Kathy Sierra product goal: Oct'2012 talk: Now some of you may know I used to say words like “user AweSome ” or “user Kicking Ass” (Kick-Ass) or “user Passionate ” I don’t really tend to use those words anymore because it’s really easy to misinterpret that as yet another “we made the customer feel good” or ‘he likes us.” It’s too easy to focus back on the company again. This isn’t about focusing on what the user thinks of you. It’s about what the user is able to do, and to be able to become Bad-Ass. (more)

Electronic Music Live Performance format. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/12/169929-the-lure-of-live-coding-the-attraction-of-small-data/fulltext (more)

Seth Godin: The Dip ISBN:1591841666 (more)

I am a geo-hydrologist and civil engineer, having worked in groundwater resources, mining, and geothermal energy. I am currently Global 4C project coordinator and Research Fellow with Project Drawdown. I recently analyzed the mitigation potential and economics of fly-ash cement and low-flow taps and faucets for domestic supply for the Project Drawdown book. My aim is to help solve the world carbon price problem with the development of a new policy framework for money-and-markets called Global 4C (global4c.org). The new policy can circumvent political delay and trigger a socio-economic transformation to a low-carbon future. The Global 4C proposal could be the theoretical 'missing link' for strong climate change mitigation and long run sustainability. My preferred career direction is to cultivate stakeholder relationships through the provision of digital currency (DigiCash) policy and technologies for financing effective environmental services. https://www.climatecolab.org/members/profile/1431031 (more)

My interest is in tools/processes to increase the likelihood of survival/success for a SmallCo of thinkers. (more)

WD MyBook 3TB For MacBookPro - (2020-09-25) Setting Up New MacBookPro. Using Syntech MARK2-1 adaptor between USB-A and USB-C. Dec12: Won't power up at all. Arrange return. (more)

Building user management in WikiFlux so it will be multi-user. (more)

Setting Up Python On New MacBookPro - from (2020-09-23) Time To Replace MacBookPro (more)

When I hit various error messages that make no sense (see Feb07 (2020-10-12) Building user management in WikiFlux), I start to suspect the underlying mess is from still being on Python-2. So going to finally bite the bullet. (more)

A is a B... never. (more)

Arnold Kling on the differences between BigWorld and SmallWorld. The Department of Homeland Security appeals to those of the Intelligent Design faith. It was created under the theory that the reason that government failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks was that it was not centralized enough. What we needed was a larger organization, with more missions and less ability to focus. As a hard-core Intelligent Design believer, Brad De Long believes that DHS could be effective with the right administrators. To skeptics (including many of its employees), DHS is a clusterfxxx no matter whom you put in charge. Generically, Intelligent Design theory supports bigger government. Because you believe that centralized solutions can work, you argue in favor of them. Every time you observe a phenomenon that strikes you as less than perfect - people without Health Insurance, people whose income fluctuates (Income Mobility), people who are overweight (Obesity) - you ring a bell and yell "Market Failure!" You presume that every social flaw can and should be addressed by government action... Transactions within the small organization are based on informal rules and tacit understanding. Responsibility for the success of the organization is shared. Members often trust one another completely and feel intensely loyal to the organization. When a few key members articulate a need for change, the rest of the organization will go along... Large organizations exist, in spite of their awkwardness, because they create or exploit Economies Of Scale.

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Anne-Laure LeCunff: Interview with Conor White-Sullivan of Roam Research. In 2008 or so, I got really interested in collective intelligence. I mean, it’s pretty obvious now with coronavirus that the systems that we have, the institutions that we have, aren’t able to make fast decisions—fast, informed decisions in uncertain times. (more)

What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? She was on the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention’s brand-new, $44 million website called VAMS—the Vaccine Administration Management System, built by the consulting firm Deloitte. (more)

Yascha Mounk: Why I'm Losing Trust in the Institutions. Who should be first in line to get the vaccine against Covid-19? (more)

The Mutualist Economy: A New Deal for Ownership - Ideas - Berggruen Institute. Tracing how federal government policies have worked to support personal and public wealth building across three periods: the First Industrial Revolution of the mid-19th century, the Second Industrial Revolution of the early 20th century, and the Information and Communication Technology revolution of the late-20th century. (more)

Paul Krugman: Stagflation revisited. Nakamura, together with Jon Steinsson, has been at the cutting edge of empirical macroeconomics. For example, N/S made a big impact during the stimulus/austerity wars with a paper using the differential impact of military spending across states to estimate multipliers. The new paper uses a similar approach to estimate how much impact unemployment has on the inflation rate. (more)

Herman Martinus: My product is my garden. I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investors”, the people marketing their courses on marketing courses, the newsletter gurus, the micro-saas homeboys. (more)

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Donald Trump’s assault on democracy. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 2/4: Safe and Effective Vaccines Aplenty. The vaccine data is in. It’s pretty great. We now have six known safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines. The problem is that due to our unwillingness to properly fund the process of scaling up, we are stalling out at about 1.3 million doses per day for a population of 330+ million people each of whom needs two doses. (more)