Davadi Ngai: Carol Ryff's Model of Psychological Well-being. Carol Ryff’s model of Psychological Well-being differs from past models in one important way: well-being is multidimensional, and not merely about happiness, or positive emotions. A good life is balanced and whole, engaging each of the different aspects of well-being, instead of being narrowly focused. Ryff roots this principle in Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, where the goal of life isn’t feeling good, but is instead about living virtuously. (more)

The Structure of Psychological Well-Being — before PERMA. Between 15 to 20 years before the introduction of the (Martin Seligman) PERMA framework, researchers Carol Ryff and Corey Keyes presented a data-driven model that is comprised of 6 dimensions (more)

see Well-Being

Philosophical Life Coach

Pamela J. Hobart: What Is Philosophical Life Coaching? Philosophical life coaching has at least two close cousins: therapy and conventional life coaching. We can rule out what philosophical life coaching is not on our way to pinning down what it is. (cf Existential Therapy) (more)

Jenna Bednar and Scott Page on "Can Games Theory Explain Culture?" They note that each player is playing multiple Games at the same time, and that different players are playing different sets of games, etc. We develop a model in which agents with cognitive constraints play multiple games. We find that the ensemble of games can influence behavior in individual games in ways that suggest the Emergence of Culture. We formally define four components of cultural behavior: intra-agent cultural behavior, inter-agent cultural behavior, contextual effects, and cultural bias and describe when each is likely to occur in the context of our model. We also use our model to demonstrate frequency dependence and behavioral rigidity. (more)

Excellent Visakan Veerasamy thread on how to play Twitter as a RealWorldGame (Reality Hacking). Twitter is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, primarily text-based with limited multimedia support. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online live chat. (more)

Urbanist, Long Emergency writer http://www.kunstler.com/ (more)

I have a fuzzy feeling that AI techniques will become useful for Coaching us in Self Improvement (SimplestThing framing?). (more)

hmm page missing, I wonder what was here back in 2009....

Device or app or Browser Based Ebook Reader for reading an ebook.

I discovered a couple weeks back that Vannevar Bush had written an auto-bio Pieces of the Action ISBN:0304937835. Since he wrote it in 1970, it's out of print and there's no ebook available. (more)

Cecily is a project to use Tiddly Wiki to develop Zooming UI (ZUI) ideas.

One of my favorite authors (I've read every single book below). A big cyberpunk guy, fiction documenter of the Hacker ethos. (more)

at Stripe Atlas https://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/09/09/im-joining-stripe-to-work-on-atlas/ (more)

Patrick McKenzie did some Marketing Consulting for FogCreek this year. Five years ago, Fog Creek was a successful software company. Today, Fog Creek is a successful SaaS company with a sideline in selling downloadable software. This changed the company, but the company didn’t change with it... The website is a shipping software product of the company. It deserves the same level of attention to detail, monitoring, focus, and internal resources that Fog Creek’s other software products get. Revamping the website was only one facet of how we’re pushing forward on marketing. We’re going to talk later about SEO, email marketing, other enhancements we’ve made to our site and products, and a variety of other topics. Hmm, can't find any such updates.

Tim Bray notes Steven Pinker's mention (in Blank Slate) of Donald E Brown's list of Human Universals. Here's the complete alphabetical list, and Jorn Barger sorts it in Evolutionary (Eight Circuit Model Of Consciousness?) order.

Martin Seligman book: see Well-Being

Adam M. Grant (born August 13, 1981) is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology . He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Grant

Venkatesh Rao and Gregory Rader have written a number of pieces over the past couple years about creating a Remarkable Life. I'm proposing using that term to contrast with Cal Newport's views: 2009-07-31-NewportRemarkableLife. (more)