see (2013-07-03) Orlov Communities That Abide (more)

Dmitry Orlov series on "Communities that Abide" (started Jul'2013): 1 2 3 (more)

aka Commune, kibbutz (more)

book by Maggie Bullock ISBN:0063042649 about J. Crew (more)

Somehow I missed that FBReader (for Android, at least) now lets you select arbitrary chunks of text to Excerpt. You have to hold your initial press down a bit long, so it's possible I've been running a version with that feature but not noticing it. I've been just settling for the "BookMark the first sentence of the paragraph" feature which is much less cool. You can (more)

Method for visualizing the connections between pages in a WikiSpace, and ideally connections to other wiki spaces (Sister Sites). (more)

to change the color of something to make it stand out more for attention or retention (more)

Color (or colour in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, emission, reflection and transmission. For most humans, visible wavelengths of light are the ones perceived in the visible light spectrum, with three types of cone cells (trichromacy). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color (more)

Earth by David Brin (1990) ISBN:055329024X https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(Brin_novel) (more)

*Learn More Faster: Find Your Bullseye Customer - Michael Margolis (more)

Amy Hoy: I wanna go where the people are… (a LinkedIn story). This is about growth, for Noko time tracking. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky and Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet. (more)

Monday.com Ltd. (styled in lowercase as monday.com) is an Israeli-based cloud-based platform that allows users to create their own applications and project management software.[2][3] The product was launched in 2014 and in July 2019, the company raised $150 million, based on a $1.9 billion valuation.[4][5] The company went public in June 2021 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday.com | collaborationware

Lenny Rachitsky: Identify your bullseye customer in one day. Today, my guest is Michael Margolis. Michael has been a UX researcher at Google Ventures for almost 15 years. (more)

Amy Hoy info-product framing

Visakan Veerasamy ebook. HIGH VOLTAGE LIVING is somewhere at the intersection of Introspect and Optics. It's about "narrative throughput". It involves understanding talismans (any meaningful object) and aesthetics. It's about learning to charge & discharge narrative batteries. Spark Joy turned to 11. (more)

a still-useful Martial Art; see esp Brazilian JuiJitsu (BJJ)

Bruce Sterling's talk at SIGGraph - "When Blobjects Rule the Earth". Neologism by Karim Rashid. Having conquered the world made of bits, you need to reform the world made of atoms. Not the simulated image on the screen, but corporeal, physical reality. Not meshes and splines, but big hefty skull-crackingly solid things that you can pick up and throw. That's the world that needs conquering. Because that world can't manage on its own. It is not Sustainable, it has no future, and it needs one... But they (Blobjects) haven't started ruling the Earth yet. Because they're still too primitive. They're not sustainable, so they're merely optimizing the previous system. They are a varnish on barbarism... Up to the present day, during previous history, we humans have had. and made, four different classes of possible objects. These classes of objects are called, in order of their historical appearance, Artifacts, Machines, Products, and Gizmos... Gizmos are made and used by end-users... An end-user is the historically evolved version of a consumer... Blobjects tend to be a subset of the class of Gizmos... A Gizmo is not manufacturable by any centrally planned society. A Gizmo is something like a Product, but instead of behaving predictably and sensibly for a Mass Market of obedient consumers, a Gizmo is an open-ended tech development project (Platform)... The true signs of a Gizmo are that it has a short lifespan and more functionality crammed into it than you will ever use or understand... Now, I could redesign this Gizmo to make it into a simple Product. But then this Gizmo would become a commodity... So there are good reasons why a Gizmo is almost impossible to use. It's because a Gizmo is delicately poised between commodity and chaos... The next stage is an object that does not exist yet. It needs a noun, so that we can think about it. We can call it a "Spime," which is a neologism for an imaginary object that is still speculative. A Spime also has a kind of person who makes it and uses it, and that kind of person is somebody called a "Wrangler.".. A true Spime is going to get ahead of the curve by bringing you inside the tent of the designers and developers and engineers, and the sales and marketing people. Wranglers are the class of people willing to hassle with Spimes. And it is a hassle. An enormous hassle. But its a fruitful hassle... This is not a vision of utopia. This is a historical thesis... Are there dark sides to this vision? Oh yes indeed.... Steve Jobs has neuroendocrinal pancreatic cancer. That's because, like everybody else in the world, like you and like me, Steve Jobs is carrying a load of carcinogens in his flesh. Silicon Valley, as an industrial clean-up site, is rather well known for its mutagens... We need ways to keep these substances organized and contained, and, eventually, designed out of the production system entirely... We live in debris and detritus because of our ignorance. That ignorance is no longer technically necessary. (shades of Bucky Fuller)

It's official: dapulse is now monday.com. When Roy and Eran co-founded dapulse back in 2014, they were determined to create a new kind of management tool. They spoke with hundreds of people about the challenges they face at work, and then built a product that’s intuitive, non-imposing, and fast—a tool that teams love to use. (more)

Genius for Scenes (Subcultures)? Brian Eno term. (more)