Dead Film Camera business

One of the Thinking Tools. Within the framework of Skepticism, critical thinking is the mental process of acquiring information, then evaluating it to reach a Logical conclusion or answer. Critical thinking is synonymous with informal logic. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking (more)

Rob Walling started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers (BootStrapping) who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their jobs... I call it The StairStep Approach... (more)

When Life Extension fails

Robin Hanson's wife, a hospice worker, is not very comfortable with his plan to undergo Cryonics. Separate bank accounts prevent her from having to see the money spent on annual dues, and the two manage to avoid bringing up the subject at home. When he dies (“which he will,” Peggy adds), it will fall to someone else to call Alcor and explain Robin’s wishes to the hospital staff.

Sigmund Freud (/frɔɪd/;[2] German pronunciation: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏ̯t]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of PsychoAnalysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

see Geeks With Kids, Educating Kids/Educating KidsInNyc - whoops see also Parent-Hood, Having Kids (more)

Group of people doing Team Work in a Project.

Business Strategy Planning

Henry Mintzberg, OC OQ FRSC (born September 2, 1939) is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968... In 2004 he published a book entitled Managers Not MBAs (Mintzberg 2004) which outlines what he believes to be wrong with management education today... His seminal book, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (Mintzberg 1994), criticizes some of the practices of strategic planning today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mintzberg

unplanned, disposable, transient (more)

Transcript of Bill Moyers interviews with Eliot Spitzer ("Market facilitator", Transparent Society; Every time we have found fundamental impropriety, whether it was the analysts, mutual funds, insurance, pharmaceuticals. And nobody in those sectors, not once, has any industry voice before we found the impropriety, has any self-regulatory body (Profession) stood up and said, "Wait a minute, guys, we've gotta problem. Stop.") and Richard Dawkins (Evolution vs Intelligent Design controversy; Once you understand how Darwinism works, then you could easily see that that's a far better, far more parsimonious, far more scientific explanation than intelligent design... Because I too feel there's something deep and incomprehensible, and so far, uncomprehended at least. But what Albert Einstein was not, and what I am not, is a believer in anything supernatural. Because I think that actually brings it down to a lower level. I think that the level of Einstein, where he was actually awestruck by the universe, and by the fundamental unsolved problems of the universe. To bring that down to the level of a personality who takes decisions, who designs things, who listens to prayers, who forgives sins, all of the things that supernatural gods are supposed to do, I think it diminishes it, and demeans it.).

Duena Blomstrom: You can't have WOW without the WOT. Agile is not project management or software development, agile is a transformative new way of looking at how we do things. All the things. (more)

Why Is Everyone So Lonely These Days? The leading expert on loneliness, John Cacioppo (who I mentioned earlier), has a simple acronym he recommends to combat loneliness. He dubs it “EASE.” (more)

John Cutler: Your Org Problems Are Not Unique. My friend works at a public company with a “15 year old, industry lagging approach to production”. The solution (to get from a 2 to 7.5) is out there for everyone to see, but progress has been held up for five years because “the head of engineering and the head of product have very different views on how to solve this.” (more)

A New Device Can Hear Your Thoughts. In early April, MIT research assistant Arnav Kapur, 24, uploaded a short video on YouTube. The clip showed him moving around campus in various settings wearing a white plastic contraption wrapped around the right side of his face. (SubVocal) (more)

Done is dead – welcome to outcome-driven development - SD Times. Welcome to the brave new world of outcome-driven development. Here, “done” means delivering measurable business value, not simply completing user stories. (more)

GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Rosenstein. The articles include a series of allegations against Rod Rosenstein. (more)

John Spencer: Why Journalism Might Actually Be the Class of the Future. I’d argue that one of the most relevant subjects for developing a maker mindset is actually journalism (more)

Vox Media to Begin Licensing Publishing Technology Chorus. The company is beginning to license Chorus, the technology that underpins the portfolio of sites it owns and operates, including The Verge, Vox and Recode. (CMS) (more)