John Cutler: 15 Things You Should Know About Product Managers (more)

Tiago Forte: A Vision for Escola Pura (more)

Private Messages Are the New (Old) Social Network. ...tiring habit of posting regular updates to Facebook and Instagram. Over the past year I’ve found myself thinking not about quitting social networks, but about redefining them. For me, that process has involved a lot more private messaging. (GroupMessaging) (more)

A special case of Quarterly Review?

Venkatesh Rao: How to Ride Your Brain Bicycle (more)

Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality guru (more)

On Sandbox VR. Billions of people around the world watch movies and television (more)

Facebook's WhatsApp limits users to five text forwards to curb rumors. Previously, a WhatsApp user could forward a message to 20 individuals or groups. The limit of five is in expansion of a measure WhatsApp put in place in India in July after the spread of rumors on social media led to killings and lynching attempts.

Condé Nast Rolling Out Paywall for Remaining Brands. In a memo to staff, Sauerberg called the move the “next phase” of a strategy that started in 2014, with a paywall for The New Yorker, only adding WiredMag and Vanity Fair since. (more)

The Death of a Dreamer. At school, back in North Carolina, Austen Heinz had been bullied, sometimes badly—the combination of his physical slightness and social illiteracy had seen to that. (more)

aka Free Market, aka Capitalism (not State Capitalism, Corporate Capitalism, Corporate Welfare) (more)

a system which includes at least one human, ergo a Complex System

A rule in a game. Most Human Systems can be thought of as games. Ergo most "laws" we run across should at least on occasion be thought of as game-rules as arbitrary as any in a fun-game like Monopoly, tic-tac-toe, dodge-ball, or Mutually Assured Destruction. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Elderblog Sutra: 1. An elder game tends to be more open-ended than the nominal game. In the ideal case, it is a mature infinite game that can go on indefinitely. (more)

aka Single-Sign-On

A state university system in the United States is a group of public universities supported by an individual state, or a similar entity such as the District of Columbia. These systems constitute the majority of public-funded universities in the country. Each state supports at least one such system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_university_system (more)

David Perell Notorious Netflix. In the past two months, Netflix has launched four viral hits: Bird Box , Fyre Fraud, You, and Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Each release has a different takeaway. Together, they illustrate Netflix’s influence over Hollywood and American culture. (more)

Ken Baumann: the Renaissance Man! After he quit acting, he and his wife moved to Santa Fe. He began studies at St. John’s College, from which he graduated last May. Ken single-handedly founded Sator Press. He is a writer, author and book designer as well as a husband, a friend and so much more. He was even a high school teacher for six months (more)

What Is A Project? An arbitrary collection of activities? It's definitely a Model (or the result of a Model; a Social Fiction). (more)

teacher, writer http://www.spencerauthor.com/