I dieci lavori più strapagati in America. Un vecchio pezzo del 2003 che è sempre divertente rileggere: probabilmente la maggior parte sono ancora buoni...
Money quote: "For a 35-hour workweek, orthodontists earn a median $350,000 a year, according to the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics. General dentists, meanwhile, earn about half as much working 39 hours a week on average, in a much dirtier job."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-10-most-overpaid-jobs-in-the-us
Money quote: "For a 35-hour workweek, orthodontists earn a median $350,000 a year, according to the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics. General dentists, meanwhile, earn about half as much working 39 hours a week on average, in a much dirtier job."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-10-most-overpaid-jobs-in-the-us
MarketWatch
Ten most overpaid jobs in the U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid, but many of us take home bloated paychecks far beyond what we deserve.
Non tutti sono come i grandi di WIRED e delle altre testate americane. C'è anche chi si arrabatta. Però, se hai trovato un buon angolo, vale la pena lo stesso.
In questo caso il parallelo hardware e software con la rete come fattore di livellamento è interessante.
Money quote: "Production culture here points at a world of networked manufacturing, as physical objects become as internetworked as our digital ones. Already, makers can develop and ship hardware products almost as quickly as they can develop and ship ideas. And this time frame is expected to shorten dramatically in coming years"
https://fusion.net/story/338939/created-in-china-shenzhen-hardware-startups/
In questo caso il parallelo hardware e software con la rete come fattore di livellamento è interessante.
Money quote: "Production culture here points at a world of networked manufacturing, as physical objects become as internetworked as our digital ones. Already, makers can develop and ship hardware products almost as quickly as they can develop and ship ideas. And this time frame is expected to shorten dramatically in coming years"
https://fusion.net/story/338939/created-in-china-shenzhen-hardware-startups/
Sono rientrato da Los Angeles circa una settimana fa. Ecco qui il pezzo che racconta cosa ci sono andato a fare: c’era la finale del campionato mondiale di Call of Duty.
Mettetevi comodi perché non è una cosa breve.
Money quote: “Inglewood è una cittadina a nordovest di downtown LA che fa parte della Grande Los Angeles: circa 100mila abitanti, una reputazione di violenza e criminalità che negli ultimi tempi parrebbero essersi stemperate. In compenso, non c’è assolutamente niente se non vialoni con lunghissime palme, case e casette solo in legno di non più di due piani, motel, appartamenti arredati, negozi di automobili all’aperto, supermercati, ditte per la disinfestazione, l’infinito rumore degli aeroplani che atterrano. Perché Inglewood (e in particolare The Forum) sono sotto il tratto terminale dell’aerovia delle quattro piste di LAX.”
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2016/09/12/call-of-duty/
Mettetevi comodi perché non è una cosa breve.
Money quote: “Inglewood è una cittadina a nordovest di downtown LA che fa parte della Grande Los Angeles: circa 100mila abitanti, una reputazione di violenza e criminalità che negli ultimi tempi parrebbero essersi stemperate. In compenso, non c’è assolutamente niente se non vialoni con lunghissime palme, case e casette solo in legno di non più di due piani, motel, appartamenti arredati, negozi di automobili all’aperto, supermercati, ditte per la disinfestazione, l’infinito rumore degli aeroplani che atterrano. Perché Inglewood (e in particolare The Forum) sono sotto il tratto terminale dell’aerovia delle quattro piste di LAX.”
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2016/09/12/call-of-duty/
Il Post
Il campionato del mondo di Call of Duty
Si scrive "videogioco" ma si pronuncia "eSport"
Ma la vita è una narrazione? Siamo soggetti/oggetti narrativi? A dire il vero, potremmo avanzare parecchi dubbi sia da un punto di vista razionale che intuitivo. C’è chi ci ha provato, però, con ottimi risultati dialettici.
Money quote: “But many of us aren’t Narrative in this sense. We’re naturally – deeply – non-Narrative. We’re anti-Narrative by fundamental constitution. It’s not just that the deliverances of memory are, for us, hopelessly piecemeal and disordered, even when we’re trying to remember a temporally extended sequence of events. The point is more general. It concerns all parts of life, life’s ‘great shambles’, in the American novelist Henry James’s expression. This seems a much better characterisation of the large-scale structure of human existence as we find it. Life simply never assumes a story-like shape for us. And neither, from a moral point of view, should it.”
https://aeon.co/essays/let-s-ditch-the-dangerous-idea-that-life-is-a-story
Money quote: “But many of us aren’t Narrative in this sense. We’re naturally – deeply – non-Narrative. We’re anti-Narrative by fundamental constitution. It’s not just that the deliverances of memory are, for us, hopelessly piecemeal and disordered, even when we’re trying to remember a temporally extended sequence of events. The point is more general. It concerns all parts of life, life’s ‘great shambles’, in the American novelist Henry James’s expression. This seems a much better characterisation of the large-scale structure of human existence as we find it. Life simply never assumes a story-like shape for us. And neither, from a moral point of view, should it.”
https://aeon.co/essays/let-s-ditch-the-dangerous-idea-that-life-is-a-story
Aeon
I am not a story
Some find it comforting to think of life as a story. Others find that absurd. So are you a Narrative or a non-Narrative?
XKCD spiega cos’è il riscaldamento globale ripercorrendo la storia termica recente del nostro pianeta. E i suoi scenari futuri...
https://xkcd.com/1732/
https://xkcd.com/1732/
xkcd
Earth Temperature Timeline
Ho lasciato questa lista di libri letti dai CEO delle grandi aziende americane (chissà se è vera!) da una parte ed è già passata l’estate. Ma se i libri sono validi, durano anche in autunno no? E comunque serve sempre per fare un po’ di intelligence e capire quale narrazione dominante si raccontano i potenti della Terra
Money quote: “So what books will corporate leaders be reading in the coming months? Here are recommendations from more than a dozen, including McKinsey’s Dominic Barton, JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, and Corning’s Wendell Weeks. It’s an eclectic list of fiction and nonfiction, spanning everything from classics to newcomers, business topics to biographies and folk tales.”
https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/leadership/what-ceos-are-reading
Money quote: “So what books will corporate leaders be reading in the coming months? Here are recommendations from more than a dozen, including McKinsey’s Dominic Barton, JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, and Corning’s Wendell Weeks. It’s an eclectic list of fiction and nonfiction, spanning everything from classics to newcomers, business topics to biographies and folk tales.”
https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/leadership/what-ceos-are-reading
McKinsey & Company
What CEOs are reading
Leaders of some of the world’s biggest organizations reveal which books will keep them occupied in the coming months.
Apple ha presentato iPhone 7 (nelle due versioni normale e Plus) pochi giorni fa. Venerdì sarà disponibile in commercio. Questa volta lo spot di lancio che l’azienda ha preparato è molto diverso da quelli classici a cui siamo abituati parlando di Apple. Niente voce narrante, niente musica incalzante, niente dominanza di colori chiari e solari. Invece, una sorpresa...
https://youtu.be/8VrWhr7Qxec
https://youtu.be/8VrWhr7Qxec
YouTube
iPhone 7
New cameras. Water-resistant. Stereo speakers. Longer battery life. This is 7. Learn more at www.apple.com/iphone-7/
Per chi fosse curioso, i dati di quotidiani, settimanali e mensili a luglio. Un cimitero di segni meno anno su anno.
https://www.primaonline.it/2016/09/12/243767/i-trend-delle-principali-testate-nelle-infografiche-di-primaonline-con-le-classifiche-di-quotidiani-e-settimanali-a-luglio-e-mensili-a-giugno/#.V9aqQOyg0Xc.twitter
https://www.primaonline.it/2016/09/12/243767/i-trend-delle-principali-testate-nelle-infografiche-di-primaonline-con-le-classifiche-di-quotidiani-e-settimanali-a-luglio-e-mensili-a-giugno/#.V9aqQOyg0Xc.twitter
www.primaonline.it
I trend delle principali testate nelle INFOGRAFICHE di Primaonline, con le classifiche di quotidiani e settimanali a luglio e mensili…
I dati Ads – elaborati per Primaonline.it – del mese di luglio 2016 per le testate a periodicità quotidiana e settimanale e di giugno 2016 per le testate a periodicità mensile.
Cosa fanno gli studenti in classe? La stessa cosa che fanno in autobus o metropolitana: si connettono. E averli “presenti” per tutto il tempo della lezione è praticamente impossibile. Ma è davvero un male?
Money quote: “Even when my students stash their cellphones, my classes look like an Apple commercial – faces hide behind screens embossed with the same famous fruit. I have no delusions that they’re taking notes for class or referencing that day’s reading. A University of Waterloo professor who put a postgraduate at the back of his lecture hall to observe his students learned that 85 per cent of them did something unrelated to class on their laptops; a Cornell University study confirms that most students engage in ‘high-tech “doodling”’ and communication during class. One might think that the whopping $65,000 cost of attending Boston University for a year would provide ample reason to maintain focus during class, but one would be wrong.”
https://aeon.co/essays/can-students-who-are-constantly-on-their-devices-actually-learn
Money quote: “Even when my students stash their cellphones, my classes look like an Apple commercial – faces hide behind screens embossed with the same famous fruit. I have no delusions that they’re taking notes for class or referencing that day’s reading. A University of Waterloo professor who put a postgraduate at the back of his lecture hall to observe his students learned that 85 per cent of them did something unrelated to class on their laptops; a Cornell University study confirms that most students engage in ‘high-tech “doodling”’ and communication during class. One might think that the whopping $65,000 cost of attending Boston University for a year would provide ample reason to maintain focus during class, but one would be wrong.”
https://aeon.co/essays/can-students-who-are-constantly-on-their-devices-actually-learn
Aeon
And their eyes glazed over
My college students are never entirely present in class, addicted to texts and tech. Is there any hope left for learning?
Apple, con il lancio dell’iPhone 7, ha aggiunto un “aggeggio”, un “dongle” alla sua serie di adattatori hardware attualmente in commercio: il connettore per agganciare le cuffie audio tradizionali ai nuovi telefoni tramite la presa Lightning; è il più economico di tutti: costa solo 9 euro come ricambio se si perde quello incluso nella scatola del telefono.
Adesso dunque gli adattatori di Apple sono diventati 26. Il sito 17 Orbits li ha mappati tutti. È una singolare Apple “in minore”, che offre strumenti per riuscire a fare ancora cose che i suoi apparecchi non consentono più di fare.
Money quote: “Here are all of the currently available Apple-branded adapters with their descriptive links”
https://17orbits.com/2016/09/05/apple-all-25-of-the-apples-dongles-in-one-place/
Adesso dunque gli adattatori di Apple sono diventati 26. Il sito 17 Orbits li ha mappati tutti. È una singolare Apple “in minore”, che offre strumenti per riuscire a fare ancora cose che i suoi apparecchi non consentono più di fare.
Money quote: “Here are all of the currently available Apple-branded adapters with their descriptive links”
https://17orbits.com/2016/09/05/apple-all-25-of-the-apples-dongles-in-one-place/
⓱orbits
⓱apple – All 25 [er, 26] of Apple’s Dongles in One Place [Updated]
Update: here is the Mysterious Dongle #26 just announced by Apple. It’s included in the box with the purchase of a new iPhone 7. But you’ll lose that one so get a spare one for just $9 …
Gli animali sono vivi. Ma hanno anche un'anima?
Money quote: "None of this will come as a surprise to pet owners or anyone who has observed virtually any kind of animal for any length of time. Science is rediscovering what Charles Darwin, in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) concluded: that the variations between humans and other species in their capacity to feel and express emotion are differences in degree rather than in kind. It’s a short step from there to recognition that individual animals have personalities, and to reckon that not only do they live – they have lives."
https://aeon.co/ideas/do-only-humans-have-souls-or-do-animals-have-them-too
Money quote: "None of this will come as a surprise to pet owners or anyone who has observed virtually any kind of animal for any length of time. Science is rediscovering what Charles Darwin, in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) concluded: that the variations between humans and other species in their capacity to feel and express emotion are differences in degree rather than in kind. It’s a short step from there to recognition that individual animals have personalities, and to reckon that not only do they live – they have lives."
https://aeon.co/ideas/do-only-humans-have-souls-or-do-animals-have-them-too
Aeon
Do only humans have souls, or do animals possess them too?
Scientists are increasingly showing that animals have as much capacity as humans, if not more, to feel complex emotions
Bruce Lee è sempre più una figura singolare. Laureato in filosofia, attento a fondere est con ovest, aveva anche scritto un po' di cose su allenamento, presenza, etica, consapevolezza. Ma qua te se ne scoprono?
Money quote: "A philosophy major in college, he fused ancient ideas with his own singular ethos informed by the intersection of physical and psychological discipline, the most famous manifestation of which is his water metaphor for resilience."
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/01/bruce-lee-notebook/
Money quote: "A philosophy major in college, he fused ancient ideas with his own singular ethos informed by the intersection of physical and psychological discipline, the most famous manifestation of which is his water metaphor for resilience."
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/01/bruce-lee-notebook/
The Marginalian
Bruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
Forwarded from EverywhereCommerce - il futuro dell'ecommerce
in realtà le perdite operative sono quasi 9 milioni di euro, ma i giornalisti non leggono bilanci
https://www.mark-up.it/banzai-ricavi-in-crescita-nel-primo-semestre-2016/
https://www.mark-up.it/banzai-ricavi-in-crescita-nel-primo-semestre-2016/
Mark Up
Banzai: ricavi in crescita nel primo semestre 2016 | Mark Up
Dopo la vendita della Banzai Media Holding (vertical content) a Mondadori, la piattaforma italiana tiene il focus sull’eCommerce.
Che bello quando gli americani riscoprono il Rinascimento fiorentino. Sono bei momenti. Accade ciclicamente, con mia grande soddisfazione (dopotutto, sono di Firenze) e tutte le volte è come se fosse la prima
Money quote: "Mentors matter. In today’s culture, we tend to value youth over experience and have little patience for old-fashioned learning models. Ambitious young entrepreneurs want to tear down the corner office, not take lessons from the people in it. However, the experience of innovators in Renaissance Florence suggests this is a mistake. Some of the greatest names in art and literature willingly paid their dues, studying their craft at the feet of the masters"
https://hbr.org/2016/01/renaissance-florence-was-a-better-model-for-innovation-than-silicon-valley-is
Money quote: "Mentors matter. In today’s culture, we tend to value youth over experience and have little patience for old-fashioned learning models. Ambitious young entrepreneurs want to tear down the corner office, not take lessons from the people in it. However, the experience of innovators in Renaissance Florence suggests this is a mistake. Some of the greatest names in art and literature willingly paid their dues, studying their craft at the feet of the masters"
https://hbr.org/2016/01/renaissance-florence-was-a-better-model-for-innovation-than-silicon-valley-is
Harvard Business Review
Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation than Silicon Valley Is
Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Black Death.
Come si fa a diventare CEO (cioé amministratore delegato) di un'azienda? Semplice: basta seguire alcune semplici regole. Oppure no, complicato, le regole sono fatte per essere violate. E tutto quello che c'è nel mezzo.
In realtà, ragiona il NYTimes, ci sono più strade, diverse ma alcune molto veloci. Interessante per chi vuole fare carriera.
Money quote: "To get a job as a top executive, new evidence shows, it helps greatly to have experience in as many of a business’s functional areas as possible. A person who burrows down for years in, say, the finance department stands less of a chance of reaching a top executive job than a corporate finance specialist who has also spent time in, say, marketing. Or engineering. Or both of those, plus others"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/upshot/how-to-become-a-ceo-the-quickest-path-is-a-winding-one.html
In realtà, ragiona il NYTimes, ci sono più strade, diverse ma alcune molto veloci. Interessante per chi vuole fare carriera.
Money quote: "To get a job as a top executive, new evidence shows, it helps greatly to have experience in as many of a business’s functional areas as possible. A person who burrows down for years in, say, the finance department stands less of a chance of reaching a top executive job than a corporate finance specialist who has also spent time in, say, marketing. Or engineering. Or both of those, plus others"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/upshot/how-to-become-a-ceo-the-quickest-path-is-a-winding-one.html
NY Times
How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One (Published 2016)
New evidence shows that a mix of skills, especially technology skills, counts more than simply long experience in one specialty.
The Verge ha comparato la macchina fotografica dell'iPhone 7 Plus con quella del primo iPhone: un mondo di differenza
Money quote: "not so long ago when we were beyond excited just to be able to have a camera always waiting in our pockets. The fact that those pictures looked as though they'd been shot through an old sock before being dipped in cold tea? We cared not a jot."
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2016/9/14/12917512/original-iphone-camera-vs-iphone-7-photo-comparison
Money quote: "not so long ago when we were beyond excited just to be able to have a camera always waiting in our pockets. The fact that those pictures looked as though they'd been shot through an old sock before being dipped in cold tea? We cared not a jot."
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2016/9/14/12917512/original-iphone-camera-vs-iphone-7-photo-comparison
The Verge
The iPhone 7 Plus vs. the original iPhone: a camera showdown
Back in June of 2013, I published my first piece on The Verge. Titled "Post Processing, why the smartphone camera changed photography forever," I argued that the launch of the iPhone in 2007 made...
Esperimenti sui topi
Money quote: "This is a far cry from a wild mouse's life—no cats, no traps, no long winters. It's even better than your average lab mouse's, which is constantly interrupted by white-coated humans with scalpels or syringes. The residents of Universe 25 were mostly left alone, save for one man who would peer at them from above, and his team of similarly interested assistants. They must have thought they were the luckiest mice in the world. They couldn't have known the truth: that within a few years, they and their descendants would all be dead."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh
Money quote: "This is a far cry from a wild mouse's life—no cats, no traps, no long winters. It's even better than your average lab mouse's, which is constantly interrupted by white-coated humans with scalpels or syringes. The residents of Universe 25 were mostly left alone, save for one man who would peer at them from above, and his team of similarly interested assistants. They must have thought they were the luckiest mice in the world. They couldn't have known the truth: that within a few years, they and their descendants would all be dead."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh
Atlas Obscura
The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’
Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the '60s and '70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
Dieci consigli su come diventare scrittori. Dall'ovvio "scrivi!" Al meno ovvio "vivi al di sotto dei tuoi mezzi e fa che i mezzi siano frugali". Perché poi quando scrivi non lo fai per avere successo, no?
Money quote: "If you’re not passionate about writing and about the world and the things in it you’re writing about, then why are you writing? It starts with passion even before it starts with words."
https://lithub.com/how-to-be-a-writer-10-tips-from-rebecca-solnit/
Money quote: "If you’re not passionate about writing and about the world and the things in it you’re writing about, then why are you writing? It starts with passion even before it starts with words."
https://lithub.com/how-to-be-a-writer-10-tips-from-rebecca-solnit/
Literary Hub
How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips from Rebecca Solnit
1) Write. There is no substitute. Write what you most passionately want to write, not blogs, posts, tweets or all the disposable bubblewrap in which modern life is cushioned. But start small: write…
È arrivata la tastiera italiana di iPad Pro da 12,4 e 9,7 pollici. Il mio articolo per Macitynet
https://www.macitynet.it/la-tastiera-italiana-ipad-pro-124-97-pollici/
https://www.macitynet.it/la-tastiera-italiana-ipad-pro-124-97-pollici/
Macitynet.it
Ecco la tastiera italiana di iPad Pro da 12,4 e 9,7 pollici
La tastiera di Apple per iPad pro, nelle varianti per il gigante da 12,4 e nel "normale" da 9,7 pollici, è un ottimo strumento di scrittura. La sua filosof
Per tutti quelli che hanno un Apple Watch e in questi giorni stanno cambiando il loro iPhone con un nuovo modello. Ecco come fare a Trasferire l'Apple Watch a un nuovo iPhone
https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT205189
https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT205189
Apple Support
Utilizzare l'Apple Watch con un nuovo iPhone
Se acquisti un nuovo iPhone, puoi trasferire il tuo Apple Watch dal vecchio iPhone a quello nuovo.