John Cutler on 1s and 3s. Imagine that at any given time there is work happening across a series of time-scales. I use a basic system of 1s and 3s. It looks like this: 1-3hrs; 1-3days; 1-3weeks; 1-3months; 1-3quarters; 1-3years; 1-3decades. (more)

Ruby is an Agile Programming Language (more)

designer, writer https://frankchimero.com/

Felipe Castro interviews David J Bland: OKR and Experiments Have to Go Together. If you ever read any of my content, you know that OKR is about delivering value, and that good OKRs measure outcomes and pass the “So What?” Test. The whole point of using OKR is to agree on the outcomes we want to achieve and then let the teams test different ideas quickly to find which ones will work (more)

Nassim Taleb Neologism (more)

Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day. At this point, containment through contact tracing and increased testing is only part of the necessary strategy. We must move to pandemic mitigation through widespread, uncomfortable, and comprehensive social distancing. That means not only shutting down schools, work (as much as possible), group gatherings, and public events, but also making daily choices to stay away from each other as much as possible to Flatten The Curve below. (more)

Ben Hunt: Body Count. The daily body count of killed and wounded North Vietnamese soldiers was, in Epsilon Theory-speak, a cartoon – an abstraction of an abstraction in service to the creation of Common Knowledge. Hey, everyone knows that everyone knows that we’re winning the war in Vietnam. Didn’t you see the body count numbers on CBS last night? (more)

Secure Shell; kinda like an encrypted Telnet (more)

For Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems. (more)

typographer, designer, coder: author of Textism http://www.textism.com/. Died 2018. (more)

a wiki about communities both online and offline: Management, teaching, conflicts, mediation, and some tech talk about tools used for online communities are on topic. (Virtual Community) (more)

Venkatesh Rao ponders whether Nassim Taleb's Hydras will get us through Donald Rumsfeld's Unknown Unknown-s. He considers (Spore-like) Resilience, Survivalism, Transition Town, PermaCulture, Sustainability, and Preparedness to be Pessimistic, and (Hydra-like) Thrivability, Anti-Fragility (see 2010-11-10-TalebAntifragility), Abundance, and Generativity (Generative) to be Optimistic. What is new is the idea that we might be on the brink of a successful theory of Social Engineering. The great hope is that we might somehow be able to put together ideas about anti-fragility, immortal cities and resilience to solve the problems that defeated the similarly-inspired authoritarian high-modernist (a term due to Scott) social engineers of a century ago. The old failure, in the Hydra narratives, is framed as both a moral failure (a case of hubris and hamartia), and a technical failure: (they didn’t understand “bottom-up, organic, open-systems, network thinking.”) It is important to note that no believer in the resurrected social engineering narrative has any clue what ”bottom-up, organic, open-systems network thinking” actually means... It is merely secularized religiosity and a yearning for a moral calculus to confirm an analysis-by-faith.

shorthand for Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems (more)

Review of Four Futures: Life After Capitalism – will robots bring utopia or terror? ISBN:1781688133 (more)

IMACS runs After School programs in math (using Formal Logic) and Computer Science (using Scheme and Logo!) - but no location near me. (Even for Elementary School!) (more)

Disaster of 2020. (COVID-19) The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).[4] The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, and was recognised as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.[5] As of 23 March, more than 374,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in over 190 countries and territories, resulting in more than 16,300 deaths and over 101,000 recoveries.[2][3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic

Taylor Pearson: How to Unlock Your Creative Potential in 2019. In the same way that the middle manager was the archetype of a successful career in the 20th century, I believe that the blockchain individual (2017-10-10-PearsonTheBlockchainMan) will be the archetype of the successful career in the 21st century. (more)

Michael Fogleman: Implementing A Second Brain in Emacs and Org-Mode (more)

Timothy Cook Draper (born June 11, 1958) is an American venture capitalist investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ),[2] Draper University, Draper Venture Network, Draper Associates[3], and Draper Goren Holm. His most prominent investments include Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, SolarCity, Ring (company), Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood (company), Ancestry.com, Twitch, Cruise Automation, and Focus Media. In July 2014, Draper received wide coverage[4] for his purchase at a US Marshals Service auction of seized bitcoins from the Silk Road marketplace website. Draper is a major proponent of Bitcoin and decentralization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Draper

Theranos (/ˈθɛrənoʊs/) was a privately held health technology corporation.[2] It was initially touted as a breakthrough technology company, with claims of having devised blood tests that needed only very small amounts of blood and could be performed very rapidly using small automated devices the company had developed. However, the claims later proved to be false.[3][4][5] Founded in 2003 by then-19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes,[6] Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors,[7] resulting in a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014.[8][9] Theranos was hyped to its investors and in the media as a breakthrough in the blood-testing market, where the U.S. diagnostic-lab industry posts annual sales of over $70 billion. Theranos claimed its technology was revolutionary and that its tests required only about 1/100 to 1/1,000 of the amount of blood that would ordinarily be needed and cost far less than existing tests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos (more)