software engineer, designer, and researcher. I work on technologies that expand what people can think and do. (ThinkingTools) https://andymatuschak.org/ Was at Khan Academy, Apple. (more)

cf culture jamming

see College Education, College Tuition, College Savings, Alternatives To A College Degree

No, not that one! (more)

Ben Hunt: Bear Stearns and the Narratives of Systemic Risk. In May 2007, Bear Stearns – one of the crown jewels of Wall Street – traded at nearly $160 per share. The S&P 500 peaked five months later, in October 2007. Five months after that, in March 2008, Bear Stearns was taken out in the street and shot in the head by regulators. The stock closed at $2 per share that day (more)

Ben Hunt: Once in a Lifetime. We will never win this war until we regain our sense of empathy, until we regain our ability to appreciate the pain that others endure in their struggle against this common enemy. (more)

Daemons are good or malevolent "supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes" (see Plato's Symposium). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology) (more)

Vannevar Bush essay from 1945 proposing the Memex. https://www.w3.org/History/1945/vbush/vbush.shtml (more)

Future of Text leader

Frode Hegland: Deep Literacy is required for success in the 21st century but the language and culture around it is still mostly associated with social misfits – read ‘nerds’ – or boring work. However, deep literacy is really about deep self-realisation. Deep literacy is the mindset to excel as who you really are, freed from previous conventions and able to express yourself through getting more intimate with your work through improving your skills. http://www.deep-literacy.com/ (more)

Welcome to the Liquid Information Company, where the aim is to build ever more powerful interactive text interactions to enable a deeper literacy (Deep Literacy). http://www.liquid.info/ (more)

Andy Matuschak: Why books don't work. (Printed Book) The powerful ideas are often invisible: it’s not like we generally think about cognition when we sprinkle a blog post with links. But the people who created the Web were thinking about cognition. (more)

Author of the famous "Memex" As We May Think essay in 1945. (more)

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Bruce Sterling story collection. (more)

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BlendCAC: A Smart Contract Enabled Decentralized Capability-Based Access Control Mechanism for the IoT https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/7/3/39

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