Oct'2010 Live Event about EBook-s being readable in Web Browser-s vs dedicated devices/apps. See BrowserBasedEbookReader. Has become label for the general idea (see related Book Server). (more)

comedian who started in the 1950s, known for pulling lots of his material from that day's newspaper, and using it as a prop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Sahl (more)

see Stand-Up Meeting, Comedian

Milo Yiannopoulos (/jəˈnɒpələs/;[9] né Hanrahan; born 18 October 1984)[1][10][11] is a British right-wing political commentator. His speeches and writings criticise Islam, feminism, social justice, and political correctness.[12][13][14] Yiannopoulos is a former editor of Breitbart News, an American far-right news and opinion website.[15] Yiannopoulos worked for Breitbart from 2014 to 2017. During this time, he rose to prominence as a significant voice in the Gamergate controversy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos

see Breitbart News

4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump (more)

John Robb term - social network supporting Donald Trump for president, as repudiation of the last 50 years (What Happened In The 1970s?).

Connie Chan is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she focuses on investing in consumer technology. Connie joined the firm in 2011 as a deal partner on the investment team before becoming a general partner in 2018. She serves on the boards of Cider, Whatnot, and KoBold. Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Connie worked at HP leading its webOS efforts in China. She started her career as a private equity investor at Elevation Partners, investing in media and entertainment. https://a16z.com/author/connie-chan/

Can ChatGPT help with product management? (more)

from (2022-11-30) Nadia Mapping Out The Tribes Of Climate

see framing

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian (before-Christopher Columbus) Americas. It was the 2006 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public's understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine. The book presents recent research findings in different fields that suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous (peak of 100 million), had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought...By the time the Europeans arrived in numbers to supplant the indigenous population in the Americas, the previous dominant people had been almost eliminated, mostly by disease (brought by Europeans since 1492). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus ISBN:1400032059 (more)

Michael Nielsen has a thread suggesting a mashup of James Scott, legibility, Gall's Law, Jane Jacobs, Chesterton's fence, OODA loops, Daron Acemoglu et al on Radical Reform, & Red Plenty... with a big dose of Elinor Ostrom as well. (more)

Scott Alexander: The Consequences Of Radical Reform. So maybe the moral of the story is something like - replacing stagnation and entrenched interests with good reform is good, and with bad reform is bad. Which sounds obvious, but I do think that considerations of "is this potentially challenging a carefully evolved system of traditions?" is less important than I originally believed. (more)

site that calculates walkable ratings of cities/neighborhoods https://www.walkscore.com/cities-and-neighborhoods/ The 130 cities we rate with a population of 200,000 or greater have an average Walk Score of 48.

an under-appreciated and under-used tool in Physical Fitness (more)

Jason Cohen: Using the Needs Stack for competitive business strategy. Charlie’s life ambition is not “to buy infrastructure.” In fact, it’s a means to and end. What Charlie really wants is to have a functioning WordPress-based website (more)

Karl Schroeder: How to Save the Metaverse (and Why). If you disregard all the people who ‘touched’ the Metaverse in some abstract, transactional way, who’s actually been there lately? I really want to know—because the vision of the Metaverse is as an alternate universe, a virtual playground of unlimited extent, as imagined in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, Ernest Cline’s Ready, Player One; and in William Gibson’s Cyberspace, the Matrix or (going back to the dark ages of 1982 and Tron, “the Grid”). (more)

Karl Schroeder: The Music of the Anthropocene. ..some pieces are holding my attention not because they capture the aesthetic of the day, but because they engage with the moment in other ways: they are music about life in the Anthropocene. Here are a few that I’ve had on steady rotation. (more)

Karl Schroeder: Unpredicting 2024. ...not what your average random stranger is fishing for when they find out I do foresight and ask me to “predict something.” What we care about, what they’re fishing for, is what’s going to surprise us. (more)