see MadLibs (more)

Luke Muehlhauser: A beginner’s guide to modern art jazz. (Highlights below are focused on his 'top' choices, so I can work my way through them; also incl some non-'top' choices that I wanted linked.) There are few guides to modern art jazz that are aimed at the beginner. The best guide I know of is by Piero Scaruffi, who rightly complains... (more)

Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion[2]) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars and basses, amplifiers, and keyboard instruments (including electric pianos and organs) that were popular in rock began to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies, in a similar fashion to progressive rock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_fusion (more)

Mental Model, Framework (more)

A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dictum, "something said"[1]) or forecast is a statement about a future event or about future data. Predictions are often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge of forecasters. There is no universal agreement about the exact difference between "prediction" and "estimation"; different authors and disciplines ascribe different connotations. Future events are necessarily uncertain, so guaranteed accurate information about the future is impossible. Prediction can be useful to assist in making plans about possible developments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction (thinking in bets)

Jason Cohen interviews Rison Simon on Creating customer interview questions before you have customers using Iterative Hypothesis.

Social Networking service designed around Warrens instead of Plazas (Warrens vs Plaza) to try and counter BigWorld Pathological patterns. (more)

Tech Startup Founder: Xianhang Zhang is a software developer and product designer who co-founded a company called Bumblebee Labs (which operated from roughly 2008 to 2010). [4, 5] (more)

Hang Zhang argument about designing Social Network as single big public space (e.g. Plaza) vs cluster or semi-private spaces (warren): see 2010-11-08-SocialSoftwareCoolingLegibilityAndWarrensVsPlazas (more)

Time Management method to keep from getting drowned in your To-Do List, works with Getting Things Done (Next Action) and other bigger-picture models (Worldview Based Living, etc.). Prioritize to 1 bottleneck! (more)

Back in 2007 Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a post about groups becoming more fanatical over time via Evaporative Cooling - where some event triggers the more reasonable/skeptical people into leaving a group, so that those left behind have discussions that have less skepticism to drawn on. My own theory of Internet moderation is that you have to be willing to exclude trolls and spam to get a conversation going. You must even be willing to exclude kindly but technically uninformed folks from technical mailing lists if you want to get any work done. A genuinely open conversation on the Internet degenerates fast. It's the articulate trolls that you should be wary of ejecting, on this theory - they serve the hidden function of legitimizing less extreme disagreements. But you should not have so many articulate trolls that they begin arguing with each other, or begin to dominate conversations. If you have one person around who is the famous Guy Who Disagrees With Everything, anyone with a more reasonable, more moderate disagreement won't look like the sole nail sticking out. This theory of Internet moderation may not have served me too well in practice, so take it with a grain of salt. (more)

info-top analog to the Social Graph? (more)

2011-06-30-GooglePlusLaunches: Google Plus is launching, their new Social Networking product line. Google Circles (Universal Canvas), Google Sparks, Google Hangouts (Video Chart), Instant Upload, Google Messenger (Group Messaging). (more)

GoogleCircles was a GooglePlus feature. It enabled users to organize people into groups or lists for sharing[61] across various Google products and services. Organization of circles was done through a drag-and-drop interface[62] until a site redesign in 2015 reduced it to a simple checkbox interface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B#Circles (more)

MicroBlog tool http://twitter.com/ (more)

Evan Williams bought back Odeo from its investors (MBO) to create Obvious Corp. He says it's not going to be a Vanity Incubator, but I'm not sure I believe it. (more)

Dan Hon suggests a Firebreak Protocol: A Long-Winded Set Of Meandering Thoughts Regarding Social Media (Social Graph, Social Warrens): (more)

Everything is Deeply Intertwingled. See Intertwingularity

Ash Maurya: Reorder your Chain of Beliefs with a leaner Lean Canvas. The real challenge isn’t idea generation, but idea validation....at the earliest stages, however, it helps to more narrowly focus attention on just the two outer boxes of the canvas: Customer segment and Problem. (Problem Discovery, Customer Discovery) (more)

Ash Maurya: My New Project — Unpacking the Innovator’s Gift – Love the Problem. Problem Discovery (Problem Interview) Before Solution Validation (Solution Interview) (more)