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Welcome to Hacker Noon Interview Series! See all other Interviews . Good-Company here HackerNoon Reporter: Please tell us briefly about your background. My name is Giacomo and I am a Digital Marketing Manager working in Shanghai since 2016. Why Shanghai? Because after few years working in Italy, I decided to take a big step and go to the other part of the world to learn more about the country, improve my Chinese, and give a twist to my career. Since I moved, I helped companies, especially Chinese ones, to improve their brand presence online. What's your company called? And in a sentence or two, what does it do? The name is . What we do at HROne is helping foreign companies to manage HR, payroll, and employment in China. HROne What is the origin story? The company was born with a mission: helping foreign SMEs to operate in China in an easier and low-risk way. After more than 20 years working in the HR industry, the founder decided that small and medium companies needed to have the same opportunities as big companies. But the problem that these SMEs have is about how to deal with all the boring tasks that do not help to grow the business, but that they are mandatory for the company to survive. I am talking about HR and payroll. Two aspects that are difficult to manage, especially in a country like China, but if you make mistakes they can ruin your business operations and reputations. What do you love about your team? What I love most is their professionalism and expertise in HR and payroll, and their ability to deliver great results even with strict deadlines. The customers constantly thank them because of their knowledge of the policies and their availability when a problem arises. If you weren’t working at your company, what would you be doing? I have a passion for teaching, so I would probably use this passion to teach people more about the digital marketing environment and how it can help companies to succeed in this modern world. At the moment, how do you measure success? What are your core metrics? The success is measured by the number of leads that we receive, traffic that we get on the website, and mentions online of our brand. What’s most exciting about your company traction to date? We are developing software that will allow companies to easily manage HR and payroll in China and the idea is to sell this software together with our service. What technologies are you currently most excited about, and most worried about? And why? I think AI is the future. I am excited because this technology can be applied in many different industries and different jobs, but I am also worried about it because we still don’t understand it completely and the idea that some AI could take control of important data and use it for whatever reason, scares me. What drew you to get published on HackerNoon? What do you like most about our platform? The platform is great to know more about the latest technological trends and the stories are definitely interesting for the audience working with technology (not only from a developer point of view but also from a marketer point of view). What advice would you give to the 21-year-old version of yourself? Start to invest the money that you have to create as soon as possible your financial freedom. What is something surprising you've learned this year that your contemporaries would benefit from knowing? I like to find ways to improve my body and mind performances and I actually found out that breathing (when done in the correct way) is a powerful action to both relax our mind and improve our blood circulation to activate more our muscles.

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Note: This was originally written in 2019. taught us there is no better way to explore a place than through people and food. I traveled to Medellín, Colombia, both to explore for a week on vacation and then to immerse myself in daily life while working remotely as the creator of , the first cryptocurrency news audiocast app. Anthony Bourdain Coinverse Despite eating mostly , it is important to experience the local cuisine. Most of my research was compiled at 3 A.M., thanks to the au pair in the adjacent seat on my red-eye who was also unable to sleep. vegetables and protein Must try Classics Bandeja Paisa Empanadas Arepa Paisa Sopas Hot dogs Empanadas They have a major difference from the Mexican variety, made from corn instead of flour, theoretically healthier if not deep-fried. Empanadas are available everywhere. The ones below came recommended by . Empanadas Envigadeñas Sopa is moreso a hardy meal. I believed I was having chicken but later discovered that it was more 'exotic', the stomach of a cow or pig. Sopa de Mondongo Here are places to check out for classic stews. Asados Doña Rosa Restaurante Mondongo’s El Poblado Hot dogs "Hot dogs" is an understatement. Nothing about the Perro Malvada Pequeña was pequeña. After some cerveza and tasting Aguardiente (the national tequila), this was a fine idea. Alone and overwhelmed with the menu, I rolled the dice and told them I'd have what the person in front of me was having. This puts the Philly Cheesesteak to shame. Towards the weekend, this food stand is open at the intersection of . Carrera 43A and Calle 7D Chocolate I prefer chocolate with high amounts of cacao, which Medellín is known for. Below are a few of my favorite cacao-rich chocolates. Store-bought 1. Lok, bought at , from . This is exactly what I had been looking for, pure 100% cacao. It contains an initial bitter punch, then a dark, smooth, and rich aftertaste. I bought sweeter chocolates for gifts and stocked up on Lok for myself. Cacao Brunch Arauca 2. Tilín Tilín, bought at , from . This is my favorite gift for others. Each variety has a distinct flavor. Rooibos is one of my favorite teas containing sweetness, making the 69% cacao Rooibos & Roses bar my top pick. Rooibos & Roses provides instant sweetness with a hint of tart. Tilín Tilín Chocolate Factory Tumaco Pro-tip, the longer you talk with the chocolate tender, the more free samples you'll be rewarded. 3. , bought at , from , , Tumaco, and Arauca. All four are smooth and creamy, tasting similar to milk chocolate. I could not identify major flavor differences between each. Tibitó Cacao brunch Meta Putumayo 4. , bought at , from Tumaco. The 82% cacao bar is dark, smooth, and simple. Sold at one of my favorite cafes, Urbania pairs a sample of chocolate with their coffee. Cacao Hunters Urbania Café 5. Moctezuma, bought at Fruta Provenza, from . This has a homemade feel, loosely wrapped in tin foil within the box. It was good, but it had no distinct flavor due to the overpowering of sweet jam at the bottom. Guatapé The store Fruta Provenza is fantastic, selling healthy food not found at most grocery stores. During my chocolate haul, I made an impulse purchase of almond flour baked bread. 6. Kalu, bought at Fruta Provenza, from . The flavor was mild and chocolate fairly smooth, but nothing stood out from the peanuts, raisins, blueberries, and coconut. Pereira 7. , bought at any grocery store, from . I could not find dark chocolate, but had to try the milk chocolate. It's a classic from 1920, and what you'd expect from a standard milk chocolate without the depth of a Tilin Tilin or Tibitó. Jet Rionegro I ran out of time to find . According to their team, they are sold  at , , and at the Sol Verde in the . Chocolate Suagu Éxito de Envigado Unicentro Shopping Center , Viva Laureles Oviedo mall I could not find the following which have stores in Bogotá. Cacao y Más Cacao Chuculat Carlota Chocolat See by CultureTrip 7 Colombian Chocolate Brands You Need to Know About Ceremonial cacao The best cacao was at a private cacao ceremony I attended. Check with your health professional before trying as this cacao affects blood pressure. My roommates planned this experience, and I enthusiastically joined. I only heard of cacao ceremonies at yoga studios and through a 2016 of Berlin clubbers having cacao instead of alcohol and drugs. I envisioned sipping the hot drink in a relaxed setting, which it was, but it was also much more. story The master of ceremony was a nice woman named Sandy, who had studied these types of ceremonies throughout Latin and South America for many years. She informed us this ritual has been shared for thousands of years by the people across the Americas. Before European conquests, cacao was used as currency and sacred medicine. Ceremonial cacao has a strict and specific selection process compared to store-bought cacao. Beginning the first cup, I was warned to take my time. A few sips in, and I felt a strong sensation in the top left of my chest where a large vein was. I slowly continued feeling a strong yet relaxed buzz spread to my head and the rest of my body. The final effect was mental clarity and relaxation without any caffeine jitters. See by USA Today What is a cacao ceremony? Next up, I explore the local activities and how to work effectively. Medellín —  Discover the local appeal Medellín —  Work remotely If you're curious “Why Medellín?”, read . Medellín —The nomad's hidden gem enjoys sharing and is a researcher and product consultant. Adam Hurwitz travel open info

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A TALE OF THE PASSIONS; OR, THE DEATH OF DESPINA

Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book . Chapter XLI here CHAPTER FORTY-FIRST. The Approaches to Senegal.—The Balloon sinks lower and lower.—They keep throwing out, throwing out.—The Marabout Al-Hadji.—Messrs. Pascal, Vincent, and Lambert.—A Rival of Mohammed.—The Difficult Mountains.—Kennedy’s Weapons.—One of Joe’s Manœuvres.—A Halt over a Forest. On the 27th of May, at nine o’clock in the morning, the country presented an entirely different aspect. The slopes, extending far away, changed to hills that gave evidence of mountains soon to follow. They would have to cross the chain which separates the basin of the Niger from the basin of the Senegal, and determines the course of the water-shed, whether to the Gulf of Guinea on the one hand, or to the bay of Cape Verde on the other. As far as Senegal, this part of Africa is marked down as dangerous. Dr. Ferguson knew it through the recitals of his predecessors. They had suffered a thousand privations and been exposed to a thousand dangers in the midst of these barbarous negro tribes. It was this fatal climate that had devoured most of the companions of Mungo Park. Ferguson, therefore, was more than ever decided not to set foot in this inhospitable region. But he had not enjoyed one moment of repose. The was descending very perceptibly, so much so that he had to throw overboard a number more of useless articles, especially when there was a mountain-top to pass. Things went on thus for more than one hundred and twenty miles; they were worn out with ascending and falling again; the balloon, like another rock of Sisyphus, kept continually sinking back toward the ground. The rotundity of the covering, which was now but little inflated, was collapsing already. It assumed an elongated shape, and the wind hollowed large cavities in the silken surface. Victoria Kennedy could not help observing this. “Is there a crack or a tear in the balloon?” he asked. “No, but the gutta percha has evidently softened or melted in the heat, and the hydrogen is escaping through the silk.” “How can we prevent that?” “It is impossible. Let us lighten her. That is the only help. So let us throw out every thing we can spare.” “But what shall it be?” said the hunter, looking at the car, which was already quite bare. “Well, let us get rid of the awning, for its weight is quite considerable.” Joe, who was interested in this order, climbed up on the circle which kept together the cordage of the network, and from that place easily managed to detach the heavy curtains of the awning and throw them overboard. “There’s something that will gladden the hearts of a whole tribe of blacks,” said he; “there’s enough to dress a thousand of them, for they’re not very extravagant with cloth.” The balloon had risen a little, but it soon became evident that it was again approaching the ground. “Let us alight,” suggested Kennedy, “and see what can be done with the covering of the balloon.” “I tell you, again, Dick, that we have no means of repairing it.” “Then what shall we do?” “We’ll have to sacrifice every thing not absolutely indispensable; I am anxious, at all hazards, to avoid a detention in these regions. The forests over the tops of which we are skimming are any thing but safe.” “What! are there lions in them, or hyenas?” asked Joe, with an expression of sovereign contempt. “Worse than that, my boy! There are men, and some of the most cruel, too, in all Africa.” “How is that known?” “By the statements of travellers who have been here before us. Then the French settlers, who occupy the colony of Senegal, necessarily have relations with the surrounding tribes. Under the administration of Colonel Faidherbe, reconnaissances have been pushed far up into the country. Officers such as Messrs. Pascal, Vincent, and Lambert, have brought back precious documents from their expeditions. They have explored these countries formed by the elbow of the Senegal in places where war and pillage have left nothing but ruins.” “What, then, took place?” “I will tell you. In 1854 a Marabout of the Senegalese Fouta, Al-Hadji by name, declaring himself to be inspired like Mohammed, stirred up all the tribes to war against the infidels—that is to say, against the Europeans. He carried destruction and desolation over the regions between the Senegal River and its tributary, the Fatémé. Three hordes of fanatics led on by him scoured the country, sparing neither a village nor a hut in their pillaging, massacring career. He advanced in person on the town of Ségo, which was a long time threatened. In 1857 he worked up farther to the northward, and invested the fortification of Medina, built by the French on the bank of the river. This stronghold was defended by Paul Holl, who, for several months, without provisions or ammunition, held out until Colonel Faidherbe came to his relief. Al-Hadji and his bands then repassed the Senegal, and reappeared in the Kaarta, continuing their rapine and murder.—Well, here below us is the very country in which he has found refuge with his hordes of banditti; and I assure you that it would not be a good thing to fall into his hands.” “We shall not,” said Joe, “even if we have to throw overboard our clothes to save the .” Victoria “We are not far from the river,” said the doctor, “but I foresee that our balloon will not be able to carry us beyond it.” “Let us reach its banks, at all events,” said the Scot, “and that will be so much gained.” “That is what we are trying to do,” rejoined Ferguson, “only that one thing makes me feel anxious.” “What is that?” “We shall have mountains to pass, and that will be difficult to do, since I cannot augment the ascensional force of the balloon, even with the greatest possible heat that I can produce.” “Well, wait a bit,” said Kennedy, “and we shall see!” “The poor ” sighed Joe; “I had got fond of her as the sailor does of his ship, and I’ll not give her up so easily. She may not be what she was at the start—granted; but we shouldn’t say a word against her. She has done us good service, and it would break my heart to desert her.” Victoria! “Be at your ease, Joe; if we leave her, it will be in spite of ourselves. She’ll serve us until she’s completely worn out, and I ask of her only twenty-four hours more!” “Ah, she’s getting used up! She grows thinner and thinner,” said Joe, dolefully, while he eyed her. “Poor balloon!” “Unless I am deceived,” said Kennedy, “there on the horizon are the mountains of which you were speaking, doctor.” “Yes, there they are, indeed!” exclaimed the doctor, after having examined them through his spy-glass, “and they look very high. We shall have some trouble in crossing them.” “Can we not avoid them?” “I am afraid not, Dick. See what an immense space they occupy—nearly one-half of the horizon!” “They even seem to shut us in,” added Joe. “They are gaining on both our right and our left.” “We must then pass over them.” These obstacles, which threatened such imminent peril, seemed to approach with extreme rapidity, or, to speak more accurately, the wind, which was very fresh, was hurrying the balloon toward the sharp peaks. So rise it must, or be dashed to pieces. “Let us empty our tank of water,” said the doctor, “and keep only enough for one day.” “There it goes,” shouted Joe. “Does the balloon rise at all?” asked Kennedy. “A little—some fifty feet,” replied the doctor, who kept his eyes fixed on the barometer. “But that is not enough.” In truth the lofty peaks were starting up so swiftly before the travellers that they seemed to be rushing down upon them. The balloon was far from rising above them. She lacked an elevation of more than five hundred feet more. The stock of water for the cylinder was also thrown overboard and only a few pints were retained, but still all this was not enough. “We must pass them though!” urged the doctor. “Let us throw out the tanks—we have emptied them.” said Kennedy. “Over with them!” “There they go!” panted Joe. “But it’s hard to see ourselves dropping off this way by piecemeal.” “Now, for your part, Joe, make no attempt to sacrifice yourself as you did the other day! Whatever happens, swear to me that you will not leave us!” “Have no fears, my master, we shall not be separated.” The had ascended some hundred and twenty feet, but the crest of the mountain still towered above it. It was an almost perpendicular ridge that ended in a regular wall rising abruptly in a straight line. It still rose more than two hundred feet over the aëronauts. Victoria “In ten minutes,” said the doctor to himself, “our car will be dashed against those rocks unless we succeed in passing them!” “Well, doctor?” queried Joe. “Keep nothing but our pemmican, and throw out all the heavy meat.” Thereupon the balloon was again lightened by some fifty pounds, and it rose very perceptibly, but that was of little consequence, unless it got above the line of the mountain-tops. The situation was terrifying. The was rushing on with great rapidity. They could feel that she would be dashed to pieces—that the shock would be fearful. Victoria The doctor glanced around him in the car. It was nearly empty. “If needs be, Dick, hold yourself in readiness to throw over your fire-arms!” “Sacrifice my fire-arms?” repeated the sportsman, with intense feeling. “My friend, I ask it; it will be absolutely necessary!” “Samuel! Doctor!” “Your guns, and your stock of powder and ball might cost us our lives.” “We are close to it!” cried Joe. Sixty feet! The mountain still overtopped the balloon by sixty feet. Joe took the blankets and other coverings and tossed them out; then, without a word to Kennedy, he threw over several bags of bullets and lead. The balloon went up still higher; it surmounted the dangerous ridge, and the rays of the sun shone upon its uppermost extremity; but the car was still below the level of certain broken masses of rock, against which it would inevitably be dashed. “Kennedy! Kennedy! throw out your fire-arms, or we are lost!” shouted the doctor. “Wait, sir; wait one moment!” they heard Joe exclaim, and, looking around, they saw Joe disappear over the edge of the balloon. “Joe! Joe!” cried Kennedy. “Wretched man!” was the doctor’s agonized expression. The flat top of the mountain may have had about twenty feet in breadth at this point, and, on the other side, the slope presented a less declivity. The car just touched the level of this plane, which happened to be quite even, and it glided over a soil composed of sharp pebbles that grated as it passed. “We’re over it! we’re over it! we’re clear!” cried out an exulting voice that made Ferguson’s heart leap to his throat. The daring fellow was there, grasping the lower rim of the car, and running afoot over the top of the mountain, thus lightening the balloon of his whole weight. He had to hold on with all his strength, too, for it was likely to escape his grasp at any moment. When he had reached the opposite declivity, and the abyss was before him, Joe, by a vigorous effort, hoisted himself from the ground, and, clambering up by the cordage, rejoined his friends. “That was all!” he coolly ejaculated. “My brave Joe! my friend!” said the doctor, with deep emotion. “Oh! what I did,” laughed the other, “was not for you; it was to save Mr. Kennedy’s rifle. I owed him that good turn for the affair with the Arab! I like to pay my debts, and now we are even,” added he, handing to the sportsman his favorite weapon. “I’d feel very badly to see you deprived of it.” Kennedy heartily shook the brave fellow’s hand, without being able to utter a word. The had nothing to do now but to descend. That was easy enough, so that she was soon at a height of only two hundred feet from the ground, and was then in equilibrium. The surface seemed very much broken as though by a convulsion of nature. It presented numerous inequalities, which would have been very difficult to avoid during the night with a balloon that could no longer be controlled. Evening was coming on rapidly, and, notwithstanding his repugnance, the doctor had to make up his mind to halt until morning. Victoria “We’ll now look for a favorable stopping-place,” said he. “Ah!” replied Kennedy, “you have made up your mind, then, at last?” “Yes, I have for a long time been thinking over a plan which we’ll try to put into execution; it is only six o’clock in the evening, and we shall have time enough. Throw out your anchors, Joe!” Joe immediately obeyed, and the two anchors dangled below the balloon. “I see large forests ahead of us,” said the doctor; “we are going to sweep along their tops, and we shall grapple to some tree, for nothing would make me think of passing the night below, on the ground.” “But can we not descend?” asked Kennedy. “To what purpose? I repeat that it would be dangerous for us to separate, and, besides, I claim your help for a difficult piece of work.” The , which was skimming along the tops of immense forests, soon came to a sharp halt. Her anchors had caught, and, the wind falling as dusk came on, she remained motionlessly suspended above a vast field of verdure, formed by the tops of a forest of sycamores. Victoria About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Jules Verne (2002). Five Weeks in a Balloon. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3526/pg3526-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at , located at . www.gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html

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