Jan'2013 Christina Wodtke: Personal OKRs. I found myself stuck, unable to make progress in my personal life (more)

Christina Wodtke: One Objective to Rule them All. Getting to one objective is nearly always the hardest talk I’ll have with a team. I called my book Radical Focus and not “A Guide to OKRs” because I believe focus is the thing that makes the difference between excelling and flailing about in mediocrity. (more)

OKR consultant http://eleganthack.com/ (more)

aka gRSShopper. RssAggregator/Weblog Engine by Stephen Downes (more)

Intelligence Quotient: supposedly a measure (more)

Tiziana Terranova: Red Stack. "In a recent intervention, digital media and political theorist Benjamin H. Bratton has argued that we are witnessing the emergence of a new nomos of the earth, where older geopolitical divisions linked to territorial sovereign powers are intersecting the new nomos of the Internet and new forms of sovereignty extending in electronic space (more)

Gary Gutting: Friends Without Brains. Let’s think about a case less dramatic than movie scenarios but much closer to what might actually happen fairly soon. I bring home my new Apple iPal (as the ads said, “Everybody needs a pal!”): a humanoid robot designed to provide companionship to lonely people. (Chatbot) (more)

Gaming live-chat startup Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation. Discord, the gaming (Computer game) chat startup with more than 200 million active users, announced Friday that it had secured $150 million in funding at a $2.05 billion valuation. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Let's Make Things Boring. The idea of pursuing the direction of maximal interestingness was a key principle in the Season 1 essays. But it recently struck me that the opposed principle -- pursuing the direction of maximal boringness -- is an equally profound idea. (more)

John Ohno: Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography. There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Because of the recent 50th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos, we’re getting a fresh batch of them. (more)

How Douglas Engelbart Pulled off the Mother of All Demos. Don Andrews: (another colleague at the Augmentation Research Center) We knew from the onset, based on Doug’s vision, what we were trying to do. We were looking for ways of rapidly prototyping new user interfaces, and so building a framework, an infrastructure, that we could go into and build something on top of, over and over, very quickly. We knew that things were going to change very quickly, and essentially we were bootstrapping ourselves. (more)

StructuredWiki For Situated-software CollaborationWare: see WikiKit, Integrating Linkblogging Bookmarking Microblogging Into Wikilog

by Cory Doctorow ISBN:0765307596: Let me kill my story before I start it, so that I can dissect it and understand it. The theme of this story is: "Would you rather be smart or happy?" (more)

aka Shipping Container (more)

John Cutler: Opportunity vs. Intervention. Product development teams often confuse:... (more)

Klint Finley: 50 Years Later, We Still Don't Grasp the Mother of All Demos. He wasn't presenting a collection of hardware and software, but a system for developing hardware and software—a system that ideally could be useful in other endeavors. He was demonstrating a way of working. (more)

The concept of intertwingularity was celebrated at the "Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson" conference on April 14, 2014 at Chapman University.[7][8] The organizers published a book called Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson ISBN:978-3-319-16925-5 in 2015, with articles about Nelson's work and legacy.[9] One of the organizers of the conference and editors of the book, Douglas Dechow, said "In the 1960s, he saw a world of networked, interlinked – intertwingled, if you will – documents where all of the world’s knowledge is able to interact and intermingle...He was the first, or among the first, people to have that idea." (more)

Probably the central HyperText guru. (more)

Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962[4]) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology,[3] with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief,[5] and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson (more)

someone who thinks carefully (and shares his thoughts) about items of public importance (more)