Gordon Bell has written Total Recall ISBN:0525951342 about his My Life Bits work. Of late, Bell has eased back on lifelogging. Microsoft opted not to develop its own suite of commercial lifelogging products given other priorities, so he and Gemmell moved on to other projects. (more)

Gordon Bell project, similar to LifeBox/LifeStreams (more)

The actor who could do everything (more)

Switching Careers Doesn’t Have to Be Hard: Charting Jobs That Are Similar to Yours (more)

Netflix is carrying $20 billion in debt. Can it keep borrowing its way to success? (more)

This Is the Way the College Education ‘Bubble’ Ends (more)

A public reference to my aversion to Navel Gazing, esp as relates to design of Collaboration Ware.

Alice is a modern programming environment designed to be a student's first exposure to Object Oriented programming. It allows students to learn basic computer science while creating animated movies, simple Video games, where students control the behavior of 3D objects and characters in a virtual world. (more)

AIML, or Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, is an XML dialect for creating Natural Language software agents... The XML dialect called AIML was developed by Richard Wallace and a worldwide free software community between 1995 and 2002. AIML formed the basis for what was initially a highly extended ELIZA called "ALICE" ("Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity"), which won the annual Loebner Prize (Turing Test) Competition in Artificial Intelligence[3] three times, and was also the Chatter Box Challenge[4] Champion in 2004. Because the A.L.I.C.E. AIML set was released under the GNU GPL, and because most AIML interpreters are offered under a free or open source license, many "AliceBot clones" have been created based upon the original implementation of the program and its AIML knowledge base. Free AIML sets[5] in several languages have been developed and made available by the user community. There are AIML interpreters available in Java, Ruby, Python, C++, C#, Pascal, and other languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML (more)

Ron Jeffries says Estimating is Evil. (No Estimates) (more)

Scientific Wild-Assed Guess

A metric for prioritizing projects, related to Opportunity Cost of delaying a project that generates Business Value. (more)

Audrey Watters: Why Are Coding Bootcamps Going Out of Business? (more)

After having it torrented, Rick Falkvinge is releasing his Swarm Wise book, offering lessons from the Pirate Party, in pieces online. (cf Movement, Swarming, Coalition, Virtual Company, Actionable) (more)

David Schmaltz questions the value of a Shared Vision. (more)

Shared Goal, Shared Mission, Shared Vision (more)

Mark Bernstein notes old tensions between the Ted Nelson/Intertwingularity and Douglas Engelbart/OutLining camps. (more)

John Spencer on Seven Ways to Help Students Embrace an Entrepreneurial Mindset (more)

Design Thinking cycle/process by John Spencer and AJ Juliani http://www.spencerauthor.com/the-launch-cycle/ (more)

Starting point toward a BHAG and Meaningful Life? 2016-03-17-PearsonHowEntrepreneursFigureOutWhatTheyWant