Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, and Curtis Johnson have written Disrupting Class ISBN:0071592067 about applying Disruptive Innovation to Educating Kids. (more)

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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier (French: [lə kɔʁbyˈzje]), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture (International Style). He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier

Kicked off: 2013-02-24-ArtAndDesignOfTheLast100Years (more)

The International Style is a major architectural style that was developed in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modern architecture. It was first defined by Museum of Modern Art curators Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in 1932, based on works of architecture from the 1920s... The International Style can be traced to buildings designed by a small group of modernists, of which the major figures includes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Jacobus Oud, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra and Philip Johnson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Style_(architecture)

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Lambda School aims to cash in by upskilling untapped talent. Access to the expensive education typically needed to stand a chance of obtaining one of the jobs of the future. Y Combinator backed Lambda School is hoping to change this, with a model for funding higher education that aims to shoulder the risk burden on behalf of talented students, absorbing tuition fees until each person is in a position to pay — and thereby investing in “underrepresented human potential”, as co-founder Austen Allred puts it. (more)

Jay Rosen: Election coverage (Campaign Coverage): the road not taken. There was a path the American press could have walked, but did not. This alternative way was illuminated as far back as 1992. (more)

Mozilla Java/JVM-based JavaScript (more)

How Keith Rabois Builds Billion-Dollar Businesses: Radical Simplicity. Every Business Is Just An Equation. Once stakeholders have a complete understanding of their company's variables, they can start to adjust the levers that control profitability and growth. (more)

Two Facebook engineers made a tool to cut down on meetings. Now it's a $900 million company. When Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein first built Tasks, they had few intentions beyond creating a tool to help Facebook’s teams manage their work and cut down on meetings. But it turns out their invention would lay the groundwork for a bonafide company that, a decade later, would be valued at $900 million. (more)

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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)

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

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)