suggested reads for December 5, 2021

• The Cost of Context Switching (and How To Avoid It)
• The iPhone experience told by the accessories in the box — “The history of iPhone accessories tells us a lot about the iPhone user experience. Now, the iPhone 13 comes with just one cable in the box.”
• Facebook publishes slides on how Instagram affects teen mental health
• New study reveals iPhones aren’t as private as you think — Android phones collect more data by volume, but iPhones collect more types of data, a study finds;

suggested reads for November 7, 2021

• How Friendships Change in Adulthood
• 1000 dreams – 1000 Dreams seeks to change prevailing refugee narratives through a storytelling project that tells the stories of 1000 refugees across Europe. 1000 Dreams is entirely authored by storytellers with a refugee background.
• Il “collasso del contesto” sui social – ‘Why do innocuous opinions shared initially with a small, complicit audience often provoke disproportionate and polarizing reactions on platforms?’ … use a translator to get the most out of this Italian post;
• EU Prize for Women Innovators 2020

suggested reads for October 10, 2021

• 20 ideas for better data visualization
• How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine – Shopify’s Director of Production Engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things;
• The CEO with an Empty Calendar – How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings;
• Machine Learning’s crumbling foundations – Cory Doctorow on ML current development status;
• The Ideology of Human Supremacy — “The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces. Underlying this devastation is the ideology of human supremacy—claiming innate superiority over nonhuman forms of life. But is human supremacy innate to humanity, or rather something specific pertaining to our dominant culture?”

suggested reads for October 3, 2021

• Coexisting with the Coronavirus — "COVID-19 is likely to become an endemic disease. How will our immune systems resist it?” … a bit long, but really interesting!
• The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself When Building Your Brand — nothing really new here, but interesting despite all;
• iOS 15 Privacy Guide: Private Relay, Hide My Email, Mail Privacy Protection, App Reports and More – MacRumors lists all the news into the lastest mobile operating system by Apple;
• WordPress Block Patterns. What they are and where to find them
• Walking as a Productivity System — How walks create the foundation of Craig Mod’s creative work;

a little walk outside

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suggested reads for September 26, 2021

• A Beginner’s Guide to Miles Davis
• What happened when I stopped using Emojis
• The 7 types of rest that every person needs

… and if you want to try, these are two posts in Italian on topics that matters to me that you can try to enjoy with a translating app/service:

1. Un altro genere di mobilità — Reflections on how men and women move differently are leading several European cities to rethink aspects of their urban planning;
2. L’identità di genere spiegata a chi pensa di non averne una – Gender identity explained to those who think they don’t have one;

questions and (wrong) answers

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

It’s OK to feel overwhelmed. Here’s what to do next.

“You would have to be either a sociopath or totally enlightened not to be feeling anxiety at a moment like this. So I would say that the first thing that I would want to encourage everybody to do is to give themselves a measure of mercy and compassion for the difficult emotions that you’re feeling right now

…

The paradox is that we’re also the most capable, resourceful and resilient species that has ever lived on earth. So history has shown that when change comes to humanity — either on the global level, like it’s happening now, or on the personal level — we’re really good at it. We’re really good at adaptation. And I think that if we can remember that, it can help to actually mitigate the fear.”

Elizabeth Gilbert