Dissatisfied with my Amazon Fire purchase due to its lack of app support, I took advantage of the CostCo price to buy to buy a GalaxyTab. (more)

Tablet. (more)

UnSchooling/DeSchooling book by Grace Llewelyn - ISBN:0962959170 http://gracellewellyn.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teenage_Liberation_Handbook (more)

Robert Kegan (born August 24, 1946) is an American developmental psychologist, author, and consultant. He was the William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he taught for forty years until his retirement in 2016.[1] Additionally he was the Educational Chair for the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education and the Co-director for the Change Leadership Group.[2] He is a licensed psychologist and practicing therapist, has lectured widely to professional and lay audiences, and consults in the area of professional development and organization development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan Books: Evolving Self, In Over Our Heads, How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work, An Everyone Culture.

What differences are associated with a MetaTag Tagsonomy compared to Free Text? (more)

DeskTop Metaphor for UI: "windows, icons, menus, pointer" GUI (more)

aka Andy VanDam

Ted Nelson has a new manifesto called Trans Literature with a new software spec called Trans Lit. At this point I'm too bored with him to try and figure out whether any of this is different from his earlier stuff. (more)

Android Messages will be new default Texting app Google wants you to use (more)

The Curious Comeback of the Dreaded QR Code (more)

SMS Replacement is Exposing Users to Text, Call Interception Thanks to Sloppy Telecos. The Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard is essentially the replacement for SMS. (more)

Billion Dollar Startup 2012-11-15-BillionDollarStartups - Start Up - named after mythical/magical creature (more)

Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) was the philosophical study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science. It is considered to be the precursor of natural science... Isaac Newton's book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), whose title translates to "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", reflects the then-current use of the words "natural philosophy", akin to "systematic study of nature". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy (more)

Assessment of Mental health, Well-Being, etc. (more)

Don't like Facebook? Try building your own social network. Host Molly Wood spoke with Darius Kazemi, a programmer and artist who recently wrote a guide to building your own small-scale social media network - see related 2019-07-09-TiredOfTodaysPlatformsRunYourOwnSocialMediaNetwork (more)

Sonya Mann is running a workshop on Writing as a vehicle to build Scenius: the theory and practice of participation in real social networks. It is a survey and writing workshop that is a proof-of-concept for its own thesis - that friends can help each other bootstrap insight-generation (sense-making) and influence. (WritingAsOnlineNetworking, (Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts) (more)

Buster Benson: Transforming My Simple Daily Habit into $20,000 per Month - Indie Hackers. 750 Words is a site that I built on a whim in 2009, and it's still going strong. It turns 10 years old this December! It's a site that allows you to practice a daily habit of private journaling. (DailyWriting) (more)

Private-DailyWriting site built by Buster Benson in 2009. https://750words.com/ (more)

ability to "handle" a change/perturbation (even a Black Swan?) (more)

author, Influence (Marketing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini (more)