Yes, ci sarò anche io!

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

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

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

Ci sto lavorando adesso ed esce domani: Mostly Weekly ~129 è quasi pronto

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/

I migliori libri sulla Open Innovation - La mia selezione per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-sulla-open-innovation/

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

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”🐚.

Been there, done that

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

Gli americani con Joe Biden stanno entrando una fase di crisi piuttosto intensa e carsica. Rimettono in discussione molto cose perché Donald Trump era talmente sopra le righe da coprire il vero problema. Che non era lui ma il mondo che cambia radicalmente.

Adesso gli americani, dopo averlo criticato per decenni, si chiedono: e se avessero ragione i francesi?

Money quote: "“Buy Taiwan, hold Italy, sell France” advised Thomas Friedman in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, his 1999 paean to liberal ­globalisation. Around the time of the Iraq War, the French were dismissed as “Old Europe” by Donald Rumsfeld, then the US ­secretary of defence, and “cheese eating surrender monkeys” elsewhere. “If the French social model is so great, why is the country in flames?” sighed Peter Mandelson in 2005 as riots gripped Parisian suburbs."

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2021/08/why-world-becoming-more-french

Il lato oscuro della Mela: una vecchia storia di Bloomberg ancora attuale (forse)

Money quote: "This building is as bland as the main Apple campus is striking. From the outside, there appears to be a reception area, but it’s unstaffed, which makes sense given that people working in this satellite office—mostly employees of Apple contractors working on Apple Maps—use the back door. Workers say managers instructed them to walk several blocks away before calling for a ride home. Several people who worked here say it’s widely referred to within Apple as a “black site,” as in a covert ops facility."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-11/apple-black-site-gives-contractors-few-perks-little-security

Art and American dystopia all in one

Il mondo è un posto complicato. Anche l'idea che abbiamo di libertà, ad esempio, non è così semplice come sembra.

Money quote: "Could people even be coerced in the name of freedom?

The 20th-century political philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) thought that the answer to both these questions was ‘Yes’, and in his essay ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ (1958) he distinguished two kinds of freedom (or liberty; Berlin used the words interchangeably), which he called negative freedom and positive freedom."

https://aeon.co/ideas/tools-for-thinking-isaiah-berlins-two-concepts-of-freedom

A cosa serve Tucidide

Money quote: "For Adams, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War contained within it insight of every possible “usefull” sort: “You will find it full of Instruction to the Orator, the Statesman, the General, as well as to the Historian and the Philosopher.”"

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/possession-all-time