Jay Rosen: A current list of my top problems in pressthink, Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. 1. Absent some kind of creative intervention, 2020 (presidential election) campaign coverage looks will be the same as it ever was...

book by Carl Oglesby ISBN:0425034933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Oglesby (more)

Akai Midi Wind Controller (more)

It's time to replace my MacBookPro. (more)

indieweb.social is a Mastodon instance that has (semi?)open sign-ups so anyone (like beyond the community) might have an account there, and was started with the intent of adding and enabling IndieWeb standards as proof of how Mastodon could federate with sites in general, beyond other Mastodon sites. https://indieweb.org/indieweb.social

twist from ShitPosting. Nov17'2020 - someone on a list was talking about how a graph view was helping them tighten each of a bundle of notes before they pulled it together into a piece to Publish, and I said I preferred ShitNoding, not expecting any Digital Garden node to ever be Done. Publish Then Filter.

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The unitary executive theory is a theory of United States constitutional law which holds that the (US President) possesses the power to control the entire executive branch. The doctrine is rooted in Article Two of the US Constitution, which vests "the executive power" of the United States in the President. Although that general principle is widely accepted, there is disagreement about the strength and scope of the doctrine.[1] It can be said that some favor a "strongly unitary" executive, while others favor a "weakly unitary" executive. The former group argue, for example, that US Congress's power to interfere with intra-executive decision-making (such as firing executive branch officials) is limited, and that the President can control policy-making by all executive agencies within the limits set for those agencies by Congress. Still others agree that the Constitution requires a unitary executive, but believe this to be harmful, and propose its abolition by constitutional amendment.[2] Plural executives exist in several states where, in contrast to the federal government, executive officers such as lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, secretary of state, and others, are elected independently of the state's governor. The Executive Branch of the Texan state government is a textbook example of this type of executive structure. Another type of plural executive, used in Japan, Israel, and Sweden, though not in any US state, is one in which a collegial body composes the executive branch – however, that collegial body does not comprise multiple members elected in elections, but is rather more akin to the US Cabinet or UK Cabinet in formation and structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory (more)

Rusty Guinn: A Tale of Two Cults. The cult of Uri Geller should have died on August 1st, 1973. (more)

His Writing Radicalized Young Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them. Set the first and last books in Cory Doctorow’s epic, three-book Little Brother cypherpunk saga side by side, and they read a bit like a creative writing master class on telling two starkly opposite stories from the same prompt. The common premise: Islamist terrorists bomb the Bay Bridge. Thousands die. The Department of Homeland responds by turning San Francisco into a fascist, total-surveillance police state (more)

Sascha Fast: Backlinking (Backlinks) Is Not Very Useful -- Often Even Harmful. To me, there is a lot of emphasis on connecting notes and very little on connecting knowledge. My response to the below: (more)

Jared Pereira: 45: Documents and Programs. In this application, though, you’re not only interacting with text documents, there are also programs. These are special documents that are are dynamic. They change based on some internal state. You can modify that state by sending the document messages. (more)

author of Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution ISBN:1578518520 (more)

Zettelkasten junkie - https://zettelkasten.de/

Kev Quirk: Removing Support For The IndieWeb. I recently redesigned this website. When I did, I removed all of the IndieWeb functionality from it. (more)

Future liability owed on a Product/Project because of short-term-focused Decision Making. Or changing reality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt (more)

series of books by Walter Jon Williams - (more)

Body of thought on how-to-think. But heavily focused on business activities. By Eli Goldratt. (more)

Clarke Ching: Lesson One - Winston Churchill. Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty (in 1911) and instructed to prepare the navy to win a war against Germany. (more)