discovered of Dunbar Number

Florian U. Jehn: What factors allow societies to survive a crisis? This post is part of a living literature review on societal collapse. You can find an indexed archive here.... From time to time you come across a paper that blows you away with the amount of work it must have needed to create it and the fascinating insights that can be gleaned from it. For me the preprint “All Crises are Unhappy in their Own Way: The role of societal instability in shaping the past” by Daniel Hoyer et al. (2024) is such a piece of work. They have built a new dataset on top of the Seshat history database (Turchin et al., 2019) (1). Their new data is meant to capture the majority of big crises from the beginning of recorded history until around the beginning of the 20th century (more)

The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors. Social media provide citizens with power to craft and share news with each other. Unfortunately, this technological transformation has made it easier than before to spread what we call hostile political rumors in a way that goes “farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than truth” (more)

Jason Smith on Polycrisis, complex systems and trust. Daniel Drezner mentioned complex systems in his article on “polycrisis” so that makes it relevant for me to talk about — after all, the raison d'être of information equilibrium is to provide tractable ways to take on complex systems. (more)

a way to confuse a Product Team via Project Management :) (more)

In metal typesetting, a font (American English) or fount (Commonwealth English) is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts "Roman" (or "regular"), "bold" and "italic"; each of these exists in a variety of sizes. In the digital description of fonts (computer fonts), the terms "font" and "typeface" are often used interchangeably.[1] For example, when used in computers, each style is stored in a separate digital font file. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font (more)

Font designed for use in Web Browser. (more)

Attempts to think about Systems And Games. (more)

W. Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 in London – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby. His two books, Design for a Brain and An Introduction to Cybernetics, were landmark works. They introduced exact and logical thinking into the brand new discipline of cybernetics and were highly influential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Ross_Ashby (more)

person who does Product Management (more)

Dmitry Orlov book Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, published in 2008 ISBN:0865716064 (Thin Book: 176 pages) - Survivalism bit? (more)

elang, etc

see Contribution Margin, Traction

Ash Maurya: The Customer Factory Manifesto. 1. All Businesses Share a Common Universal Goal: To make happy customers. (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: Let's pause for a moment, I need time to think. Back when I relaunched this site in 2010...point was that it would be a more focused foundation for my career...this site has always had a defined purpose... ultimately it should always return to form: work. (more)

for Presidential Election (more)

Exclusive: Jason Levin, Head of Growth at Product Hunt, explains why he suddenly quit. Indie hacker X was set ablaze on Wednesday with the surprising news that Jason Levin, the Head of Growth at Product Hunt, was quitting (more)

Sean Monohan on Vibe-Shift America. (Presidential Candidates 2024) The story of this election begins in 2020. During the initial stages of the pandemic, I pitched a client on a content series called “Every Day is a New Reality”—because what was happening, why it was happening, who was lying, and who was telling the truth was genuinely hard to discern. That sense that the media’s grasp on reality was slipping culminated with the total censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story. We now know who clicked the switch. It was the FBI. Mark Zuckerberg has publicly apologized for bowing to pressure from the intelligence services and later the Biden administration. That’s my personal story of media distrust. Oh boy (more)

a WebApp that you can run locally (Always On You) because it's just 1 file of JavaScript and HTML and even CSS smooshed together (more)

What CollaborationWare have I used? (more)