book by Seth Godin, ISBN:1591841003: Marketing used to be about Advertising, now it's about Story Telling. (more)

Ron Jeffries: The Fall of Scrum? I’m pretty sure that my Twitter and Slack streams are seeing an increase in the “Scrum should die in a fire” community (more)

NVIDIA and and SoftBank Group Announce Termination of NVIDIA’s Acquisition of Arm Limited. Because of significant (anti-trust) regulatory challenges preventing the consummation of the transaction, despite good faith efforts by the parties. Arm will now start preparations for a public offering.

Noah Smith: Pre-K is day care. There’s an interesting new psychology paper out about the benefits of universal pre-kindergarten education. The results are not encouraging (more)

Mike Solana: Prisoners of Scale Joe Rogan has been a favorite target of media scorn for years. (more)

Steven Levy on Joe Rogan. In an episode that went live on December 31, Rogan’s guest spun conspiracy theories about Covid-19 vaccines, thematically consistent with some previous shows. (more)

Tiago Forte: Case Study: How the Second Brain Meme is Going Mainstream. I recently encountered the very first mention of “second-brain apps” I’ve seen referenced in the mainstream media. An article entitled The Rise of the Tabulated Self: I Saw the Best Minds of my Generation Being Uploaded into “Second-Brain” Apps by Sophie Hagney was recommended by New York Magazine (2021-12-31-HaigneyTheRiseOfTheTabulatedSelf) (more)

Elon Musk wants to give you super human cognitive powers. He told Joe Rogan that his Neurotechnology company, Neuralink, is going to be announcing some ‘interesting’ news in a few months: (more)

Mike Solana: Let's Burn Books. Among acts that evoke a sense of outrage — even horror — in those who consider themselves educated, book burning is surely near the top of the list. (more)

Rival Voices: Conspiracy Theorism. My claim is two-fold: “Conspiracy theorist” is a fake concept; Fake concepts ought to be unmasked, not used. (more)

Antonio Garcia Martinez: GenX marks the spot. Now that Baby Boomers and Millennials have both ganged up to cancel Joe Rogan on Spotify, can we finally agree that Gen X was the last, good American generation? (more)

Matthias Melcher: Inspiring or distracting? Gradually I can tell better which kind of tools for thought do help (me) thinking and which do not. In a previous post I contrasted the ‘sovereign-posture’ app with the ‘clerk’ that Douglas Engelbart envisioned, i.e., the tool that helped augmenting the human intellect. Apps that push themselves into the foreground, seem more patronizing than helpful to me. (more)

Sophie Hagney: The Rise of the Tabulated Self. A rise in personal documentation meant that houses were filling up with bills, letters, tax forms, receipts, birth certificates, recipes clipped from magazines. As these archives ballooned, a new technology rose in popularity: the filing cabinet. (more)

Reference site running Flancian's "agora" server which aggregates Digital Gardens. https://anagora.org/ (more)

NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a scalable, multi-GPU real-time reference development platform for 3D simulation and design collaboration, and based on Pixar's Universal Scene Description (USD) and NVIDIA RTX™ technology. https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-omniverse-platform (more)

simulation of some piece of the RealWorld (more)

Nvidia Corporation[note 1] (/ɛnˈvɪdiə/ en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California.[2] It designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Its primary GPU line, labeled "GeForce", is in direct competition with the GPUs of the "Radeon" brand by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Nvidia expanded its presence in the gaming industry with its handheld game consoles Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, and Shield Android TV and its cloud gaming service GeForce Now. Its professional line of GPUs are used in workstations for applications in such fields as architecture, engineering and construction, media and entertainment, automotive, scientific research, and manufacturing design.[3] In addition to GPU manufacturing, Nvidia provides an application programming interface (API) called CUDA that allows the creation of massively parallel programs which utilize GPUs.[4][5] They are deployed in supercomputing sites around the world.[6][7] More recently, it has moved into the mobile computing market, where it produces Tegra mobile processors for smartphones and tablets as well as vehicle navigation and entertainment systems.[8][9][10] In addition to AMD, its competitors include Intel and Qualcomm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

Ben Thompson: Nvidia's Integration Dreams. Over the weekend Nvidia consummated the biggest chip deal in history when it acquired Arm from Softbank for around $40 billion in stock and cash. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a letter to Nvidia employees: We are joining arms with Arm to create the leading computing company for the age of AI. Oct'2021 update: EU is investigating this, it still hasn't gone through. (more)

Joseph James Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American podcaster, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television presenter.[1][2][3][4][5] He hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast that he launched in 2009 in which he discusses topics such as current events, politics, philosophy, comedy, and hobbies with a variety of guests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan (more)

Joe Edelman: On Planting Fields. Here's a simple model, which can explain a lot of what's going wrong in the world, and what'd be needed to set things right. You can apply the model to many things in life: relationships, products, social activities—even physical spaces like offices and living rooms. (more)