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Personal Development writer. https://taylorpearson.me See Effective Entrepreneur course.

tuition-free (until 2014) Architecture/Engineering School university (College Education) in my East Village/NYC neighborhood (more)

Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking (ASynch) Web Server and Web App Framework written in Python.[1] It was developed for use by FriendFeed; the company was acquired by FaceBook in 2009 and Tornado was open-sourced soon after. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_%28web_server%29 (more)

Malware attack disrupts delivery of L.A. Times and Tribune newspapers across the U.S. Technology teams worked feverishly to quarantine the computer virus, but it spread through Tribune Publishing’s network and reinfected systems crucial to the news production and printing process. Multiple newspapers around the country were affected because they share a production platform. (more)

Instant Messaging app

FaceBook with enforced smaller Social Network? Semi-Social. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(social_network) (more)

The 10 Golden Rules of Building Communities (Virtual Community) That Matter (more)

The evolution of evil chatbots is just around the corner. Thanks to advances in machine learning, chatbots can now be exploited by hackers in order to deceive unsuspecting victims into clicking dubious links and handing over sensitive information. (more)

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)

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)

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)

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)