"Si dovrebbe pensare più a fare bene che a star bene: e così si finirebbe anche a star meglio".
(I promessi sposi)
Il 22 maggio 1873 moriva Alessandro Manzoni, uno dei giganti della letteratura italiana.
Casper Ruud after losing to Sinner in the Rome final
“I wanted to say to the Italian tennis federation you are doing an incredible job. With what Jannik is doing and also after Jannik, you have 6, 7, 8 unbelievable players who are taking tennis by storm. I know that in football it’s a different story at the moment. Sorry. When you’re losing to Norway we have to be able to make a bit of jokes”
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Jannik Sinner can do it all. 6 consecutive titles, a career Golden Masters, and a new record set on home soil. This isn't just history — it's his story in the making.
If Anthropic has a trillion dollar valuation while Google has a $4.5 trillion valuation, there are only two conclusions to be drawn
Either Anthropic is incredibly overpriced or Google is incredibly underpriced. The trick is to figure out which one is right
Let me explain exactly why Apple ships the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom, because no one seems to get it.
This is not an oversight. Apple has shipped this exact design since 2015. They updated the mouse in October 2024 to USB-C and kept the port on the bottom anyway. They actively block the mouse from working when it receives power, which kills every third-party case that tries to move the port to the side. Apple watcher John Gruber has said Apple designers tried front-port versions and rejected all of them because every one looked worse.
Ten years of memes. A decade of competitor mockery. An entire cottage industry of accessory makers trying to fix this. Apple held the line on every single attempt.
The reason is the entire Apple thesis. Every other hardware company asks "is it usable?" Apple asks "is anything visible that I wouldn't put on a museum shelf?" When usability and visibility collide, they hide the usability. iMac power button on the back since 1998. Headphone jack deleted in 2016. Every port stripped from the MacBook Pro for five years before they admitted defeat. Touch Bar replaced function keys for a cleaner look and died after five years.
The Magic Mouse is the purest version of the discipline. The cost is a few minutes of charging downtime every couple of months. The benefit is the mouse looks beautiful 100% of the time it is in your hand. Apple ran that trade in 2015 and has refused every chance to renegotiate it.
Run the math on what this aesthetic discipline buys them. Apple sells a $99 mouse that has to be flipped on its back to charge. Logitech sells better mice for $40 with the port in the right place. Apple is worth $4.3 trillion. Logitech is worth $15 billion. A 280x gap on the same category of product.
The trade was never even close.
Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant.
- No VC funding.
- No viral launch.
- No TED talk.
- Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve.
He built a language that fit in kilobytes.
50 years later, it runs everything.
Linux kernel. Windows. macOS.
Every iPhone. Every Android.
NASA’s deep space probes.
The International Space Station.
> Python borrowed from it.
> Java borrowed from it.
> JavaScript borrowed from it.
If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow.
He died in 2011.
The same week as Steve Jobs.
Jobs got the front pages.
Ritchie got silence.
This Legend deserves to be celebrated.
This is all true. Link below to read why we tried to create a new API in Windows 8 and why just porting to ARM doesn't work if the old APIs still work the same way if we want battery life + always connected + security + fatless + quality over time, etc.
https://t.co/j8fd5A6hRQ
Asha Sharma has never shipped a game. 70 days into the Xbox CEO job she's made the best moves Microsoft has made on the platform in 10 years.
The skepticism in February was loud. Her resume read Meta Messenger → Instacart COO → Microsoft CoreAI. Phil Spencer had run Xbox for 12 years and been at Microsoft for 38. Asha came in with two years of company tenure and zero hours of console operating experience.
The list:
- Killed Xbox Copilot. The exact product she championed at CoreAI 18 months earlier. Wound down on mobile, dead on console.
- Killed "This is an Xbox," the cross-platform ad that put the Xbox logo on Samsung TVs and turned the brand into a punchline.
- Renamed Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox. "Return of Xbox" went up on the office walls.
- Cut Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99. PC Game Pass from $16.49 to $13.99. First cut after years of hikes.
- Pulled day-one Call of Duty out of Game Pass. New CoD now joins the service 12 months after launch instead.
- Announced Project Helix, the next-gen console codename. Dev kits ship next year.
- Revived Xbox FanFest after the prior regime quietly retired it.
- Promoted Xbox veterans Jason Ronald and Jason Beaumont into platform leadership while bringing CoreAI talent in alongside them.
The pattern is the story. She is reversing the last decade of Xbox strategy item by item. Brand dilution, price hikes, day-one Game Pass economics, AI bolted onto the console. All getting walked back inside her first quarter.
The non-gaming background is the unlock. A 25-year Xbox lifer would have rationalized "This is an Xbox" as a strategic pivot, defended Game Pass pricing as a margin necessity, kept Copilot in the roadmap because Satya wants AI everywhere. Asha had no sunk cost in any of it. She killed her own work at CoreAI first to prove the rule applied to everyone.
Phil added for 12 years. Asha subtracted in 70 days.
The non-gamer was the only one who could see what needed to die.