In epistemology, rationalism is the view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge"[1] or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification".[2] More formally, rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive".[3] In an old controversy, rationalism was opposed to Empiricism, where the rationalists believed that reality has an intrinsically logical structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism

Now associated with the LessWrong crowd. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page (more)

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of EBooks".[3] It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.[4] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, open formats that can be used on almost any computer. As of 3 October 2015, Project Gutenberg reached 50,000 items in its collection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg (more)

Silicon Valley investors embrace a new vision of College Education (more)

The global brain is a conceptualization of the worldwide network formed by all the people on this planet together with the information and communication technologies that connect them into an intelligent, Self Organizing system. As the Internet becomes faster, more intelligent, and more encompassing, it increasingly ties us together into a single information processing system, which functions like a Nervous System for the planet Earth. The intelligence of this network is collective or distributed: it is not centralized or localized in any particular individual, organization or computer system. It rather emerges from the dynamic networks of interactions between its components, a property typical of Complex Adaptive Systems. (more)

part of Tim Leary's SMIILE formula - macro (more)

Michael Strong and Khotso Khabele announced our new school project in Austin Tx, Khabele Strong Incubator, for ages 11-18. (Private School, Middle School, High School) (more)

Michael Strong says you can do College Prep easily with Home-School-ing (plus $3k/yr for tutors). (more)

Reading and Writing (more)

A pilot project in four California school districts will replace 400 students' eighth-grade Algebra Text-Book-s with Apple IPad-s in an attempt to prove the advantages of interactive digital technologies over traditional teaching methods. (more)

Mike Caulfield: We’ve Made It Ridiculously Easy to Contribute to the Digital Polarization Initiative (more)

the Un-FooCamp UnConference (more)

Umair Haque compares FaceBook's vs Apple Computer's Platform strategies. Yesterday, we saw platforms as mechanisms to strategically control complements. Strategists and economists studied platform wars intensely - with Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano's excellent Platform Leadership being perhaps the reference work for strategists. Today, I think there's perhaps a simpler and more powerful way to think strategically about platforms. Let me advance a simplifying proposition: Platform-s are Market-s. (more)

Similar but different things: (more)

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (/ˈpɪnˌtʃɒn/,[1] commonly /ˈpɪntʃən/;[2] born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon

Locus interviews Cory Doctorow: Bugging In (more)

Residents of The Swiss City Of Zug To have Blockchain-based ID (more)

Amazon is reportedly working on a Messaging app called Anytime (more)

BarCamp for Product Management

Product Camp (BarCamp for Product Management) is going to come to NYC on July18. (Live Event) (more)