Pathologies is synonymous with diseases. The suffix "path" is used to indicate a disease, e.g. psychopath. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological (more)

Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman, investor, government official and politician. Through his marriage to Ivanka Trump, he is the son-in-law of the 45th and 47th president of the United States Donald Trump. Kushner has served in both official and informal roles in the first and second Trump administrations. Kushner worked as a real-estate investor in New York City, especially through the family business Kushner Companies. He took over the company in 2005 after his father, Charles Kushner, was convicted on criminal charges. Jared met Trump's daughter, Ivanka around 2005, and the couple married in 2009. He also became involved in the newspaper industry after purchasing The New York Observer in 2006... He played a significant role in the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, and was at one point seen as its de facto campaign manager. Around Trump's election, Kushner was frequently accused of conflicts of interest, profiting from policy proposals for which he personally advocated within the first Trump administration... Kushner also played an influential role in the Trump administration's COVID-19 response, where he advised Trump that the media was exaggerating the threat of the disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner

Fusion cuisine is cuisine that combines elements of different culinary traditions that originate from different countries, regions, or cultures. The term fusion cuisine, added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2002, is defined as "a style of cookery which blends ingredients and methods of preparation from different countries, regions, or ethnic groups; food cooked in this style." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_cuisine (more)

conferences, etc. - see also Live Performance, UnConference (more)

This Guy Lost 32 Pounds On the ‘Ice Cream Diet’. 2,000 calories a day of ice cream, 500 calories a day of protein supplements, and a bit of recreational alcohol. Nothing more. Nothing less. For 100 days. (more)

How increase the spread of digital garden spaces, esp publicly-readable (outer) digital gardens? (more)

BendingSpoons offers to buy Obsidian. Steph Ango response: I always feel like "hate" is a strong term, but in this case it might be understating it

aka kepano, CEO of Obsidian https://stephango.com/

Evan Armstrong: Bending Spoons is Buying Airtable. At its peak, Airtable was known as a SaaS company that was doing “everything right.” I had multiple conversations with founders, talking about how the business was making an incredible product. In 2021, it raised capital at a post-money valuation of $11.735 billion. This morning the firm announced it had agreed to be acquired by Bending Spoons for an enterprise value of $1.285 billion. (more)

From the Great Depression through now. 2 separate Economic Transitions. (A Brain Fart started in 2009.) (more)

Michael Cole Jensen (November 30, 1939 – April 2, 2024) was an American economist who worked in the field of financial economics. From 1967 to 1988, he was on the University of Rochester's faculty.[1] Between 2000 and 2009 he worked for the Monitor Company Group,[2] a strategy-consulting firm which became "Monitor Deloitte" in 2013. Until 2000, he held the position of Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Jensen (more)

Milton Friedman (/ˈfriːdmən/ ⓘ; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy.[4] With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism before shifting their focus to new classical macroeconomics in the mid-1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman (more)

Steve Denning: Why The Pandemic Of Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Still Raging. The last 90 years have seen several missteps on corporate purpose. From the 1930s to the 1970s, corporate managers embraced “stakeholder capitalism.” (See Figure 1.3 above). Executives were expected to optimize among all the stakeholders—customers, staff and partners, shareholders, and society as a whole. The result? Not surprisingly, we saw many “garbage can organizations” emerge. (more)

Understanding the Most Effective Breathwork Techniques with Dr. Andrew Huberman. Even though cyclic sighing proved to be the most effective breathwork (breathing) technique, all three breathing exercises (others were box breathing and Cyclic hyperventilation) were more effective at improving mood and reducing respiratory rates than mindfulness meditation. This is thought to be caused by the enhanced sense of control over one’s breath that’s involved with breathwork. (more)

Laozi (variously spelled; /ˌlaʊ.ˈtsʌ/, low-TSUH; Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ) was a legendary Chinese philosopher considered to be the author of the Tao Te Ching (Pinyin: Dào Dé Jīng), one of the foundational texts of Taoism. Modern scholarship generally regards his biographical details as later inventions and his opus a collaboration of various writers, with the name Laozi, literally meaning 'Old Master', likely intended to portray an archaic anonymity that could converse with Confucianism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi

15 Ways To Stimulate the Vagus Nerve At Home. (more)

Adam Tooze: Breaking down the Big Mac. The economics of American water. The dismembering of Mali & the history of the pocket. (more)

The Colorado River (Spanish: Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river, the 5th longest in the United States, drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The name Colorado derives from the Spanish language for "colored reddish" due to its heavy silt load. Starting in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, it flows generally southwest across the Colorado Plateau and through the Grand Canyon before reaching Lake Mead on the Arizona–Nevada border, where it turns south toward the international border. After entering Mexico, the Colorado approaches the mostly dry Colorado River Delta at the tip of the Gulf of California between Baja California and Sonora. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River

A megadrought is an exceptionally severe drought, lasting for many years and covering a wide area. There is no exact definition of a megadrought.[2] The term was first used by Connie Woodhouse and Jonathan Overpeck in their 1998 paper, 2000 Years of Drought Variability in the Central United States.[2][3] In this, it referred to two periods of severe drought in the US – one at the end of the 13th century and the other in the middle of the 16th century.[3] The term was then popularised as a similar severe drought affected the Southwestern US from the year 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadrought (more)

Amid Drought, Billionaires Control A Critical California Water Bank. Water prices are soaring in California’s Central Valley, where a quarter of the nation’s food is grown. As the West Coast’s megadrought worsens, one farming company has long been scrutinized for its outsize role in the arid region’s water supply. (more)