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The sloppy thinking is to consider any Group Discussion to qualify as a "virtual community". Perhaps a better filter would be "would you lend money to a member of that group, or invite them to stay over at your place overnight when they're in town?". (more)

Process in a democracy of selecting political leaders. (more)

Benjamin Reinhardt: Networking for Nerds. I developed a set of tactics that unleashed many opportunities - a stint as an EIR at Susa Ventures, speaking at conferences in Brazil and SXSW, and getting a company off the ground. (I like to think that) these were all built on a door of real value, but tactical network building provided the key. (more)

Alexey Guzey: How to make friends over the internet. Make friends over the internet with people who are great at things you’re interested in. (friendship, interest graph) (more)

Renee Diresta: The Web’s Recommendation Engines Are Broken. Can We Fix Them? (more)

Pinterest introduces Lens, a Shazam for objects in the real world. Lens builds on underlying visual search technology that Pinterest introduced in November 2015 (more)

Pitfalls of Card UIs. Since Pinterest, the end-state of every list view with decent imagery is to become a CardDeck UI. But thar be dragons! I’m here to share some of the pitfalls Paravel have encountered building Card UIs over the years.

Will Oremus: How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithms. Inside the company’s powerful recommendations tool — and its efforts to avoid the scandals facing its rivals (more)

Adam Rifkin: Panda Notes on Happiness and Meaning. Over the years, our wonderful PandaWhale community has taught me considerably about happiness and meaning in life. This post offers a dozen lessons I have learned: (more)

KicksCondor interview with Nadia Eghbal, Re: Writing Hypertext. A few months ago, I stumbled across the essay ‘The tyranny of ideas’ (2019-05-09-EghbalTheTyrannyOfIdeas) and was truly struck by the inquisitive, thought-mashing flow of the writing. (more)

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)