Parag Khanna thinks the City State will be the key player of the century. Already, more than half the world lives in cities (Urbanization), and the percentage is growing rapidly. But just 100 cities account for 30 percent of the world's economy, and almost all its Innovation. (more)

In John Boyd’s terminology, building a snowmobile is crafting a novel solution to a problem that synthesizes various fully optimized but conceptually unrelated elements into a cohesive whole (motorcycle handlebars + tank treads + skis + boat outboard motor = a vehicle built to traverse snow). In this case, we need a novel solution that rapidly develops space. (more)

old fighter pilot responsible for OODA model (more)

A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence".[1] Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized but not defined by formalism, traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism, and performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual (more)

book (Design Fiction?) by Adrian Hon ASIN:B00EX8QRPM http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ (more)

novel by Andy Kessler ISBN:098271632X (more)

Someone making a living on their own. I think of it as a one-person "company": being a freelancer or consultant doesn't smell the same (where as they do fall under the Free Agent umbrella). Is that implying a requirement on having a "product"? Not sure... (more)

I've been programming and designing software for over 25 years. My chief interest is in systems that allow end-users to visualize and manipulate complex systems. I've designed and built many systems that involve both complex user interfaces and an AI/KR component (such as a visual knowledge entry for medical expert systems, and a spatial visualizer for the Cyc knowledge base). I've also built many systems that involve end-user programming, for many different types of users including both children and scientists. My approach: the goal is to make software that lets people be smarter (Augmenting Human Intellect). http://hyperphor.com/ammdi https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdtravers/ (more)

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show. The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what they’ll do. (more)

Naomi Klein: China's All-Seeing Eye. With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export. (more)

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing. The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. (more)

Kevin Carson book (more)

Kevin Carson book. (more)

Kevin Carson book (more)

Kevin Carson's Homebrew Industrial Revolution is available now as Printed Book ISBN:1439266999 and free EBook. Resilient Community, Desktop Fab, etc. (more)

Teresa Torres tool for Agile Product Development framing: connecting big desired-outcomes to specific pains/opportunities, to solutions/hypotheses, to experiments.... aka OST (more)

structure of peer-managed organization to share/reduce costs of an activity (more)

Marketing of Internet-based services? Marketing via the Internet? (more)

aka ObamaCare

Steven Levy: Brian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night—and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything App. As Brian Chesky tells it, the reinvention of Airbnb started with the coup at OpenAI. On November 17, 2023, the board of OpenAI fired company CEO Sam Altman. His friend Chesky leapt into action—publicly defending his pal on X, getting on the phone with Microsoft’s CEO.... “I was so jacked up,” he says—turned his buzzing mind to his own company, Airbnb.... He wanted to bust the company he’d cofounded out of its pigeonhole of short-term home rentals. I guess this was made possible by (2023-09-09) Itamar Gilad On Linkedin Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management. (more)