On Cory Doctorow's 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism Civilization' (Automation) (more)

aka Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Jordan Hall: Situational Assessment 2017: Donald Trump Edition. I want to focus specifically on the victory of the “Trump Insurgency” and drill down into detail on how this state change will play out. I use John Robb’s term “Trump Insurgency” here to highlight the fact that the election of 2016 was not an example of “ordinary politics”. (more)

Jordan Hall: Situational Assessment 2018: the Calm Before the Storm. What follows is an update and inspection of the “four front” framework laid out in 2017, this time with a heavier touch of the central (“collective intelligence”) proposition. (more)

aka Jordan Greenhall

Bookmarking for the power users of the web. A privacy focused extension to annotate, search and organize what you've seen online. https://getmemex.com/ (more)

Jordan Hall: Situational Assessment: Right Now. The story of the unfolding meta-crisis (Long Emergency) that we have been watching for the last decade has become enormously more salient over the past few weeks. (more)

single unit of ComIcs? (more)

Fresh links lately to Donella Meadows' identification of Places To Intervene In A System.

Ash Maurya Lean Startup process, going beyond Lean Canvas to StrategyAndRisks board and Validated Learning board. (more)

Yong Zhao, who has a history of saying the US is making a mistake in trying to emulate China school models, has a new World Class Learners book out - ISBN:1452203989 (Educating Kids) (more)

Ben Hunt: Self Assured Destruction. ...a dangerous and utterly unstable relationship with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (coronavirus) (more)

Rusty Guinn: Lack of Imagination. I AM saying that treating the markets like a first-year banking analyst at Morgan Stanley – organizing a model completely around a single key variable – is a recipe for tunnel vision on that variable to the detriment of a million other things that matter. Not just things over some short, ‘irrational’ period – I’m talking about things that really matter to asset prices and returns over extended periods. (more)

Rusty Guinn: A New Gilded Age. ...more important half of Twain’s point. The elegant idea of the Gilded Age is not that it was about prosperity. It is that it was about the narrative of prosperity. (more)

Peter Cecchini: No Free Lunches. We maintain that the recent rally is a bear market bounce and that the correction over the past couple of days is the start of a more sustained selloff. We believe market participants will eventually catch on to the fact that THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES OVER THE LONG-TERM. (more)

Rusty Guinn on Free-Range Kids / Free-Range Capitalism. One of our jobs is to protect our kids. But they must be more than safe to become men-in-full. (Man In Full) (more)

Ben Hunt: Schrödinger's Senate Hearing. Schrödinger is saying that reality is – in reality – probabilistic. That the actual physical reality is that the cat is both alive AND dead at the same time. (more)

Elizabeth Warren: Here’s how we can break up Big Tech. A century ago, in the Gilded Age, waves of mergers led to the creation of some of the biggest companies in American history (more)

need to try and assemble some of my political/philosophical World View stuff together into some context... I'm giving up logic/proof for the moment and just trying to mix-master these things to tie them together (hmm, Diagram Of Effects?). Let's call the below "Claims". (more)

One type of The Family. (more)