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Paul Campos: Who will vote against American fascism tomorrow? (1) Donald Trump is a fascist. (more)

Midterm election Voting Rant Of The Day: After we drive President Merkin and his minions into the ocean, I can return to snarking about the Democratic Party's split between its Blowjobs for Bankers and Everyone Gets a Pony wings. But for now the priority is resetting the time machine to post-Enlightenment.

Here’s A Running List Of The Hoaxes And Misleading Information To Look Out For Ahead Of The Midterm Election. This post will be updated through Election Day 2018. (more)

Facebook's ad decline continues apace. Facebook is still the second most popular digital player. It accounted for 14.3% of all digital consumption, second to Google’s 32.5%. In third was Verizon-owned properties, which accounted for only 3.7% of total digital consumption. Facebook’s consumption share was 16.5% in September 2017; now it’s at 14.3%.

Slack co-founder's goal: Grow users by more than 6,000% (more)

David Wong: Vote Like The Fate Of The World Depends On It. It's Been Two Years Of Rage And Terror (At Least, That's What We Say) (more)

Steve Yegge thinks the Properties Pattern may be the Universal Design Pattern. Semi Structured Data, Prototype Based. Godel Escher Bach references! (more)

Umair Haque: America’s Collapsing Into Fascism Because Americans Still Don’t Understand Fascism. That part of you that objects, “but this isn’t fascism fascism,” does so because somewhere, probably in grade school, and then all over again in college, you were taught the definition that every American is taught. Fascism is the “concentration of state and economic power.” (more)

This is the publicly-readable Wiki Thinking Space of Bill Seitz. See Front Page for latest entries. (more)

Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever. Hossein Rahnama knows a CEO of a major financial company who wants to live on after he’s dead, and Rahnama thinks he can help him do it. Rahnama is creating a digital avatar for the CEO that they both hope could serve as a virtual “consultant” when the actual CEO is gone. (more)

Jeff Gothelf: What happens after OKRs? So you’ve made the leap to Objectives and Key Results (more)

the Civil War in the US triggered by an attempt at Secession by the southern (slavery) states (Red Vs Blue). (more)

treating some human beings as property with no Agency (more)

Andrew Goldis: Why I quit Amazon just 5 months after I’ve started. I was overwhelmed by online “cultural” trainings about the company’s leadership principles and other corporate bullshit, I felt like I am joining a religious organization and being brainwashed. (more)

Aytekin Tank: What I learned about procrastination while scaling my startup to 4.2 million users. Balancing a full-time job with the responsibilities of scaling my startup, JotForm, taught me a lot about myself. (more)

Jordan Rosenfeld: Lean Product Development And How To Choose The Right Value Proposition. While the MVP is important, Lars said they spend the vast majority of their validation on their product cycle, particularly on what he calls “positioning.” In a nutshell this comes down to: “How are we selling? What is that core headline, that core value proposition…they’re going to get when they buy it?” (more)

Lauren Detweiler of Parker Dewey: From choosing a major to choosing a job: A college senior’s perspective on career exploration. From a college student’s perspective, here are the benefits of doing as much career exploration as possible before jumping into a job: (more)

Steve Denning: Why Finding The Real Meaning Of Agile Is Hard. It has become a huge tent with varied jargon monoxide. (more)

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