see Gartner Hype Cycle

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism is a 2019 book by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, published by Verso Books. In the book, Phillips and Rozworski argue that large multinational corporations, such as Walmart, are not expressions of free-market capitalism but instead examples of central planning on a large scale. They also argue that the question is not if large-scale planning can work, but if it can be made democratic to serve everyone's needs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Republic_of_Walmart

MacroEconomics prof https://braddelong.substack.com/ James Bradford "Brad" DeLong (born June 24, 1960) is an American economic historian who has been a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley since 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Bradford_DeLong (more)

see UbiComp

aka "The Guide", from Adrian Hon's A History Of The 21st Century In 100 Objects (see excerpts there) (more)

Diamond Age junkie; product manager

Gemini is an application-layer internet communication protocol for accessing remote documents, similar to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Gopher. It comes with a special document format, commonly referred to as "gemtext", which allows linking to other documents. Started by a pseudonymous person known as Solderpunk, the protocol is being finalized collaboratively and as of October 2022, has not been submitted to the IETF organization for standardization... The design is inspired by Gopher, but with modernisation such as mandatory use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for connections and a hypertext format as native content type.[4] The design is deliberately not easily extensible, in order to meet a project goal of simplicity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) https://geminiprotocol.net/ (more)

Michael "Mike" Masnick (born December 8,[1] 1974) is an American editor and entrepreneur. He is the CEO and founder of Techdirt, a weblog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Masnick

Tim Harford: Who’s responsible for our accountability problem? I was recently scheduled to present my Cautionary Tales podcast live on stage as a curtainraiser for a podcast conference (more)

Kevin Munger: The Tragedy of Stafford Beer. There has been growing interest in cybernetic socialism over the past decade, starting with Eden Medina’s history Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Evgeny Morozov’s article on Cybersyn in the New Yorker, and a chapter on the enterprise in Leigh Phillips’ and Michal Rozworski’s book The People’s Republic of Walmart. (more)

Frank Miroslav Review: The People’s Republic of Walmart. Let me begin by saying that I’m glad this book exists. Phillips and Rozworski are upfront about their book not containing any radical new insights into questions of economic planning, but instead they compile arguments made by others in a highly readable format, something that those on the left who argue for economic planning have needed for some time. (more)

Belief that a particular Model of Reality represents Absolute Truth. (more)

A collection, typically of WebLog entries. Kinda like a Top Ic. Bigger buckets than KeyWord-s. (more)

part of Customer Development process, part of Product Discovery (more)

Ash Maurya: Problem/Solution Fit (not Product/Market Fit) is the first significant milestone of a startup. Getting to product/market fit (the inflection point in the hockey stick curve) takes roughly two years, and 80% of products never find it. (more)

Ash Maurya: Learn qualitatively, verify quantitatively. While methodologies like Lean Startup draw a comparison between science and entrepreneurship, the goals of scientists and entrepreneurs are quite different. (more)

Nick Denton qualifying Steven Den Beste's diatribe on Dealing With Terrorism. Steven says What they want is to stay with their traditional Culture and for it to be successful, and that isn't possible. We can make them rich through aid, but we can't make them successful because their failure is not caused by us, but by the deep flaws in their culture. Their culture cannot succeed. It is too deeply and fundamentally crippled... I am forthrightly stating that it will be necessary to destabilize the entire Middle East, which puts me exactly counter to European Foreign Policy. (more)

Ben Hunt: Joe Biden and the Common Knowledge Game. ....why coronations and executions are held in public – not so a crowd can see the new king or the hanged man, but so a crowd can see a crowd seeing the new king or the hanged man. Common knowledge is why sitcoms have laugh tracks, why American Idol has a live studio audience, and why professional sports teams pipe in crowd noise. (more)

Andy Matuschak: Are Tools for thought: science, design, art, craftsmanship? J.C.R. Licklider...If you want to help make good on this destiny—to invent human-computer interfaces which radically expand human cognition and creativity—then what do you actually need to do? How does progress happen? (more)

Ben Hunt: The Long Now, Pt. 2 - Make, Protect, Teach. Every three or four generations, humanity consumes itself with the fang and claw of fascism and collectivism. Every three or four generations, we eat our own. This is that time. This is the Long Now. 2019-07-31-HuntTheLongNowPt1Ticktock Today’s note is about my political response to the Long Now... I’m trying to provide an alternative to the abstracted world of narrative and cartoon that rules our mindfulness from the top down, in favor of a concreted world of actual human beings making things and protecting each other and teaching each other. (more)