: @leeander semiotic day today pal #
The behaviour cha(lle)nge
AKA changing (some of) my habits for a week and tracking the results. but first things first.
I’m really happy when the alarmclock is not ringing thus I’m able to wake up early enough to have a whooole day in front of me. I love to sleep, even if I was not able to wake up after 10 am, during vacation days, since I was 23.
Yesterday I had a nice lunch with the global innovation firm frog President Doreen Lorenzo (caveat: I’m Technology Director at frog Milan studio) and I was curious about her standard day: she wakes up at 4am (yes, 4, four, quattro) she dedicates one hour to emails and then two hours to physical activity; it might be a run on the street or a gym session depending on where she is. And the she goes back, has a shower and prepare for the office.
I told her I would die with such a regimen; but she definitely inspired me. Once I was a runner. But it’s now a year I haven’t run a single mile, shame on me. And the inspiration is: I can do that; I can wake up early in the morning (not at 4, at 6 am:-) ) can run for ~one hour and then prepare for my day.
And the good thing is that I’ll blog the outcomes. This will last for a week. Are you ready? I definitely am!
Forbes: innovative ideas from Florence to the web
Thanks to my friend Roberto Bonzio (of Italiani di Frontiera fame) Forbes today publishes a video interview to yours truly and my partner Leeander regarding Frontiers of Interaction (note: the innovation conference I founded and produce).
Here’s a snippet:
In this video, Matteo Penzo and Lendro Agrò, Frontiers cofounders, explain Forbes their efforts since 2005, to build this unusual format, that creates “an immersive experience featuring music, interactive and artistic installations, demo sites and keynotes”, an ideal venue “for thinkers and doers, innovators and academics, early adopters and long-term geeks”.
Learn from your errors. Even if you’re a software.
Those who know me have learnt how I like errors. Well not the error itself, but the new knowledge that failures generate (I’ve wrote about this here).
And, among all the fantastic speakers that showed up at Frontiers of Interaction 2011, the one I really felt as touching my inner cords was Zdenek Kalal: a researcher, he recently left EPFL to create his own start-up based on the algorith he has invented. An algorithm that teaches machines to learn from their errors to achieve success.
Don’t miss his performance at foi11!
