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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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A parità di ambiente di lavoro, sostiene una ricerca, essere nato ricchi aiuta e fa guadagnare e fare carriera di più. Questo in Gran Bretagna e forse anche negli Usa. In Italia non ci provano neanche a fare la ricerca

Money quote: “The result of this research is Laurison and Friedman’s new book, The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged, which shows how the customs of elite workplaces can favor those who grew up wealthier. The authors describe a series of “hidden mechanisms”—such as unwritten codes of office behavior and informal systems of professional advancement—that benefit the already affluent while disadvantaging those with working-class backgrounds.

In January, shortly before the book’s U.K. release, I interviewed Laurison, a professor at Swarthmore College, who told me that while England’s class politics do differ from those of the U.S., his and Friedman’s findings about “money, connections, and culture” broadly apply to Americans as well. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/class-ceiling-laurison-friedman-elite-jobs/582175/
La grande truffa attorno ad AirBnB

Money quote: “The building, on Greenwich Street, was part of a larger enterprise that made more than $20 million in revenue by unlawfully renting 130 Manhattan apartments to almost 76,000 guests through Airbnb, city officials said.

The plot was geared toward getting around city regulations that are intended to keep blocks of apartments from being turned into makeshift hotels that avoid lodging taxes and oversight.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/nyregion/airbnb-nyc-law.html
Letteratura o blog? Un racconto nella metro di New York. Buona domenica.

Money quote: “A young woman’s tragedy is the world asks too much of her and a young man’s tragedy is the world doesn’t ask enough. I shook my head in disgust. I am older than I think I should be”

https://humanparts.medium.com/i-love-trains-84380bc7f864
La "disruptive innovation", il concetto più difficile da tradurre in italiano, è stato creato da Clayton Christensen, studioso scomparso a 67 anni la scorsa settimana. La sua idea, che poi si è trasformata in una teoria, è uno dei motori della nostra epoca (nel bene e nel male).

Money quote: "The crux of Christensen’s theory is that big, successful companies that neglect potential customers at the lower end of their markets (mainframe computers, in his famous example) are ripe for disruption from smaller, more efficient, more nimble competitors that can do almost as good a job more cheaply (like personal computers). One need look no further than the biggest names in Silicon Valley to find evidence of successful disrupters, from Napster to Amazon to Uber to Airbnb and so on."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/24/21080578/clayton-christensen-disruptive-innovation-apple-netflix-steve-jobs
Se serve, una rappresentazione grafica online dell'andamento del Coronavirus https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Suonava la sua musica, stava facendo un concerto a un festival: si è seduto in silenzio, ha chiesto scusa, ha abbassato la testa ed era morto. Se ne è andato così, a 71 anno, sul palco, David Olney.

Money quote: "“Olney was in the middle of his third song when he stopped, apologized, and shut his eyes,” Rigby wrote on Facebook. “He was very still, sitting upright with his guitar on, wearing the coolest hat and a beautiful rust suede jacket we laughed about because it was raining like hell outside the boathouse where we were playing — I just want the picture to be as graceful and dignified as it was, because it at first looked like he was just taking a moment.”"

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/singer-david-olney-dies-during-performance-festival-1203472389/

Qui una sua interpretazione di "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" con quattro spettacolari ballerine ("Era ironico, papà?" "Si, figliolo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tijs8n-4HCA