My daughter has gotten into the habit of trying to rate the things she does, the food she tastes, the movies she watches, or the situations she experiences. She does it for fun, it’s not an obsession. It’s a pastime that we introduced when she was eating new things that she didn’t like, and I asked her to express her judgment with a grade because all in all, it wasn’t a two as she imagined: she could even give those vegetables a six.
I often read about bloggers who, to protect their mental health, tend to completely remove news from their daily information flow. They manage to stay uninformed and escape daily life by eliminating the noise of things happening in the world. In this way, they improve their mood and approach to the day, they write.
It is a time when I’m thinking a lot about my daughter’s future. She is growing up, and among the various considerations I make, there is one—clearly the least hoped for—that at some point in her life, she will grow up without me. I’m talking about his next recent life, because as far as I’m concerned, dying is the last thing I want to do. Inevitable, but final.
In 1987, I was four years old. That year, the Swiss designer Adrian Frutiger created the Avenir typeface, which was then launched the following year. It is inspired by Futura, from which it also takes its name—avenir, in French, means future, just like futura in Latin. It is a typeface that I have always liked: simple, linear, easy to read, round and full in its hardness. In the early 2000s, Akira Kobayashi expanded the type family by creating Avenir Next.
Since I decided to learn about personal finance, think more carefully about what I buy, and invest my money wisely, I started keeping track of how much money I make and spend in my bank accounts and cards.
Feature chum is a shady business goal presented to consumers as a useful feature to a company’s product line or feature set. Feature chum always benefits the company’s objective of obtaining more power and growth, but not necessarily valuable for the end user.
I have been wearing a smartwatch for years. Today I have an Apple Watch Ultra 2, but in the past, I have had several Apple wearables. Besides the Watch, I have had various Fitbit, some Samsung Galaxy Watches, the first Moto 360 with Android Wear, and others more or less famous, more or less watches, more or less Chinese. I have tried many until, since 2021, I have had nothing but Apple devices.
I don’t have a Meta account, but I do have a WhatsApp account, which is practically mandatory in Italy. It’s a cancer that will be very difficult to eradicate. I don’t use Meta accounts by choice because I don’t use social networks, and because I care about my privacy, and because I prefer this blog to be the place where all my content resides. Things already said.