Try before you buy. (more)

Jun27 Outcomes over Outputs (more)

Daniel Tenner summarizes Aaron Dignan's description of 3 new Organization Models. (more)

I'm not sure I'm convinced that the outcome-improvements found here (in College Education Graduation Rate-s) are sticky (e.g. extend out to the post-college Real World), but still, the idea of automated/online Brief Therapy smells related to Intelligent Software Assistant Habit-change efforts... (more)

Typically a software application which supports searching of a collection of semi-structured documents. These could be: (more)

GeePawHill on Technical Debt and Culture: it seems to me that a very great deal of “agile” advice has an implicit prefix, “assuming your team is close to healthy,” you should... the assumption of reasonable health just – to put it as gently as i can manage – doesn’t seem like the sort of assumption we should be making. (Agile Software Development) (more)

by Ron Jeffries on Agile Software Development ISBN:1941222374 (more)

Ron Jeffries: It came to pass that in those days, Kent Beck said that when he defined XP, he took some good practices and turned the dials up to eleven (WikiWikiWeb:GoesToEleven). Looking at the Agile Manifesto, it seems to me and to Chet Hendrickson that folks often don't even turn the dials up to seven... At some point, Chet mentioned Al Smith's saying that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy, and we suspect that the cure for the evils of "Dark Agile" would be more Real Agile™️. So what if we turned the dials to Twelve™️? (more)

Tiago Forte: The Story Behind Building a Second Brain. I first started taking notes on a computer at the age of 22, when I came down with a mysterious illness in college (more)

Aaron Z Lewis: A mediocre Ribbonfarm starter guide. (more)

Robin Sloan: Week 25, running a ladder factory. John August is a screenwriter (more)

One Diagram To Mind Them All: Hyperspace in the 1970s. Earlier this year on 13 April, Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map, a world famous visual device for organizing thought and developing ideas, died at 76. (more)

The HTC Vive is a virtual reality headset developed by HTC and Valve Software. The headset uses "room scale" tracking technology, allowing the user to move in 3D space and use motion-tracked handheld controllers to interact with the environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Vive

very popular MMORPG/Virtual World/Virtual Community (more)

Jay Rosen: Key steps in the citizens agenda style of campaign coverage. WBUR collaborates on election coverage with New Hampshire Public Radio, which attended the meeting as well. For an academic, the opportunity to float an alternative model to people who could soon put it into practice is not something you turn down. (more)

Jon Li ponders an Audio/EarBud Inter Face. (more)

A hack for Self Improvement in sticking to new habits is visually tracking "Streaks" of days that you successfully follow them. Giles Bowkett has mentioned that as a key technique of his many times, HealthMonth is using it, and Streak Ly is based on it.

Ben Brooks ponders what he wants in Project Collaboration Ware, triggered by his current experience with GlassBoard, Quip, SlackCom, and BaseCamp. (more)

Some systems try to support it (e.g. EMail and NNTP), but most users don't take advantage. (more)

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