concept from Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody (more)

Dave Pollard compares Collaboration to CoOperation and CoOrdination. The term is being cheapened (“collaboration tools”, “collaborative environments”) to the point where in many people’s minds it’s indistinguishable from cooperation and coordination, which are less elaborate and less ambitious collective undertakings.

Ronald Coase, "The Nature of the Firm" - size (BigCo) driven by Transaction Cost (more)

In the American political system, the unofficial fourth branch of government refers to a group that influences the other Three Branches of the US federal government defined in the American Constitution (Legislative, Executive and Judicial). Such groups can include the press (an analogy for the Fourth Estate), the people, and interest groups. US independent administrative government agencies, while technically part of the Executive branch (or, in a few cases, the Legislative branch) of government, may also be referred to as the fourth branch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_branch_of_government

Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded and was the President of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute for decades.[1] He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent of cognitive-behavioral therapies.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ellis cf CBT, REBT

see Educational Technology

stick PIM data in text files, via/edit via Text Editor. StructuredData as YAML? (more)

creating e-learning tools, and hyperlink "school". https://awarm.space/

I was pondering the next step of CoachBot experiences/media, and a number of people have recently been tweeting/etc about SRS/Anki, random note-reminders, etc. (more)

The term I'm using for holding Dialogue in an ecosystem that leverages the WikiWeb. From http://billseitz.tiddlyspace.com/#WikiWebDialogue (more)

see WebMention

see NoEstimates, Mob Programming

Ben Hunt on Gell-Mann Amnesia. I’ve written about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect before, but I wanted to highlight it in a standalone Brief. Why? Because I think it’s the primary driver of the social pathology we have today regarding media (MSM) in general and social media in particular. (more)

Ben Hunt: The Welding Shut of the American Min. My argument is that the rules of the mental games we are playing today – the algorithm that goes through our hard-wired and socially trained heads as we process highly mediated and constructed narratives – creates a stable, incredibly damaging equilibrium of indignation and ego. My argument is that the closing of the American mind is evolving into its next stage: the welding shut of the American mind. (more)

previously Advanced RISC Machine, originally Acorn RISC Machine, is a family of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architectures for computer processors, configured for various environments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

my apparent home, specifically Barrington IL (more)

aka Illinois

Tiny steps toward Habit/behavior change? Piece Meal Social Engineering? Fascism with a friendly smile? (more)

Chris Dixon says Come for the tool, stay for the network. (more)

Jason Pereira: Diverse Distributed Databases. Following my gut from last week (2020-09-14-PereiraCollidingSpatialIdeas), I experimented a little this week with Cloudflare workers, making a tiny app. (more)