Discord is a proprietary freeware VoIP application and digital distribution platform designed for video gaming communities, that specializes in text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and in web browsers. As of 21 July 2019, there are over 250 million unique users of the software. Video-game messaging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord_(software) Not open-source!
Converting PrivateWiki content from PikiPiki To WikiFlux, after coding WikiFlux For PrivateWiki. Similar to Converting Moinmoin Text To Markdown. (more)
Theory Z is a name for various theories of human motivation built on Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y. Theories X, Y and various versions of Z have been used in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational communication and organizational development. (more)
Robert Reich term: step up from generic white-collar worker (more)
Digital Garden which only you can read. aka Private Wiki Notebook.
Digital Garden which anyone/others can read - aka WikiLog/Weblog.
Nomic, A Game of Self-Amendment - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm (which includes many links to instances on the web) (more)
Religious Cult? Conspiracy Theory reality? The Craft? (more)
Character in a number of Neal Stephenson books: The Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon, and Fall, or Dodge in Hell): immortal? https://baroquecycle.fandom.com/wiki/Enoch_Root (more)
Rusty Guinn: First the People. The first World War was bloody and vicious. By its end, it had taken the lives of more than 20 million people (more)
Paul Rosenberg: Elizabeth Warren, the Democrats, and the real problem with the "fake news media". For all Donald Trump’s ranting and railing against the media, they are and always have been Trump’s most valuable asset, boosting his signal exponentially — largely on his terms — while simultaneously serving as his all-purpose punching bag. (more)
Jay Rosen: A current list of my top problems in pressthink, Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. 1. Absent some kind of creative intervention, 2020 (presidential election) campaign coverage looks will be the same as it ever was...
It's time to replace my MacBookPro. (more)
indieweb.social is a Mastodon instance that has (semi?)open sign-ups so anyone (like beyond the community) might have an account there, and was started with the intent of adding and enabling IndieWeb standards as proof of how Mastodon could federate with sites in general, beyond other Mastodon sites. https://indieweb.org/indieweb.social
twist from ShitPosting. Nov17'2020 - someone on a list was talking about how a graph view was helping them tighten each of a bundle of notes before they pulled it together into a piece to Publish, and I said I preferred ShitNoding, not expecting any Digital Garden node to ever be Done. Publish Then Filter.
This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)
My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Evolution by increasing Freedom, Agency, and Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (SmallWorld) via D And D of Thinking Tools (software and Games To Play).
See Intro Page for space-related goals, status, etc.; or Wiki Node for more terse summary info.
Beware the War On The Net!
Current:
- head of product for an early-stage boot-strapped company
- founder FluxGarden for Digital Garden hosting
- wrote Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems ASIN:B00HHJA5JS
My Coding for fun.
Past:
- Director Product Managment, NCSA Sports
- CTO/Product Manager at a series of startups: MedScape, then Axiom Legal, then Living Independently, then DailyLit, then AEP...
- founded Family Financial Future, personal-financial-planning nagware for parents
- consulting
- founded Teamflux.com, a hosting service for wiki-based collaboration spaces.
- founded Wikilogs.com, a hosting service for WikiLog-s (wiki-based weblogs).
Agile Product Development, Product Management from MVP to Product-Market Fit, Adding Product To Your Startup Team, Agility, Context, and Team Agency, (2022-10-12) Accidental Learnings of a Journeyman Product Manager
TryingAI, LLM/GenAI, Claude Code
Hero's Journey, Transformation, CategoryPirates
Oligarchy; Big Levers, Theory of Change, Change the World, (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future; Network Enlightenment, Optimistic Near Future Vision; Huge Invention; Alternatives To A College Degree; Credit Crisis 2008; Economic Transition; Network Economy; Making A Living; Varieties Of Info Technology Jobs; Generative Schooling; Product Oriented Unschooling; Reality Hacker; A 20th Century Economic Theory
FluxGarden; Network Enlightenment Ecosystem; ThinkingTools Interaction as Medium; Hypermedia Pattern Language; Everyone Needs Their Own ThinkingSpace; Digital Garden; Virtual ThinkingSpace; Thinking Tools Companies; Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts; My CollaborationWare History; Wiki Proliferation; Portal Collaboration Roadmap; Wiki For GroupWare, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, Email Discussion Beside Wiki, Wiki For CollaborationWare, Collaboration Roadmap; Sister Sites; Wiki Hack
Personal Cloud; 2018-11-29-NextOpenInfrastructure, 2018-11-15-BooksVsTweets; Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock
Social Warrens; Culture War; 2017-02-15-MindmapCultureWarSocialMediaEconomy; Cultural Pluralism
Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Small Tribe, SimplestThing, Becoming A Reality Hacker, Less-Bullshit Living, The Craft; Games To Play; Evolution, Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems
Digital Therapeutics, (2021-05-26) Pondering a Mental Health space, CoachBot; Inside-Out Markov Chain
Made with flux.garden