the non-GUI practice of interacting with a program by submitting PlainText to it, and getting PlainText output (more)

Matt Stoller: Google's War on Publisher Paywalls. I think of it the way Australian enforcers did, which is as a multi-faceted conglomerate whose power comes from its ability to direct traffic between users and businesses. In this framework, Google is not a tech company, but a financial holding company that manages a bunch of different independent divisions. These divisions include YouTube, Maps, General search, Analytics, Ad services, Chome, Android/Play, Cloud, and so forth. (more)

Mason Hartman: What’s Gone Wrong in Schooling? How to train a human parrot.. this is how much of our toolkit for evaluating learning in children works... A child subjected to these protocols will become a complex parrot. (more)

Study finds popular "growth mindset interventions," or programs that teach students they can improve their intelligence with effort -- and therefore improve grades and test scores -- don't work for students in most circumstances. (more)

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Creator of AngelList https://nav.al/

Todd Buchholz says these kids today are the Go Nowhere Generation. The likelihood of 20-somethings moving to another state has dropped well over 40 percent since the 1980s, according to calculations based on Census Bureau data. The stuck-at-home mentality hits college-educated Americans as well as those without high school degrees. According to the Pew Research Center, the proportion of young adults living at home nearly doubled between 1980 and 2008, before the Great Recession hit... For about $200, young Nevadans who face a statewide 13 percent jobless rate can hop a Greyhound bus to North Dakota, where they’ll find a welcome sign and a 3.3 percent rate. Why are young people not crossing borders? (more)

Matt Stoller: Free Our Doctors, Engineers, Daycare Workers, Cheer Coaches, etc. from Fear. One thing I keep hearing over and over from people in different businesses is a sense of fear. Roughly 80% of the interviews I do start with ‘you’re not going to use my name, right?’ This is as true of conversations with cheer coaches as it is of tech engineers, printers, artists in Hollywood, office supply vendors, and software entrepreneurs. People are terrified of retaliation, and this fear is pervasive across the political economy (more)

Matt Stoller: This is Not a Democracy, It's a Cheerocracy: The Cheerleading Monopoly Varsity Brands. Today I’m going to write about Varsity Brands, the Bain Capital-owned corporation which controls the sport of cheerleading. (more)

David Perell: Audience-First Products. The Internet swallows up an increasing percentage of our leisure time, but people under-estimate the economic opportunities it presents — even for college seniors. First, I discovered a better way to find a job. Then, I used the Internet to build my business. What follows is the three-step process I’ve used to create professional opportunities online (more)

Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967)[2] is an American special effects designer and fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality and producer, known as the former co-host (with Jamie Hyneman) of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction.[1] His model work has appeared in major films, including Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded. He is the host of a new TV program, Savage Builds, which premiered on the Science Channel on June 14, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Savage

member of US Senate, representing Arizona (more)

The pharyngeal reflex or gag reflex is a reflex contraction of the back of the throat, evoked by touching the Soft Palate. It prevents something from entering the throat except as part of normal swallowing and helps prevent choking. Different people have different sensitivities to the gag reflex. (more)

For a consumer to figure out whether he's getting the Broad Band quality he's paying for. (more)

Building A Second Brain

Tiago Forte PKM course: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ on building a Second Brain (more)

Course by Tiago Forte and David Perell on Writing As Online Networking. https://www.writeofpassage.school/ (more)

Loneliness, Alienation

conference created/run by Esther Dyson (more)

An open loop is a control loop that has an absence of feedback. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_loop_(disambiguation) (more)