Eric Barker: This Is The Morning Ritual That Will Make You Happy: 4 Secrets From Stoicism. The Stoics were big on “the dichotomy of control.” So much of your life is not under your control. You can’t control the world or other people. Often you can’t control what’s going on in your head. The only thing you can control is your deliberate thoughts and actions. So to let our happiness and self-worth hinge on what we cannot control is futile. Ridiculous. (Authentic Happiness) (more)

Eric Barker: This Is How To Rewire Your Brain For Happiness: 4 Secrets From Research. “Think happy thoughts” doesn’t help unless you don’t need help... cognitive therapy (CBT )— suggests that the individual’s problems are derived largely from certain distortions of reality based on erroneous premises and assumptions (more)

I'm going to make a GoogleAssistant interface to CoachBot... (more)

Internet Archive EBook Platform (more)

Venkatesh Rao on the rhetoric of the HyperLink (HyperText, World Wide Web). When you browse and skim, you aren’t distracted and unfocused. You are just reading a very dissonant book you just made up. Actually, you are reading a part of a single book. The single book. (There Is But One Infinite Game) If you start with Marshall McLuhan, as most people do, there are two ways to view the Web: as a vast meta-medium, or as a regular McLuhanesque medium, with nothing meta about it. For a long-time I adopted the meta-medium view (after all, the Web can play host to every other form: text, images, video and audio) (HyperMedia), but I am convinced now that the other view is equally legitimate, and perhaps more important. The Web is a regular medium whose language is the hyperlink. (more)

Bill Atkinson: The Psychedelic Inspiration For HyperCard. In 1985 I swallowed a tiny fleck of gelatin containing a medium dose of LSD. (more)

My software creations include dozens of commercial software applications, including one of the first consumer tools in mobile computing history, the highly successful and award-winning LapLink™ communications application. https://about.me/bill.french (more)

The Untold Story of Jaime Levy, Punk-Rock Cyber-Publishing Pioneer. In the early ’90s, Jaime Levy, a punk-rock hacker chick from Los Angeles, marched into the Tisch Building at NYU without an appointment. The move was part bombast, part desperation: She wanted to join the university’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). (more)

Christensen Institute: Betting on bootcamps: How short-course training programs could change the landscape of higher ed. Bootcamps focused on coding and computer science have emerged as an important pipeline for tech talent. (more)

Christensen Institute: Four lessons universities can learn from the booming business of learning. It’s a tough time for colleges (more)

Christensen Institute: Transforming college into a hub of lifelong learning: Northeastern University’s Level bootcamp. One of the ways Northeastern is answering higher education’s workforce readiness challenge is to build an experiential analytics bootcamp called Level, led by Northeastern’s vice president for new ventures, Nick Ducoff. (more)

Christensen Institute: A closure highlights the challenges of adopting a disruptive strategy. In early 2017, we wrote about the potentially disruptive trajectory of Level, a bootcamp built by Northeastern University (more)

App to run on my Android phones when Android File Transfer won't work. (more)

The IndieWeb folks seem to be aiming toward a replacement for the RssAggregator. (more)

Messaging app created by Ray Ozzie, focused on short voice bits. (more)

Ray Ozzie's new Collaboration Ware app Talko is a little bit WhatsApp, a little bit Google Voice, and a little bit Push To Talk app Voxer. The app lets you text, call, send voice or photo messages, and conference call your team — with the ease of today’s top consumer apps. Every message and call is recorded inside one thread, and you can bookmark specific audio bits or messages so people can return to them later (similar to Sound Cloud)... Talko is built around the asynchronous nature of how we talk to each other today. If somebody misses the beginning of a Conference Call, they can hop in midway and listen to what’s happened, or send a quick text to the people on the call, or listen to the call later with the aid of bookmarks and tags to guide the way. (more)

John Battelle: Maybe Facebook Should Abandon the News Feed Altogether. There was a time, about a decade ago, when for a brief moment I thought Facebook would become the platform underpinning the open internet. (more)

Stripe.com is announcing a new API method called Relay that aims to drastically improve the way both merchants and consumers transact on their mobile device. The service is available today. With Stripe Relay, StripeCom enables developers to create native app buying experiences instead of bringing visitors to a mobile website that often doesn’t convert... Naturally Twitter is Stripe’s first launch partner. Users will see a standard-looking tweet with a buy button embedded in it. When they click on the button, the transaction will appear in Twitter instead of taking them to the merchant’s website. (more)

Starting a company (StartUp) can be needlessly complicated—lengthy paperwork, bank visits, legal complexity, numerous fees, and non-obvious decisions about what services to use. We built Stripe Atlas to make this easy: a tool to handle everything involved in establishing an internet business. It’s available to entrepreneurs everywhere. https://stripe.com/atlas (more)

Ian Bicking and David Heinemeier Hansson on the SnakesAndRubies event that brought Ruby On Rails and Django people together. Meta Programming, Domain Specific Language-s, etc. Hansson has good bits on relative Positioning of different frameworks - I think the Python Web Framework crowd (and every Open Source project) should be thinking about such framing. Bicking explores syntax alternatives and barriers. (more)