Going beyond the standard WikiEngine features.... (cf Wiki Proliferation) (more)

Tiago Forte: The Future of Ebooks. My self-publishing experiences have led me to believe that we’re in the midst of a transformational revolution in reading. But it remains to be seen whether ebooks in particular will fulfill their potential in the digital age, or remain a mediocre one-time experiment (Information Ecosystem Roadmap) (more)

Steve Pavlina doesn't use this phrase, but it's a handle I find handy (hah) for a couple of his ideas. (more)

Amazon's rules around matching all-internet EBook pricing on the Kindle can cause a mess, as Jim Hines found. (more)

Brent Simmons is thinking about re-booting Userland Frontier. (cf Language For Learning Programming) Why do I want to do this?... In the ’80s and ’90s, in the HyperCard era, the original mission of the Macintosh was applied to developer tools... making software development available to everybody. (more)

The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.[1] Some scholars date the beginning of the period in terms of sensibilities and political concerns to the passage of the Reform Act 1832. (more)

Silicon Valley’s Singularity University Is Close to Flunking Out (more)

Singularity guru. (more)

In the ongoing WebMD saga, they've now renamed the company to Emdeon with a focus on business services (coming from the transaction-processing business that Healtheon had acquired before it merged into WebMD, limiting the WebMD name to the health-info portion, and done an IPO on that piece (selling off part while still keeping it as a subsidiary). Too bad the content business is still losing money. (more)

see Cargo Cult; magick

Buster Benson's Hall of Phoenixes (DailyWriting streaks): Olga Vorozheykina (#1). It is a great tool for introspection. I’ve had online journals since I was 14, but it was always about expressing myself and at some point it felt too restrictive. So writing 750 words privately was a nice change. (more)

Clothing Design with an emphasis over contemporary style vs functionality.

Mental toughness is a measure of individual resilience and self-confidence that may predict success in sport, education and the workplace. As a broad concept, it emerged in the context of sports training, in the context of a set of attributes that allow a person to become a better athlete and able to cope difficult training and difficult competitive situations and emerge without losing confidence. In recent decades, the term has been commonly used by coaches, sport psychologists, sports commentators, and business leaders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_toughness (more)

Build Habits in 1,000 Steps: Our Interview with Buster Benson - Coach.me - Instant Coaching For Any Goal. Tip: Be patient when learning new habits. Habits are not tiny, they’re large. Building habits requires that you rewire your brain. A habit is not really an extension of your mind as it is an extension of your body in a lot of ways. You’re not just trying to think differently, you’re trying to change the way your brain thinks about things around a whole lot of inputs. (more)

self-improvement? habit formation?

Chronic-care e-health company. (more)

more value-driven than product strategy? cf Personal Philosophy, MindSet (more)

Rusty Guinn (Epsilon Theory): Deadly. Holy. Rough. Immediate. One of its finest books – and a short read, at that – is my first recommendation for anyone who is looking to understand management, communication and civics. The book is called The Empty Space. It’s about theater. (more)

Buster Benson: HOW DO WE CHANGE OURSELVES? (Behavior Change) (more)

Buster Benson: Big scary (and exciting) news! I’m quitting my job at Patreon and taking 6 months off as a test to see if I should more permanently transition from doing the thing I’ve been doing for 20 years (working in tech as an engineer, designer, or product manager) to being a “writer” and, even more generally, a “creator”. (Media Inventor)