It seems like Gmail is Blocking Some FluxGarden Registration Emails - got a few bounces today with (more)

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ESP - was independent but now acquired by Twilio

EFF: 5 Big Unanswered Questions About the TikTok Bill. In isolation, parts of the argument might sound somewhat reasonable, but lawmakers still need to clear up their confused case for banning TikTok. Before throwing their support behind the TikTok bill, Americans should be able to understand it fully, something that they can start doing by considering these five questions. (more)

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Made-for-Advertising (heh MFA) Website (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz On the Latest TikTok Bill. TikTok Might Get Banned Soon. This attempt is getting reasonably far rather quickly, passing the House with broad support. (more)

EFF: Congress Should Give Up on Unconstitutional TikTok Bans. The only solution to this pervasive ecosystem is prohibiting the collection of our data in the first place. (more)

Matt Stoller: The TikTok. Problem Is Not What You Think. While I support the bill, and find most of these objections lacking in credibility, there is some legitimacy to the skepticism, which I’ll get into. But what I want to offer is some basic framing, which is that this legislation has to be understood not as a substitute to a broader movement for reform of social media and privacy, but as part of it. (more)

EFF on Privacy-First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms. Many of the ills of today’s internet have a single thing in common: they are built on a system of corporate surveillance (Surveillance Capitalism). Multiple companies, large and small, collect data about where we go, what we do, what we read, who we communicate with, and so on (more)

someone "actively", "consciously" game-playing; vs NPC, acting dead; see esp (2018-03-14) Burja Live Versus Dead Players (more)

go away or I will replace you with a simple shell script! (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Being Wrong. After a company achieves product/market-fit, things get complex. (more)

Hot take: a lot of "soft skills" in business are necessary only as side-effects of crummy Organization Design: structure, process, culture. Incoherent/lacking Autonomy, Mastery, And Purpose. See also High Agency. cf Glue People

Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (ReST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding (more)

Back-justifying your decision-making. (more)

"every ThinkingTool is 80% used as a Not-Thinking Tool"

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This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (17k 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!

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Current:

My Coding for fun.

Past:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billseitz/

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

My Coding

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; 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

Book list, Greatest Books

To Write

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