when one agent in a Human System intentionally operates in a manner not according to its design. See Systems Of Survival (more)

Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen

UCSF launches SUGAR Study. ...Livongo Health, an Applied Health Signals company. (more)

Self Organizing Product Team for Agile Software Development, associated with Spotify. (more)

John Cutler: The Random Ticket Game. Pick a random in-progress (WIP) “ticket”. (more)

Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along With Stock Price. Amid a plunge in the stock price, ongoing leadership turmoil and critical media coverage, just over half of employees said they were optimistic about Facebook’s future, down 32 percentage points from the year earlier, according to the survey, which was taken by nearly 29,000 employees. Fifty-three percent said Facebook was making the world better, down 19 percentage points from a year ago. (more)

Kaizen (改善) is the Japanese word for "improvement". In business, kaizen refers to activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. It also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics, that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain.[1] It has been applied in healthcare,[2] psychotherapy,[3] life-coaching, government, and banking. By improving standardized programmes and processes, kaizen aims to eliminate waste (see lean manufacturing). Kaizen was first practiced in Japanese businesses after World War II, influenced in part by American business and quality-management teachers, and most notably as part of The Toyota Way. It has since spread throughout the world and has been applied to environments outside business and productivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen see Continuous Improvement

A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once.[1] Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility. Some see CIPs as a meta-process for most management systems (such as business process management, quality management, project management, and program management).[2] W. Edwards Deming, a pioneer of the field, saw it as part of the 'system' whereby feedback from the process and customer were evaluated against organisational goals. The fact that it can be called a management process does not mean that it needs to be executed by 'management'; but rather merely that it makes decisions about the implementation of the delivery process and the design of the delivery process itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continual_improvement_process

attempting to bring Lean Startup mindset to the Enterprise (more)

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

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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)

HealthCare session at PcForum... (more)

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)