Handlin, Oscar, The Americans (Boston: Little, Brown, 1963), 114: "Select clubs (in the mid-18th century colonies) could only meet in the tavern, where every outsider curiously looked on." HOWEVER, Ben Franklin reports that his club after a while stopped meeting in "the Alehouse" and moved to "a little Room of Mr Grace's set apart for that Purpose" (Autobiography, Lemay 1371). (more)

Advertising tech, mainly ad targeting

Nathan Baschez on Roam's road ahead. So I feel pretty certain that Roam’s road to justifying the $200m valuation leads directly to team collaboration and enterprise use. Which feels, to be honest, a little... depressing? (more)

Evernote's CEO on the company’s long, tricky journey to fix itself. Evernote had five different apps run by five different teams for five different platforms, and each had its own set of features, design touches and technical issues. (more)

Fritz Zwicky (/ˈtsvɪki/;[1] German: [ˈtsvɪki]; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy.[2] In 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to infer the existence of unseen dark matter, describing it as "dunkle (kalt) Materie" (more)

Adam Keesling: Use a Zwicky Box To Solve Hard Problems in Unexpected Ways. A Zwicky Box allows you to search the solution space for the best answer, by allowing you to break up the solution into its component parts and endlessly recombine them to find new solutions you haven’t thought of. It’s like a LEGO set for problem solving. (more)

Eugene Wei: Status as a Service (StaaS). Let's begin with two principles: (tldr: every Human System involves Status Games; ignoring how that might effect user behavior will lead to ugly surprise) (more)

status-quo progressivism - see 2017-01-31-WhyHollywoodIsReallyFreakingOutOverTrump (more)

CoFounder, NeuroHacker Collective https://neurohacker.com/people/jordan-greenhall; https://twitter.com/jgreenhall (more)

aka Single Motherhood, Single Parent Family (more)

love of the new (more)

accepting of change, believer in Progress/Evolution. Neophile. See Virginia Postrel.

Whatever next WikiEngine I work with after MoinMoin, I'll want the SmartAscii to be MarkDown, just because it's the winning standard. (more)

MeatBall:MetaWiki (more)

Why should any "standards" apply to WikiEngines? (more)

The "standard" for Automatic Linking, replacing SmashedTogetherWords, because of reader friendliness.

John Ohno: Ad-tech, touchscreen capture, and our ‘social dilemma’. You know, from direct first hand experience with targeted advertising, that ad-tech is (on average) bullshit. (more)

Slava Akhmechet: Go-to-market strategy for engineers. When you start playing a new game, an expert can easily predict the mistakes you're about to make. It's easy for the expert to do because anyone who doesn't yet have an intuition for the game will make the same class of novice mistakes. (more)

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