aka State Change, Macro Change (more)

The last mile or last kilometer is a phrase widely used in the telecommunications, cable TV and internet industries to refer to the final leg of the telecommunications networks that deliver telecommunication services to retail end-users (customers). More specifically, the last mile describes the portion of the telecommunications network chain that physically reaches the end-user's premises. Examples are the copper wire subscriber lines connecting landline telephones to the local telephone exchange; coaxial cable service drops carrying cable television signals from utility poles to subscribers' homes, and cell towers linking local cell phones to the cellular network. The word "mile" is used metaphorically; the length of the last mile link may be more or less than a mile. Because the last mile of a network to the user is conversely the first mile from the user's premises to the outside world when the user is sending data, the term first mile is also alternatively used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile (more)

Restaurant take-out that comes to you. (more)

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)

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: 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)

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