Hybrid development is how we give our teams of three superpowers (more)

Jean Twenge: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (more)

I'm going to see Boozy tomorrow night (Live Performance). The show tracks the life of Robert Moses, the man who transformed New York City's landscape in a series of Public Works projects from 1924 to 1968, including the Triborough Bridge, the West Side Highway, Jones Beach, Shea Stadium, and Lincoln Center. The press release says, "With guest appearances by Benito Mussolini, FDR, and the ghost of Baron Von Haussmann, Moses learns from the greats until true power is finally his. Free Mason-s dance, FDR levitates, and Daniel Libeskind silently weeps. None shall be spared.".. Among the principals, I was especially taken by Nina Hellman as Jane Jacobs. Jacobs is the thread that ties together the play's real-world story (more-or-less accurate biographies of Le Corbusier and Moses) and its off-the-rails counterpart (see the description of the Goebbels/Mussolini rabbit conspiracy, above), and Hellman finds both the seriousness of Jacobs's passion for Emergence theory and the camp in the revenge fantasies of a scorned Frenchwoman. Characters also include Fiorello La Guardia. (more)

The four MIT grads who created Zork in their off hours call it “a good hack” (more)

Charles Murray wrote Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality ISBN:0307405389 about Educating Kids. (more)

Cal Newport thinks in terms of having a Remarkable Life (vs Meaningful Life, Authentic Happiness, or whatever). (more)

Michael Ellsberg encouraged Dartmouth University students to Drop Out of the Rat Race, engage in Entrepreneurial Game Playing even while getting their College Education. I honestly believe that all of you in this room could create a job for yourself, straight out of college. That path is open to you. It’s especially open to you given that you’re bright, motivated, and have connections—which I know is the case since you’re here at Dartmouth. You have connections with each other!... Most of the economic benefit that you will derive from having gone to Dartmouth has already been achieved by the fact that you got in. As long as you don’t party too much and keep your grades within a reasonable range, you’re going to get a diploma. And having a diploma from Dartmouth—regardless of your grades—is the majority of the economic benefit you’ll get from your time here... So, given that you either have that stamp-of-approval, or are on your way to obtaining it, how should you spend the rest of your time here? There are a lot of other benefits you can get while you’re here at Dartmouth that have nothing to do with that system... What am I talking about? Basically, anything that will allow you to practice Leadership. Anything that gives you a chance to think on your feet, work with other people, create things, pitch things, communicate persuasively, resolve conflicts, or reach out to other groups that may lend you support... just as I’m encouraging you all to take a more entrepreneurial approach to your careers, if you specifically want a more risky career—like acting, music, writing—I would suggest you take an Entrepreneurial attitude to that too.

Clay Shirky gave a talk on the "Cognitive Surplus" (that has been spent watching TV, and is now partially getting moved into Social Networking, Participatory Media, etc.). (Slack in the Attention Economy?) If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the Sit Com. Starting with the Second World War (World War II) a whole series of things happened--rising GDP per capita, rising educational attainment, rising life expectancy and, critically, a rising number of people who were working five-day work weeks. For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before--free time (Leisure). And what did we do with that free time? Well, mostly we spent it watching TV... However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter... Let's say that everything stays 99 percent the same, that people watch 99 percent as much television as they used to, but 1 percent of that is carved out for producing and for sharing. The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That's about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that is 100 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation. (more)

Medium: Show authors more (love)️ with (clap)s (more)

a way of Making A Living (more)

Roger Schank suggests Redesigning High School for Career Prep (Vo-Tech, Making A Living) via Engagement/excitement. (more)

Dave Thomas is Framing your personal Free Agent Off Shoring risk as needing a Pragmatic investment plan. (Making A Living) (more)

David Wong On Why Your Favorite Sites Are Suddenly Asking For Money (more)

John Herrman: How Hate Groups Forced Online Platforms to Reveal Their True Nature (more)

How to make your chatbot a huge success? Two dimensions and a tip! (more)

The idea of having a native MobileApp render a server-generated web page for a screen, rather than coding it native. A way of leveraging your existing WebApp work in the less-used portions of your site/app (because native is expensive, esp if you want to support both iOS and Android. (more)

Variant of React which compiles to iOS and Android MobileApps. (more)

JavaScript Rich Client FrameWork (more)

Ruby On Rails implementation of PJAX.

Push State + AJAX (more)