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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Se Google anziché scannerizzare libri si fosse messa a digitalizzare i fossili che stanno nei magazzini dei musei inutilizzati, probabilmente staremmo facendo strepitose scoperte paleontologiche. Il costo oltretutto sarebbe stato notevolmente inferiore.

Money quote: "“There are enormous amounts of data sitting in various museum collections,” says Peter Roopnarine, the curator of geology at the California Academy of Sciences and one of the authors of the paper, which was published last month in Biology Letters. “Our picture of what’s going on is based on whatever small fraction we manage to study, and publish upon.”"

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fossil-online-database
Nintendo ha deciso di uscire dal settore dei videogiochi per smartphone e concentrarsi sulla Switch. Un po' perché non gli era venuto bene, un po' perché a tre anni dal lancio la Switch sta accelerando alla grande. E i giochi gli vengono meglio là, ve lo garantisco.

Money quote: "Nintendo Co. is retreating from the $77 billion mobile gaming arena after disappointing results deflated once-lofty ambitions, ending a multiyear effort just as the market goes through an unprecedented Covid-era boom."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-21/nintendo-chills-mobile-ambitions-after-animal-crossing-success
La lotta nel settore retail online (ma anche in quello fisico) non conosce quartiere e procede a ritmo serrato. Adesso siamo arrivati alla parte in cui tutti producono per la piattaforma.

Money quote: "Amazon’s private label business is booming, on pace to generate $7.5 billion this year and $25 billion by 2022, according to estimates from investment firm SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. To accelerate that growth, the company is inviting manufacturers to create products exclusively for its collection of private brands."

https://qz.com/1414238/secret-amazon-brands-are-quietly-taking-over-amazon-com/
Chi crede nelle teorie del complotto ha una testa particolare. Perché ci sono tante intelligenze, e uno non è mica che deve avercele tutte. Però alcune capacità analitiche sarebbe meglio che le avesse.

Money quote: "I want to argue for something which is controversial, although I believe that it is also intuitive and commonsensical. My claim is this: Oliver believes what he does because that is the kind of thinker he is or, to put it more bluntly, because there is something wrong with how he thinks. The problem with conspiracy theorists is not, as the US legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues, that they have little relevant information. The key to what they end up believing is how they interpret and respond to the vast quantities of relevant information at their disposal. I want to suggest that this is fundamentally a question of the way they are. Oliver isn’t mad (or at least, he needn’t be). Nevertheless, his beliefs about 9/11 are the result of the peculiarities of his intellectual constitution – in a word, of his intellectual character."

https://aeon.co/essays/the-intellectual-character-of-conspiracy-theorists
La grande lista dei film indipendenti. Ma veramente indipendenti (un paio posso dire che sono anche davvero belli: ne ho visti pochi però. E voi?)

Money quote: "With this in mind, compiling a list of the best—or maybe let’s say the most interesting—American independent films since 2000 is a fool’s errand. I don’t mind looking foolish (I wrote a book about Showgirls, for god’s sake) but know that there were some ground rules here, only a couple of which were broken. (See if you can spot them!) No movies produced or distributed by major studios or mini-majors, which led to the decision to leave out A24 (meaning no Lady Bird, or The Witch, or Spring Breakers, or Hereditary, or you name it); no foreign titles, since financing structures abroad are even more difficult to categorize (which means that authentically shoestring masterpieces like Ben Wheatley’s Down Terrace didn’t qualify); no obvious “calling card” movies (even though some of these filmmakers got snapped up by studios pretty fast); and no need to include certain films that Ringer readers probably already know and love. (Sean Fennessey pushed for the inclusion of a certain Nicolas Winding Refn thriller starring Ryan Gosling whose title rhymes with “dive” but I exercised my one Canadian-freelancer veto, since that movie sucks.)"

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/10/18/17990106/the-30-best-truly-independent-films-of-the-21st-century
Una lista definitiva, per chi vuole auto-aiutarsi, dei libri che rendono più produttivi. Commentata da chi di produttività se ne intende (oggettivamente).

Money quote: "Deciding to “be more productive” is one of those goals that sounds really good — because who doesn’t want to get more done in fewer hours or waste less time on social media? — but is actually hard to do well. That’s because productivity is such a slippery concept, with a different meaning for every person, depending on what they ultimately want to accomplish. And what helps one person stay on track might be the productivity tool that successfully guides another.

So for this reading list on the best productivity books and books on time management, I reached out to a broad range of experts from academia, business, journalism, and tech."

http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-productivity-books.html
Nei momenti di tristezza, per elaborare un lutto (un'assenza, una separazione, una dipartita) in Giappone un signore ha costruito una piccola cabina telefonica con un telefono di quelli vecchi, che non è connesso a niente. Messaggi nel vento, insomma: vocali verso dev/null. È un posto dove andare a piangere e parlare in solitudine con chi non c'è più.

L'idea è stata di Itaru Sasaki, che aveva perso un cugino. Poi il terremoto/maremoto/incidente nucleare del 2011 hanno devastato anche l'are di Otsuchi, dove vive l'uomo, e lui ha dato l'accesso alla cabina del telefono ai suoi vicini. Pian piano la voce si è sparsa e oggi c'è gente che va in Giappone e si ritaglia un paio di giorni solo per poter fare una telefonata a qualcuno che non c'è più.

Money quote: "Otsuchi can be reached from Tokyo by high-speed train. Take the train to the Otsuchi (Otsucki) station. It can also be accessed by a car ride which is about 7 hours by taking the Tohoku expressway. The phone booth is just outside the city, north of Dai Chiwari 11, but not as far north as Dai Chiwari 12. It's the land side of the railway line. Use the published coordinates if you have GPS."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wind-telephone