Ma poi, non so se ve lo siete mai chiesto: perché gli Stati Uniti, che sono uno dei paesi più ricchi al mondo, non hanno un servizio sanitario pubblico degno di questo nome che offra assistenza universale come accade, ad esempio, in Italia? Le cose ovviamente sono parecchio complicate e la storia è paradossale. I motivi sono diversi da quelli che potreste immaginare.
Money quote: “It wasn’t one moment, says Karen Palmer, professor of health science at Simon Fraser University, but rather, “a series of decisions, turning points, and cascading events.” Though until World War I there had been some attempts by socially liberal governments to follow the examples of Germany and others, they were met with opposition from doctors, insurance companies, businesses, and even some conservative labor organizations, which considered state-sponsored health care paternalistic and unnecessary. Labor unions also worried that it would weaken their own bargaining power, says Palmer, as they were otherwise responsible for getting their members social services.
But the root of the current system, Palmer says, can be found in World War II. In 1943 president Franklin D. Roosevelt imposed an effective freeze on labor wages, and companies started offering health and pension benefits as a way to retain workers instead. This was the beginning of employer-sponsored healthcare, though there was no government mandate to offer it (except in Hawaii). Unions began negotiating the benefits as part of what they could obtain for workers. The rest of the population wasn’t covered, but it meant the unions didn’t put pressure on the government to create a public health system.”
https://qz.com/1022831/why-doesnt-the-united-states-have-universal-health-care/
Money quote: “It wasn’t one moment, says Karen Palmer, professor of health science at Simon Fraser University, but rather, “a series of decisions, turning points, and cascading events.” Though until World War I there had been some attempts by socially liberal governments to follow the examples of Germany and others, they were met with opposition from doctors, insurance companies, businesses, and even some conservative labor organizations, which considered state-sponsored health care paternalistic and unnecessary. Labor unions also worried that it would weaken their own bargaining power, says Palmer, as they were otherwise responsible for getting their members social services.
But the root of the current system, Palmer says, can be found in World War II. In 1943 president Franklin D. Roosevelt imposed an effective freeze on labor wages, and companies started offering health and pension benefits as a way to retain workers instead. This was the beginning of employer-sponsored healthcare, though there was no government mandate to offer it (except in Hawaii). Unions began negotiating the benefits as part of what they could obtain for workers. The rest of the population wasn’t covered, but it meant the unions didn’t put pressure on the government to create a public health system.”
https://qz.com/1022831/why-doesnt-the-united-states-have-universal-health-care/
Quartz
A history of why the US is the only rich country without universal health care
How the health-care industry scared Americans off "socialized medicine."
Cloni (o nuove versioni aumentate) open source di giochi relativamente noti. Attenzione: sono proprio tanti.
Money quote: "Since all these projects are open-source you can help them and make this world a better place. Or at least you can play something to appreciate the effort people put in them."
http://osgameclones.com
Money quote: "Since all these projects are open-source you can help them and make this world a better place. Or at least you can play something to appreciate the effort people put in them."
http://osgameclones.com
Dolci storie di cuccioli di orso polare
Money quote: “She was the size of a squirrel, deaf and blind. Translucent fur barely covered her pink skin. Soft paws paddled against the straw, and her nose led her in one direction: toward her mother.”
http://projects.oregonlive.com/projectnora/1-3/
Money quote: “She was the size of a squirrel, deaf and blind. Translucent fur barely covered her pink skin. Soft paws paddled against the straw, and her nose led her in one direction: toward her mother.”
http://projects.oregonlive.com/projectnora/1-3/
Oregonlive
THE LONELIEST POLAR BEAR
Get ready to fall in love with Nora the polar bear. She has overcome incredible odds. #projectnora
David Hume e Adam Smith sono due filosofi e pensatori che più hanno influenzato il nostro tempo, alla base del pensiero economico e sociale moderno. Hume in particolare è stato anche un ateo imperterrito, sino alla fine.
Money quote: “As the Scottish philosopher David Hume lay on his deathbed in the summer of 1776, his passing became a highly anticipated event. Few people in 18th-century Britain were as forthright in their lack of religious faith as Hume was, and his skepticism had earned him a lifetime of abuse and reproach from the pious, including a concerted effort to excommunicate him from the Church of Scotland. Now everyone wanted to know how the notorious infidel would face his end. Would he show remorse or perhaps even recant his skepticism? Would he die in a state of distress, having none of the usual consolations afforded by belief in an afterlife? In the event, Hume died as he had lived, with remarkable good humour and without religion”
philosopher and infidel | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/he-died-as-he-lived-david-hume-philosopher-and-infidel
Money quote: “As the Scottish philosopher David Hume lay on his deathbed in the summer of 1776, his passing became a highly anticipated event. Few people in 18th-century Britain were as forthright in their lack of religious faith as Hume was, and his skepticism had earned him a lifetime of abuse and reproach from the pious, including a concerted effort to excommunicate him from the Church of Scotland. Now everyone wanted to know how the notorious infidel would face his end. Would he show remorse or perhaps even recant his skepticism? Would he die in a state of distress, having none of the usual consolations afforded by belief in an afterlife? In the event, Hume died as he had lived, with remarkable good humour and without religion”
philosopher and infidel | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/he-died-as-he-lived-david-hume-philosopher-and-infidel
Aeon
He died as he lived: David Hume, philosopher and infidel
How does an infidel face his end? The philosopher David Hume died as he lived – with good humour and without religion
Intel Nervana, i primi processori per reti neurali e AI arrivano entro fine anno - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/primi-processori-nervana-neural-network-attesi-la-fine-dellanno/
https://www.macitynet.it/primi-processori-nervana-neural-network-attesi-la-fine-dellanno/
Macitynet.it
Intel Nervana, i primi processori per reti neurali e AI arrivano entro fine anno - Macitynet.it
Il colosso di Santa Clara sta finalizzando i processori Intel Nervana Neural Network le prime CPU dedicate all’intelligenza artificiale. Obiettivo: conquistare il mercato del machine learning
Una idea che secondo me (e non solo secondo me) sarebbe esportabile anche in altri ambiti: il blocco degli appunti (diciamo anche: il diario di bordo personale) del software engineering
Money quote: "To deal with the newbie developer info-flood, I went back to the concept of a ‘software engineering lab notebook’. At first, I jotted down commands needed to setup proper compilation flags for the dev environment and how to run the build locally to debug errors. A bit later, I started jotting down diagrams of the internals of the systems I was working on and summaries of code snippets that I had found particularly thorny to understand. Sometimes these notes proved indispensable in under-stress debug scenarios when I needed to quickly revisit what was happening in a particular area of the codebase without the luxury of a long debug."
http://winterflower.github.io/2017/08/17/software-engineering-notebook/
Money quote: "To deal with the newbie developer info-flood, I went back to the concept of a ‘software engineering lab notebook’. At first, I jotted down commands needed to setup proper compilation flags for the dev environment and how to run the build locally to debug errors. A bit later, I started jotting down diagrams of the internals of the systems I was working on and summaries of code snippets that I had found particularly thorny to understand. Sometimes these notes proved indispensable in under-stress debug scenarios when I needed to quickly revisit what was happening in a particular area of the codebase without the luxury of a long debug."
http://winterflower.github.io/2017/08/17/software-engineering-notebook/
Parlare male, perché la lingua nella quale ci stiamo esprimendo è una seconda lingua acquisita più avanti nel corso della nostra vita, ha più vantaggi di quello che non sembra. Primo fra tutti, la possibilità di avere un trattamento di favore da parte di chi è invece nativo.
Money quote: “Thus it might come as a surprise that, in 1980, Henry Kissinger (the former US secretary of state and a non-native English speaker, originally from Germany) told Arianna Huffington (the Greek immigrant and entrepreneur/writer who would eventually start The Huffington Post) not to worry about [her] accent, ‘because you can never, in American public life, underestimate the advantages of complete and total incomprehensibility’.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-unexpected-benefits-of-getting-lost-in-translation
Money quote: “Thus it might come as a surprise that, in 1980, Henry Kissinger (the former US secretary of state and a non-native English speaker, originally from Germany) told Arianna Huffington (the Greek immigrant and entrepreneur/writer who would eventually start The Huffington Post) not to worry about [her] accent, ‘because you can never, in American public life, underestimate the advantages of complete and total incomprehensibility’.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-unexpected-benefits-of-getting-lost-in-translation
Aeon
The unexpected benefits of getting lost in translation
About 20 per cent of the United States population (60 million out of 300 million people) are non-native speakers of English. Speaking multiple languages has advantages – for example, you get to talk to people from different cultures. But being a n...
L’approccio quantitativo supportato da tecnologie che consentono quello che viene definito il “quantified self movement”, ha un grosso problema: uccide la possibilità di pensiero profondo, e ogni approccio puramente qualitativo.
Money quote: “The stringent requirement for measurement limits learning in two ways: first, tasks are tightly structured and centred on closed problems with definite solutions. These tasks tease out only a sliver of students’ thinking skills. Second, detours are rarely permitted on the learning journey. Students have scarce opportunity to explore new terrain — say, more open-ended problems — because this form of learning is not so easily measured”
https://hackernoon.com/the-quantified-self-movement-may-sound-the-death-knell-of-deep-thinking-c771be8dc30f
Money quote: “The stringent requirement for measurement limits learning in two ways: first, tasks are tightly structured and centred on closed problems with definite solutions. These tasks tease out only a sliver of students’ thinking skills. Second, detours are rarely permitted on the learning journey. Students have scarce opportunity to explore new terrain — say, more open-ended problems — because this form of learning is not so easily measured”
https://hackernoon.com/the-quantified-self-movement-may-sound-the-death-knell-of-deep-thinking-c771be8dc30f
Hacker Noon
The quantified self movement may sound the death knell for deep thinking
Creating the time and space for rich learning experiences
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Il New York Times ha utilizzato tecniche forensi per raccogliere tutti i video girati al momento della sparatoria al Mandalay Bay a Los Angeles, sincronizzando i rumori degli spari tra un video amatoriale e l’altro e quelli girati dalla polizia. Alla fine ha confezionato uno spettacolare e inquietante documento di 10 minuti che ricostruisce secondo per secondo gli avvenimenti di quella sera.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/1931805993703580/
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Siamo in un periodo di profonda crisi che, secondo alcuni, è una crisi sistemica. Parte del problema è l'incapacità di produrre anticorpi e di governare il cambiamento, di evolvere. La crisi sistemica del capitalismo è legata anche alla sua incapacità di essere autoriflessivo. L'animale, dopotutto, è cieco...
Money quote: "Je ne peux pas croire que l’existence d’une autre possibilité, d’une autre stratégie, puisse être incarnée par un mouvement électoral. Le parlementarisme est la formule politique ajustée à la domination capitaliste, et rien d’autre"
http://www.investigaction.net/fr/entretien-avec-alain-badiou-22-democratie-et-medias/
Money quote: "Je ne peux pas croire que l’existence d’une autre possibilité, d’une autre stratégie, puisse être incarnée par un mouvement électoral. Le parlementarisme est la formule politique ajustée à la domination capitaliste, et rien d’autre"
http://www.investigaction.net/fr/entretien-avec-alain-badiou-22-democratie-et-medias/
www.investigaction.net
Entretien avec Alain Badiou 2/2 : Démocratie et médias
Le monde va mal. La nouvelle crise systémique du capitalisme prédateur s’est désormais muée en une crise de civilisation qui nous mène droit dans le mur. Les alternatives progressistes tardent…
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Sapevate che finalmente, dopo 12 anni, è uscita una nuova edizione integrale di Ghost In The Shell, il manga cult di Masamune Shirow?
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/10/ghost-in-the-shell-integrale-star-comics/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/10/ghost-in-the-shell-integrale-star-comics/
Fumettologica
La nuova edizione integrale di "Ghost in the Shell"
Edizioni Star Comics riedita in una nuova edizione integrale Ghost in the Shell, il manga cult di fantascienza di Masamune Shirow.
Il mito delle tartarughe che reggono il mondo (letteralmente) è molto antico e diffuso ovunque. Ne parlano in tutte le culture primitive ed è entrato a pieno titolo anche nella modernità (avete presente Discworld di Terry Pratchett?). Quali sono le ragioni e la storia di questo mito?
Considero questo tipo di letture un balsamo dopo la raffica di ovvietà sparate quotidianamente dai media, compresa quella di ieri e oggi su Anna Frank: insopportabile.
Money quote: "In a 1974 issue of the anthropological journal Man, the scholar Jay Miller provides some thoughts on what makes the turtle such a popular world bearer, writing, “I viewed the turtle as a logical choice for such an atlantean because its shape and appearance were suited to this role.” But he goes on to write, specifically of the Lenape belief in a world turtle, that the creature also mirrored aspects that they valued in their culture, such as perseverance and longevity. And that idea doesn’t just apply to the cosmic turtle in Lenape culture. “With intensive research, the above analysis should also apply for other societies that place the earth on the back of a turtle.” Most turtles and tortoises are also famously long-lived, giving them a wise, ancient quality that lends itself to mythologizing."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/world-turtle-cosmic-discworld
Considero questo tipo di letture un balsamo dopo la raffica di ovvietà sparate quotidianamente dai media, compresa quella di ieri e oggi su Anna Frank: insopportabile.
Money quote: "In a 1974 issue of the anthropological journal Man, the scholar Jay Miller provides some thoughts on what makes the turtle such a popular world bearer, writing, “I viewed the turtle as a logical choice for such an atlantean because its shape and appearance were suited to this role.” But he goes on to write, specifically of the Lenape belief in a world turtle, that the creature also mirrored aspects that they valued in their culture, such as perseverance and longevity. And that idea doesn’t just apply to the cosmic turtle in Lenape culture. “With intensive research, the above analysis should also apply for other societies that place the earth on the back of a turtle.” Most turtles and tortoises are also famously long-lived, giving them a wise, ancient quality that lends itself to mythologizing."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/world-turtle-cosmic-discworld
Atlas Obscura
Why Is the World Always on the Back of a Turtle?
It's mythology all the way down.
Storie di chi produce gli iPhone nelle fabbriche cinesi di Foxconn
Money quote: "We could keep going, but to our left, we see what look like large housing complexes, probably the dormitories, complete with cagelike fences built out over the roof and the windows, and so we head in that direction. The closer we get to the dorms, the thicker the crowds get and the more lanyards and black glasses and faded jeans and sneakers we see. College-age kids are gathered, smoking cigarettes, crowded around picnic tables, sitting on kerbs."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract
Money quote: "We could keep going, but to our left, we see what look like large housing complexes, probably the dormitories, complete with cagelike fences built out over the roof and the windows, and so we head in that direction. The closer we get to the dorms, the thicker the crowds get and the more lanyards and black glasses and faded jeans and sneakers we see. College-age kids are gathered, smoking cigarettes, crowded around picnic tables, sitting on kerbs."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract
the Guardian
Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city
In an extract from his new book, Brian Merchant reveals how he gained access to Longhua, the vast complex where iPhones are made and where, in 2010, unhappy workers started killing themselves
Se volete giocare con i circuiti, cioè con la logica booleana (una delle pietre angolari sulle quali è fondata tutta l'informatica), qui c'è il lavoro di alcuni studenti olandesi che è veramente di livello. Adatto per tutte le età.
Money quote: "BOOLR is a digital logic simulator. We are three Dutch high school students in our final year and we are doing a project about digital logic. To make our own digital logic circuits we have built BOOLR, which we have created with JavaScript and lots of love. BOOLR works with Windows, Mac OS and Linux and it is completely free."
http://boolr.me
Money quote: "BOOLR is a digital logic simulator. We are three Dutch high school students in our final year and we are doing a project about digital logic. To make our own digital logic circuits we have built BOOLR, which we have created with JavaScript and lots of love. BOOLR works with Windows, Mac OS and Linux and it is completely free."
http://boolr.me
Stiamo entrando in una età dell’oro dell’archeologia sottomarina. Con le nuove tecnologie sul fondo del Mar Nero sta venendo fuori di tutto, in eccellenti condizioni di conservazione. Parliamo di decine di navi mercantili di età ellenistica e romana.
Money quote: “According to the press release, the wrecks survive in such good condition because at a certain depth the Black Sea has anoxic, or oxygen-free, conditions preventing decay. Many of the ships sit at the bottom of the sea with their masts upright, their rudders still at the ready and their cargo bays full of untouched goods. For maritime historians it’s a gold mine since the wrecks have artifacts that most researchers have only read about or seen drawings of.”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-fleet-ancient-ships-discovered-black-sea-180964978/?no-ist
Money quote: “According to the press release, the wrecks survive in such good condition because at a certain depth the Black Sea has anoxic, or oxygen-free, conditions preventing decay. Many of the ships sit at the bottom of the sea with their masts upright, their rudders still at the ready and their cargo bays full of untouched goods. For maritime historians it’s a gold mine since the wrecks have artifacts that most researchers have only read about or seen drawings of.”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-fleet-ancient-ships-discovered-black-sea-180964978/?no-ist
Smithsonian
Exceptionally Preserved Ancient Ships Discovered in the Black Sea
Since 2015, the Maritime Archaeological Project expedition has uncovered 60 wrecks, covering 2,500 years of maritime history
Il pensiero che le blockchain non siano una cosa vera ha sfiorato la mente di molti. Ma negli ultimi mesi, direi addirittura settimane, questo pensiero sta evaporando. Ormai pensare che le blockchain siano vaporware lo pensano solo i notai italiani (e neanche tutti).
Money quote: "Google’s venture capital firm Alphabet came in as the world’s second biggest corporate investor, behind the Japanese finance giant SBI Holdings. Alphabet invested in companies such as Ripple and the trading platform LedgerX, both of which work with cryptocurrency. The American banks Citi and Goldman Sachs also ranked in the top five firms, investing in startups like Digital Asset Holdings, which has reportedly raised $110 million so far under the leadership of former JPMorgan Chase executive Blythe Masters. JPMorgan Chase invested in Masters’ startup as well, while simultaneously funding development for the open source blockchain platform Quorum."
http://www.ibtimes.com/google-citi-goldman-sachs-among-blockchains-biggest-investors-2603162
Qui uno spiegone per quelli relativamente inclinati alle tecnologie su cosa sono e come funzionano le blockchain
https://unwttng.com/what-is-a-blockchain
Money quote: "Google’s venture capital firm Alphabet came in as the world’s second biggest corporate investor, behind the Japanese finance giant SBI Holdings. Alphabet invested in companies such as Ripple and the trading platform LedgerX, both of which work with cryptocurrency. The American banks Citi and Goldman Sachs also ranked in the top five firms, investing in startups like Digital Asset Holdings, which has reportedly raised $110 million so far under the leadership of former JPMorgan Chase executive Blythe Masters. JPMorgan Chase invested in Masters’ startup as well, while simultaneously funding development for the open source blockchain platform Quorum."
http://www.ibtimes.com/google-citi-goldman-sachs-among-blockchains-biggest-investors-2603162
Qui uno spiegone per quelli relativamente inclinati alle tecnologie su cosa sono e come funzionano le blockchain
https://unwttng.com/what-is-a-blockchain
International Business Times
Google, Citi And Goldman Sachs Among Blockchain's Biggest Investors
Disruptive? Not exactly: Silicon Valley and traditional finance giants are funding much of the white-collar blockchain industry.
Amazon è come il software: si sta mangiando il mondo del retail e non solo. Ma ci sono alcune attività commerciali che sono immuni dal modello studiato da Jeff Bezos. No, non sto parlando del più antico mestiere del mondo (che peraltro non è detto sia immune). C'è anche altro...
Money quote: "As for home furnishings, Amazon’s challenge will be to overcome people’s desire to see and examine these items up close before purchasing. It’s easy to buy something like toilet paper or a book online, sight unseen. But the curtains that will hang from your living-room window—you’re probably going to want to examine those pretty closely before committing."
https://qz.com/1102505/the-businesses-amazon-is-most-likely-to-struggle-to-take-over/
Money quote: "As for home furnishings, Amazon’s challenge will be to overcome people’s desire to see and examine these items up close before purchasing. It’s easy to buy something like toilet paper or a book online, sight unseen. But the curtains that will hang from your living-room window—you’re probably going to want to examine those pretty closely before committing."
https://qz.com/1102505/the-businesses-amazon-is-most-likely-to-struggle-to-take-over/
Quartz
These are the businesses still immune to Amazon
It feels like nothing is safe.
“Arcangelo”, o il fumetto distopico (ri)scoperto da William Gibson - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/10/arcangelo-william-gibson-fumetto-recensione/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/10/arcangelo-william-gibson-fumetto-recensione/
Fumettologica
"Arcangelo", o il fumetto distopico (ri)scoperto da William Gibson
Un po' di cose su Arcangelo, il fumetto scritto da William Gibson, tra i più noti romanzieri di fantascienza contemporanei.
Ok, ne parlo ancora perché, come avrete capito, fa parte del pacchetto dei miei interessi. Tenetevela in caldo come lettura per il fine settimana.
Vedete, se da un lato non mi piace l'idea di aziende che disintegrano i propri spazi lavorativi e li trasformano in posti open dove la gente entra ed esce, portando con sé competenze che poi riversa in tutto il mondo, dall'altro mi piace l'idea di lavorare in maniera nomadica, scegliendo gli spazi dove andare.
Qui però c'è il contrasto fra azienda e dipendente/lavoratore autonomo. Il telelavoratore e il nomade digitale sono due concetti differenti. Il primo è un dipendente a tutti gli effetti, l'altro diventa soprattutto un fornitore esterno e come tale ha spese completamente differenti (niente assicurazione, niente piano pensionistico, niente garanzie). Allo stesso tempo, l'azienda con lui risparmia molto di più, perché non paga contributi e premi assicurativi, dotazioni di software e ambienti di lavoro. Inoltre, se non serve, se ne libera velocissimamente, con un risparmio sulle operazioni notevole.
Allora, cominciamo a parlare di nomadi digitali per bene, e di gente che fa questa vita per portare avanti il proprio lavoro autonomo, magari la propria micro azienda, e rimettiamo in ordine due o tre concetti.
Money quote: "The Work Hard Anywhere iOS app helps you find a great place to work, including a coffee shop with fast Wi-Fi. The startup is itself based in coffee and tea shops, including Far Leaves Tea in Berkeley, California"
https://www.fastcompany.com/3068312/the-digital-nomads-guide-to-working-from-anywhere-on-e
Non c'è solo questo, ovviamente. Ci sono imprenditori che hanno veramente viaggiato lavorando e basta, come uccelli senza le zampe, gente che non si può appoggiare mai a terra e quindi è costretta sempre a volare.
Money quote: "I propose that a nomadic lifestyle is a productive way to build a real company. I’m working hard on bootstrapping an ambitious startup, Moo.do. I’m traveling because it’s cheaper, more productive and more inspiring than sitting in one place. Traveling is the most responsible choice for the sake of my company, my finances, and my personal growth."
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/241761
E poi c'è l'altro lato, che spesso diventa l'obiettivo - ma è un fraintendimento. Il lato del viaggio per il viaggio. La vacanza per la vita. C'è chi ha trasformato la propria (giovane) vita in un viaggio in prima classe senza spendere una lira:
Money quote: "Schlappig, 25, is one of the biggest stars among an elite group of obsessive flyers whose mission is to outwit the airlines. They're self-styled competitors with a singular objective: fly for free, as much as they can, without getting caught. In the past 20 years, the Internet has drawn together this strange band of savants with an odd mix of skills: the digital talent of a code writer, a lawyer's love affair with fine print, and a passion for airline bureaucracy. It's a whirring hive mind of IT whizzes, stats majors, aviation nerds and everyone else you knew who skipped the prom."
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/ben-schlappig-airlines-fly-free-20150720
Ma è più bella l'idea della sua realtà, tanto che sia nella descrizione (a parte stappare champagne e ridere, questi giovani turchi non fanno altro) che nell'effettivo modello di relazioni ci sono evidenti vuoti di senso. Comunque, gli emuli al risparmio ci sono sempre e quindi ben vengano i suggerimenti per viaggiare in economia.
Money quote: "Sofie Couwenbergh of Wonderful Wanderings is keen to the tricks of sneaky booking sites, who store cookies on your computer. "Booking websites 'remember' what you came looking for, so when you come back to look at that hotel room/rental car/flight a second time, they'll often show you higher prices to urge you to book quickly. That's why I always search booking sites in an incognito browser window.""
http://www.wisebread.com/25-secrets-from-the-worlds-most-frugal-frequent-travelers
Vedete, se da un lato non mi piace l'idea di aziende che disintegrano i propri spazi lavorativi e li trasformano in posti open dove la gente entra ed esce, portando con sé competenze che poi riversa in tutto il mondo, dall'altro mi piace l'idea di lavorare in maniera nomadica, scegliendo gli spazi dove andare.
Qui però c'è il contrasto fra azienda e dipendente/lavoratore autonomo. Il telelavoratore e il nomade digitale sono due concetti differenti. Il primo è un dipendente a tutti gli effetti, l'altro diventa soprattutto un fornitore esterno e come tale ha spese completamente differenti (niente assicurazione, niente piano pensionistico, niente garanzie). Allo stesso tempo, l'azienda con lui risparmia molto di più, perché non paga contributi e premi assicurativi, dotazioni di software e ambienti di lavoro. Inoltre, se non serve, se ne libera velocissimamente, con un risparmio sulle operazioni notevole.
Allora, cominciamo a parlare di nomadi digitali per bene, e di gente che fa questa vita per portare avanti il proprio lavoro autonomo, magari la propria micro azienda, e rimettiamo in ordine due o tre concetti.
Money quote: "The Work Hard Anywhere iOS app helps you find a great place to work, including a coffee shop with fast Wi-Fi. The startup is itself based in coffee and tea shops, including Far Leaves Tea in Berkeley, California"
https://www.fastcompany.com/3068312/the-digital-nomads-guide-to-working-from-anywhere-on-e
Non c'è solo questo, ovviamente. Ci sono imprenditori che hanno veramente viaggiato lavorando e basta, come uccelli senza le zampe, gente che non si può appoggiare mai a terra e quindi è costretta sempre a volare.
Money quote: "I propose that a nomadic lifestyle is a productive way to build a real company. I’m working hard on bootstrapping an ambitious startup, Moo.do. I’m traveling because it’s cheaper, more productive and more inspiring than sitting in one place. Traveling is the most responsible choice for the sake of my company, my finances, and my personal growth."
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/241761
E poi c'è l'altro lato, che spesso diventa l'obiettivo - ma è un fraintendimento. Il lato del viaggio per il viaggio. La vacanza per la vita. C'è chi ha trasformato la propria (giovane) vita in un viaggio in prima classe senza spendere una lira:
Money quote: "Schlappig, 25, is one of the biggest stars among an elite group of obsessive flyers whose mission is to outwit the airlines. They're self-styled competitors with a singular objective: fly for free, as much as they can, without getting caught. In the past 20 years, the Internet has drawn together this strange band of savants with an odd mix of skills: the digital talent of a code writer, a lawyer's love affair with fine print, and a passion for airline bureaucracy. It's a whirring hive mind of IT whizzes, stats majors, aviation nerds and everyone else you knew who skipped the prom."
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/ben-schlappig-airlines-fly-free-20150720
Ma è più bella l'idea della sua realtà, tanto che sia nella descrizione (a parte stappare champagne e ridere, questi giovani turchi non fanno altro) che nell'effettivo modello di relazioni ci sono evidenti vuoti di senso. Comunque, gli emuli al risparmio ci sono sempre e quindi ben vengano i suggerimenti per viaggiare in economia.
Money quote: "Sofie Couwenbergh of Wonderful Wanderings is keen to the tricks of sneaky booking sites, who store cookies on your computer. "Booking websites 'remember' what you came looking for, so when you come back to look at that hotel room/rental car/flight a second time, they'll often show you higher prices to urge you to book quickly. That's why I always search booking sites in an incognito browser window.""
http://www.wisebread.com/25-secrets-from-the-worlds-most-frugal-frequent-travelers
Fast Company
The Digital Nomad’s Guide To Working From Anywhere On Earth
The work-anywhere, travel-the-world fringe lifestyle is going mainstream–and these apps, services, and events are here to help.
La produttività nazionale? Passa dalla cybersecurity - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/10/26/tecnologia/news/la-produttivit-nazionale-passa-dalla-cybersecurity-p0rqrbExZADvtflRj4yUEP/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/10/26/tecnologia/news/la-produttivit-nazionale-passa-dalla-cybersecurity-p0rqrbExZADvtflRj4yUEP/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
La produttività nazionale? Passa dalla cybersecurity
Proteggendo il cyberspazio si acquista la credibilità per competere e si costruiscono i servizi avanzati per i cittadini e le imprese