an application/service so valuable to its market that people will buy a bigger container-offering just to get it. (more)

Dan Hon suggests a Firebreak Protocol: A Long-Winded Set Of Meandering Thoughts Regarding Social Media (Social Graph, Social Warrens): (more)

Warren Ellis' Talk at the Thought Bubbles conference, 23 SEPT 2018. It took people a long time to notice that most of the famous cave paintings from the period show sequences of events. That they are in fact sequential art. Some of them were found surrounded by so many stone lamps, which would have burned tinder or fat, that it became obvious that the flickering light would have isolated pieces of the sequence in the viewer’s eye as they traversed the image. (more)

A one-word Turing Test suggests "poop" is what sets us apart from the machines. The Minimal Turing Test asks for just one word, either chosen completely freely or picked from a pair of words. (more)

see Comic Strip, Comic Book, WebComic

Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or in comic books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcomic

Transcript of Paul Ford/Rich Ziade interview of Michael Sippey on Product Management — and Pivoting: the product manager’s job is to set that context of, this is the problem that we’re solving, and here’s who we’re solving it for, specifically, and here’s how we want to measure success. Because if you can set that context and you give the context to the team, the team will produce much better results. (more)

GV Design partner. Co-author Design Sprint book. https://jakeknapp.com/ (more)

Sylvia Paull: The Internet Archive Is Sucking Up All the Good Tech People. More than a thousand people came to celebrate founder Brewster Kahle’s vision of a decentralized web and I was surprised that so many of my tech friends — all brilliant and selfless champions of the archive’s goals — now work at the Internet Archive (more)

After graduating from Yale Law School, Kavanaugh began his career as a law clerk and then a postgraduate fellow working under Judge Ken Starr. After Starr left the D.C. Circuit to take the position as head of the Office of Independent Counsel, Kavanaugh followed him to the OIC and assisted Starr with his various investigations concerning President Bill Clinton. Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the Starr Report, which urged the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. After the 2000 U.S. presidential election (in which Kavanaugh worked for the George W. Bush campaign in the Florida recount), Kavanaugh joined the administration as White House Staff Secretary and was a central figure in its efforts to identify and confirm judicial nominees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh (more)

Starr served as a federal Court of Appeals judge and as solicitor general for George H. W. Bush. He received the most publicity for his tenure as independent counsel while Bill Clinton was U.S. president. Starr was initially appointed to investigate the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater real estate investments of Bill Clinton. The three-judge panel charged with administering the Independent Counsel Act later expanded the inquiry into numerous areas including suspected perjury about Bill Clinton's sexual activity with Monica Lewinsky. After several years of investigation, Starr filed the Starr Report, which alleged that Bill Clinton lied about the existence of the affair during a sworn deposition. The allegation led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the five-year suspension of Clinton's law license. Starr served as the president and chancellor of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, from June 2010 until May 2016. On May 26, 2016, following an investigation into the mishandling by Starr of several sexual assaults at the school, Baylor University's board of regents announced that Starr's tenure as university president would end on May 31. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr

Attorney General under Barack Obama. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder (more)

Tim Berners-Lee: One Small Step for the Web… I have, over recent years, been working with a few people at MIT and elsewhere to develop Solid, an open-source project to restore the power and agency of individuals on the web. (more)

A (big) Nation-State. Or a SuperHero's (or SuperVillain's) ability.

More than Self Control - 2012-11-15-MartinDuckworthToughKimSelfControl (more)

PBS guru (more)

Outrage is a strong emotion characterized by a combination of surprise, disgust,[1] and anger,[2] usually in reaction to a grave personal offense.[3] It comes from old French and meant "beyond rage". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrage_(emotion)

incl FastFood

aka JunkFood

Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books such as The Power Elite, which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the US political, military, and economic elites; White Collar: The American Middle Classes, on the American middle class; and The Sociological Imagination, which presents a model of analysis for the interdependence of subjective experiences within a person's biography, the general social structure, and historical development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wright_Mills