travelling every day between The Family and your DayJob (and 3rd point - shopping?) (more)

Ron Jeffries reference to fact that most software developers are working on boring stuff, under industrial age culture/conditions (what's the mental equivalent of Black Lung?). Alternatives: Media Inventor; become MicroIsv with the Means of Production; Professional framing....

Ron Jeffries: The Agile Ecology. There is a connection between the 17 old men who had a meeting in Snowbird, and the poor devils working in the code mines of insurance companies in Ohio, suffering under the heel of the boot of the draconian sons of expletives who imposed a bastardized version of something called Scrum on them. We started this thing and we should at least feel sad that it has sometimes gone so far off the rails. And we should do what we can to keep it from going more off the rails, and to help some people get back on the rails. (more)

Robin Sloan self-description. It turns out a Media inventor feels compelled to make the content and the container. Does WikiLog count? WikiEbook? (more)

In economics and sociology, the means of production are physical, non-human inputs used for the production of economic value, such as facilities, machinery, tools,[1] infrastructural capital and natural capital. The means of production includes two broad categories of objects: instruments of labor (tools, factories, infrastructure, etc.) and subjects of labor (natural resources and raw materials). If creating a good, people operate on the subjects of labor, using the instruments of labor, to create a product; or, stated another way, labour acting on the means of production creates a good.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_production (more)

Turning VideoGames into Spectator Sports for the bukz.

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All We Want to Do Is Watch Each Other Play VideoGames. Content farms are spinning up in Los Angeles, where managers now see gamers as some peculiar new form of famous person to cultivate — half athlete, half influencer. And much of it is powered by the obsession with one game: Fortnite. Over the last month, people have spent more than 128 million hours on Twitch just watching other people play Fortnite, the game that took all the best elements of building, shooting and survival games and merged them into one. (more)

Hugh C. Howey (born 1975) is an American writer, known best for the science fiction series Silo (incl Wool), part of which he published independently through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing system.[1][2] Howey was raised in Monroe, North Carolina and before publishing his books, he worked as a book store clerk, yacht captain, roofer, and audio technician.... He began the series in 2011... In mid-2015, Howey gave up his home in Florida, and moved to St Francis Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He commissioned the construction of a sailing catamaran, on which he plans to live and sail the world while he continues to write. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Howey (more)

author: Lolita, Pale Fire, Bend Sinister, Laughter In The Dark, Speak Memory, others... (more)

HealthJoy raises $12.5M Series B to help employees make the most of their healthcare benefits. Healthcare in the United States is so complicated that even employees with good benefits might have a hard time navigating their options. HealthJoy wants to help with a health benefits platform that uses AI to answer questions. The Chicago-based startup announced today that it has raised $12.5 million in Series B. (more)

basic "number sense", comfort at manipulating numbers (more)

OReilly EBook publishing platform (more)

The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords and other names) were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s... On 14 May 1992, the KLF announced their immediate retirement from the music industry and the deletion of their back catalogue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF (more)

Brain Magick: Exercises in Meta-Magick and Invocation by Philip Farber ISBN:0738729264 (more)

Self Improvement via Stress Reduction? (more)

when a Project fails (to meet the expectations of the Gold Owner or Goal Donor?) (more)

Coaching ChatBot: 2014-07-06-AiAssistedCoaching (more)

an open and decentralised application Platform. For comparison, perhaps imagine a bastardised mix between Git, FaceBook, UNIX, IRC, Google App Engine, Xanadu and Wikis. (more)

trilogy of large novels by Neal Stephenson: Quick Silver, The Confusion, The System Of The World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle (more)