se volete, abbonarvi; tanto è tutto gratuito
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/weekly/archivio/128.html
Come fanno i bambini a imparare la loro lingua natale alla velocità della luce e in modo apparentemente indolore? Secondo Noam Chomsky, lo fanno grazie al possesso di una grammatica universale iscritta nel loro Dna. Ahi ahi, bella idea ma a quanto pare non vera (ci abbiamo messo quarant'anni a capirlo, però).
Money quote: "At a stroke, this device removes the pain of learning one’s mother tongue, and explains how a child can pick up a native language in such a short time. It’s brilliant. Chomsky’s idea dominated the science of language for four decades. And yet it turns out to be a myth. A welter of new evidence has emerged over the past few years, demonstrating that Chomsky is plain wrong."
https://aeon.co/essays/the-evidence-is-in-there-is-no-language-instinct
Money quote: "At a stroke, this device removes the pain of learning one’s mother tongue, and explains how a child can pick up a native language in such a short time. It’s brilliant. Chomsky’s idea dominated the science of language for four decades. And yet it turns out to be a myth. A welter of new evidence has emerged over the past few years, demonstrating that Chomsky is plain wrong."
https://aeon.co/essays/the-evidence-is-in-there-is-no-language-instinct
Aeon
Real talk
For decades, the idea of a language instinct has dominated linguistics. It is simple, powerful and completely wrong
Ci sto lavorando adesso ed esce domani: Mostly Weekly ~129 è quasi pronto
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
Cos'è la nostalgia? Perché ne soffriamo? È qualcosa di concreto o solo un'etichetta che tiene insieme cose molto diverse? Dalla malattia neurologica a quella psichiatrica sino alle neuroscienze. Ma in mezzo c'è spazio anche per la filosofia. E tutti sono sospesi tra chi si rammarica sia tramontata la propria gioventù e chi invece vorrebbe andare nel paese della Cuccagna che non c'è più.
Money quote: "Coined by the Swiss physician Johannes Hofer in 1688, ‘nostalgia’ referred to a medical condition – homesickness – characterised by an incapacitating longing for one’s motherland. Hofer favoured the term because it combined two essential features of the illness: the desire to return home (nostos) and the pain (algos) of being unable to do so. Nostalgia’s symptomatology was imprecise – it included rumination, melancholia, insomnia, anxiety and lack of appetite – and was thought to affect primarily soldiers and sailors. Physicians also disagreed about its cause. Hofer thought that nostalgia was caused by nerve vibrations where traces of ideas of the motherland ‘still cling’, whereas others, noticing that it was found predominantly among Swiss soldiers fighting at lower altitudes, proposed instead that nostalgia was caused by changes in atmospheric pressure, or eardrum damage from the clanging of Swiss cowbells. Once nostalgia was identified among soldiers from various nationalities, the idea that it was geographically specific was abandoned."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/when-nostalgia-was-a-disease/278648/
Money quote: "Coined by the Swiss physician Johannes Hofer in 1688, ‘nostalgia’ referred to a medical condition – homesickness – characterised by an incapacitating longing for one’s motherland. Hofer favoured the term because it combined two essential features of the illness: the desire to return home (nostos) and the pain (algos) of being unable to do so. Nostalgia’s symptomatology was imprecise – it included rumination, melancholia, insomnia, anxiety and lack of appetite – and was thought to affect primarily soldiers and sailors. Physicians also disagreed about its cause. Hofer thought that nostalgia was caused by nerve vibrations where traces of ideas of the motherland ‘still cling’, whereas others, noticing that it was found predominantly among Swiss soldiers fighting at lower altitudes, proposed instead that nostalgia was caused by changes in atmospheric pressure, or eardrum damage from the clanging of Swiss cowbells. Once nostalgia was identified among soldiers from various nationalities, the idea that it was geographically specific was abandoned."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/when-nostalgia-was-a-disease/278648/
The Atlantic
When Nostalgia Was a Disease
Cures ranged from sending sufferers home to threatening them with pain and terror—but some treatments contained sound advice.
I migliori libri sulla Open Innovation - La mia selezione per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-sulla-open-innovation/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-sulla-open-innovation/
macitynet.it
I migliori libri sulla Open Innovation
ebook, Libri
A quanto pare quelli di 1Password, che a lungo è stato l'orgoglio del mondo Mac, stanno facendo un disastro
Money quote:
"The issues are twofold:
1Password 8 will become subscription-only, thus removing the option to buy it outright; and
they’ve moved the app over to something called Electron."
https://medium.com/macoclock/the-1password-disaster-and-two-brilliant-1password-alternatives-c9adc2d7ae44
Money quote:
"The issues are twofold:
1Password 8 will become subscription-only, thus removing the option to buy it outright; and
they’ve moved the app over to something called Electron."
https://medium.com/macoclock/the-1password-disaster-and-two-brilliant-1password-alternatives-c9adc2d7ae44
Medium
The 1Password Disaster (And Two Brilliant 1Password Alternatives)
What’s happened to the world’s most-loved password manager?
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
Un’idea di poesia https://www.facebook.com/100044148292215/posts/392204562261150/?d=n: “tutto quello che si forma dentro un essere umano è lingua, se ci pensi bene la casa di tutto è sempre una frase. La poesia è corpo che si affranca dal ronzio della lingua, è la strada per raggiungere il silenzio, la luce, le cose che stanno fuori di noi”🐚.
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Money quote: "Podcasts introductions. We have found introductions to podcasts–for ourselves and for clients– can more easily be produced using GPT-3. To make it even creepier, we have even tested AI-powered voice technology for the audio of the podcasts themselves. Imagine that, a entire podcast show where no humans create any of the content"
https://readwrite.com/2021/08/20/how-gpt-3-and-artificial-intelligence-will-destroy-the-internet/
Money quote: "Podcasts introductions. We have found introductions to podcasts–for ourselves and for clients– can more easily be produced using GPT-3. To make it even creepier, we have even tested AI-powered voice technology for the audio of the podcasts themselves. Imagine that, a entire podcast show where no humans create any of the content"
https://readwrite.com/2021/08/20/how-gpt-3-and-artificial-intelligence-will-destroy-the-internet/
ReadWrite
How GPT-3 and Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy the Internet - ReadWrite
GPT-3 holds great promise, but in the wrong hands, it could be more than just robots taking over the world. It could be just more garbage content online.
Apple, i 10 anni di Tim Cook da ad in 5 successi e 5 sconfitte - di solito non faccio queste classifiche ma per Wired ne è valsa la pena.
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/08/24/apple-tim-cook-ad-10-anni-successi-sconfitte/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/08/24/apple-tim-cook-ad-10-anni-successi-sconfitte/
WIRED.IT
I 10 anni di Tim Cook a capo di Apple in 5 successi e 5 sconfitte
Il manager ha saputo far crescere l'azienda e conquistare nuove fette di mercato, ma non ha la visione di Jobs e la scommessa sulla privacy non gli ha risparmiato critiche
C'è un problema con Hugh Jackman. L'uomo universalmente noto per aver interpretato il muscolare Wolverine è in realtà un attore notevole, ma finora poco apprezzato. Adesso sta cercando di costruirsi una seconda metà di carriera molto interessante. Riuscirà a venire fuori?
Money quote: "Though Jackman’s first major starring role was in X-Men, he was originally plucked from the world of musical theater, where his boisterously chipper turn as Curly in a West End production of Oklahoma! had won him plaudits. So his film follow-ups to X-Men were on the gentler side: the overlooked romantic comedies Someone Like You, where he played a charming cad, and Kate & Leopold, which cast him as an English gentleman. In an earlier era, that was the typical strategy for a new male actor in demand: get him in a generic rom-com quickly, along with a generic action thriller (in this case, the nonsensical hacker flick Swordfish)."
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/08/hugh-jackman-underrated-hbo-reminiscence/619857/
Money quote: "Though Jackman’s first major starring role was in X-Men, he was originally plucked from the world of musical theater, where his boisterously chipper turn as Curly in a West End production of Oklahoma! had won him plaudits. So his film follow-ups to X-Men were on the gentler side: the overlooked romantic comedies Someone Like You, where he played a charming cad, and Kate & Leopold, which cast him as an English gentleman. In an earlier era, that was the typical strategy for a new male actor in demand: get him in a generic rom-com quickly, along with a generic action thriller (in this case, the nonsensical hacker flick Swordfish)."
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/08/hugh-jackman-underrated-hbo-reminiscence/619857/
The Atlantic
Why Is Hugh Jackman Still Underappreciated?
He can sing, rage, and plumb surprisingly dark depths. In "Reminiscence," he also displays a continued embrace of his age.
Sull'importanza dell'ottimismo
Money quote: "Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what “needs to be” in the face of what is. Optimism is not uncool; it is rebellious and daring and vital."
http://time.com/5520554/guillermo-del-toro-radical-optimism/
Money quote: "Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what “needs to be” in the face of what is. Optimism is not uncool; it is rebellious and daring and vital."
http://time.com/5520554/guillermo-del-toro-radical-optimism/
TIME
The Most Radical and Rebellious Choice You Can Make Is to Be Optimistic
'It is the hard choice, the brave choice'
Se anziché cercare di fare gli imprenditori della nostra vita, per una volta cercassimo di essere scienziati della nostra esistenza?
Money quote: "When a scientist runs an experiment, there are all sorts of results that could happen. Some results are positive and some are negative, but all of them are data points. Each result is a piece of data that can ultimately lead to an answer.
And that’s exactly how a scientist treats failure: as another data point."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/treat-failure-like-a-scientist
Money quote: "When a scientist runs an experiment, there are all sorts of results that could happen. Some results are positive and some are negative, but all of them are data points. Each result is a piece of data that can ultimately lead to an answer.
And that’s exactly how a scientist treats failure: as another data point."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/treat-failure-like-a-scientist
Pocket
Treat Failure Like a Scientist
Go beyond learning from your mistakes.