Process of applying to a college for admission (entry). (more)

Bought Amazon Fire HD-8 Tablet, because it was marked down to $50. (If I want to kill the advertising on it, that's an extra $15.) (more)

Venkatesh Rao format: My new blogchain series model (300 word shorts) all share a banal, non-screamy name, and evolve as numbered parts. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/03/21/constructions-in-magical-thinking/ MesoBlogging meets TweetStorm? Or a non-spontaneous BlogThread? (more)

For work, I run communications at the Zcash Foundation and occasionally write articles. The abiding question that drives my curiosity: “How and why do people organize themselves in the ways that they do?” I’m fascinated by microeconomics and tribalism (especially weird subcultures). https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/

GoogleApps equivalent of MS-PowerPoint.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a memoir by J. D. Vance about the Appalachian (rural) values of his Kentucky family and their relation to the social problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young... Vance credits his Yale contract law professor Amy Chua as the "authorial godmother" of the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Elegy

Venkatesh Rao: The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial. In a world where actual Income Mobility is both difficult and strongly dependent on luck, but there is a widely performed (but not widely believed) false narrative of pure Meritocracy, it pays to signal apparent control over your destiny, while actually playing by the speculation rules of a casino economy. (signalling) (more)

Robot and related program-controlled toys: build or Hack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot (more)

live action role-playing game

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a Complex System not "overly" dependent on injections of external energy (money), or hidden side-effects (more)

Seth Godin's Tribes book ISBN:9781591842330 is out. The next frontier of Marketing is in leading (Leadership, not Management) groups of people who are working together to get somewhere. Go down the list of online success stories. The big winners are organizations that give tribes of people a Platform to connect. HughTrain, Tribalism, Brand You, True Fan, Subversive, Engagement. (more)

I do consulting work for startups & media companies. https://tomcritchlow.com/

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s07e17: Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and Ethics Testing: There is a thing my brain does where I take a word like, say, ethics and then puts that word next to other unrelated words (more)

Tom Critchlowon Blogpunk. (more)

Brendan Schlagel: Weaving a public web, or, why don’t I blog more? Part 1 of a blogchain with Tom Critchlow on the theme of networked communities. (Virtual Community?) (more)

Forget about smart cities, Playable City ideas – like Bristol’s water slide or its temporary play streets – are a human response to the coldness and anonymity of the urban environment. (more)

Microsoft Intelligent Software Assistant

In computing, an avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character. An icon or figure representing a particular person in a video game, Internet forum, etc. It may take either a three-dimensional form,[1] as in computer games or virtual worlds, or a two-dimensional form as an icon in Internet forums and other online communities.[2][3] Avatar images have also been referred to as "picons" (personal icons)[4] in the past, though the usage of this term is uncommon now. It can also refer to a text construct found on early systems such as MUDs.[5] The term "avatar" can also refer to the personality connected with the screen name, or handle, of an Internet user. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(computing) (more)