The pharyngeal reflex or gag reflex is a reflex contraction of the back of the throat, evoked by touching the Soft Palate. It prevents something from entering the throat except as part of normal swallowing and helps prevent choking. Different people have different sensitivities to the gag reflex. (more)

For a consumer to figure out whether he's getting the Broad Band quality he's paying for. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Against Waldenponding. How to Actually Manage Attention Without Smashing Your Phone and Retreating to a Log Cabin (more)

Steven Johnson book, ISBN:978-1-59448-771-2 (more)

Building A Second Brain

Tiago Forte PKM course: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ on building a Second Brain (more)

Course by Tiago Forte and David Perell on Writing As Online Networking. https://www.writeofpassage.school/ (more)

Amazon rule to keep teams as Small Teams. (more)

Thinking about stages of hiring/organizing Product Development team in a StartUp, from 0 up to maybe 20 product people (meaning all product-tech, design, marketing). (more)

going beyond UnSchooling to repairing the damage done by Schooling... maybe everyone should get this after they graduate from their last school (more)

In epistemology, and more specifically, the sociology of knowledge, reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect, especially as embedded in human belief structures. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a relationship in which neither can be assigned as causes or effects. (more)

Loneliness, Alienation

for Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems (more)

conference created/run by Esther Dyson (more)

An open loop is a control loop that has an absence of feedback. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_loop_(disambiguation) (more)

Stanley Milgram study, pushing people to administer shocks to subjects. (more)

FourGW thinker - But in 1976 I began the debate over maneuver warfare that became a central part of the military reform movement of the 1970s and 1980s. The U.S. MarineCorps finally adopted maneuver warfare as doctrine in the late 80s (I wrote most of their new tactics manual). (more)

Tim Wu is an American academic who ran unsuccessfully in the 2014 Democratic primary for lieutenant governor of the state of New York. He is best known for coining the phrase network neutrality (Net Neutrality) in his paper "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination",[3] and popularizing the concept thereafter, leading in part to the 2010 passage of a federal Net Neutrality rule.[4][5][6] Wu has also made significant contributions to wireless communications policy, most notably with his "CarterFone" proposal.[7] Wu is a scholar of the media and technology industries, and his academic specialties include antitrust, copyright, and telecommunications law. In 2013, Wu was named to National Law Journal's "America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers." Additionally, Wu was named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006, and in 2007 Wu was named one of Harvard University's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine.[1] His book The Master Switch was named among the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine,[8] Fortune magazine,[9] Publishers Weekly,[10] and other publications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu (more)

Existential therapy - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_therapy Instead of regarding human experiences such as anxiety, alienation and depression as implying the presence of mental illness, existential psychotherapy sees these experiences as natural stages in a normal process of human development and maturation. In facilitating this process of development and maturation, existential psychotherapy involves a philosophical exploration of an individual's experiences stressing the individual's freedom and responsibility to facilitate a higher degree of meaning and well-being in his or her life (more)

Existentialism (/ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm/)[1] is a tradition of philosophical enquiry which takes as its starting point the experience of the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual.[2] It is associated mainly with certain 19th- and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,[3][4][5] shared the belief in that beginning of philosophical thinking. While the predominant value of existentialist thought is commonly acknowledged to be freedom, its primary virtue is authenticity.[6] In the view of the existentialist, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential angst" (or variably, existential attitude, dread, etc.), or a sense of disorientation, confusion, or dread in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.[7] Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism (more)