The Millennium Project, then under the auspices of the American Council for the United Nations University, started publishing the State of the Future Index ("SOFI") time series, and the research and methodology behind it, in their 2001 State of the Future Report. Ted Gordon developed the methodology and the original algorithm used in the SOFI computation. https://www.millennium-project.org/state-of-the-future-version-19-0/ (more)

Resilience at local-scale (LocalWorld). Urban/Neighborhood (more)

The School of Life is an educational company that offers advice on life issues. It was founded in 2008 and has branches in London (headquarters),[2] Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Paris, São Paulo,[3][4] and Taipei.[5] The School offers a variety of programmes and services covering finding fulfilling work, mastering relationships, achieving calm (mindfulness), and understanding and changing the world (Change the World).[6] The School also offers psychotherapy and bibliotherapy services and runs online and physical shops.[7] The School has a channel on YouTube, with over 7 million subscribers; it publishes one new video a week. The School of Life, founded by a number of writers and thinkers, including author Alain de Botton, is staffed by psychotherapists, artists, and educators.[8] The faculty includes philosophers Mark Vernon, Robert Rowland Smith, and writer John Armstrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Life (more)

Alain de Botton FRSL (/dəˈbɒtən/; born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published Essays in Love (1993), which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997), Status Anxiety (2004) and The Architecture of Happiness (2006). He co-founded The School of Life in 2008 and Living Architecture in 2009. In 2015, he was awarded "The Fellowship of Schopenhauer", an annual writers' award from the Melbourne Writers Festival, for that work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_de_Botton

When building Backlinks natively in FluxGarden, rather than calling the WikiGraph wikigraph.net widget, I left the TwinPages widget behind. (2021-05-30) Updating WikiGraph Backlinks in Real-time (more)

Ron Jeffries: Strawberries 1. It’s not the method. It’s not the framework. It’s your unique assemblage of innumerable small things that work together toward success. And some larger things: the people. (more)

Human Agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_agency (more)

Abhishek Chakravarty: on High Agency Product Management: people that can execute a vision despite all odds and despite all the naysayers around them. (more)

Nick Milo's re-framing of NoteTaking (more)

Taking Notes in a NoteBook - see esp Digital Garden (more)

aka Sustainable Capitalism (more)

the source of initial (or at least early-stage) funding for many companies, especially during the DotCom boom. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 2/3/22: Loosening Bounds. Executive Summary: Cases declining quickly. My people are being let go in some places but not many yet, mostly slowly. (more)

Wikipedia is swimming in money—why is it begging people to donate? The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the non-profit that owns Wikipedia and other volunteer-written websites, is about to reach its 10-year goal of creating a $100 million endowment five years earlier than it planned. Its total funds, which have risen by about $200 million over the past five years, now stand at around $300 million (more)

Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times best-selling author (of Chaos Monkeys) and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok, and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Garc%C3%ADa_Mart%C3%ADnez_(author)

typically government program: safety net, welfare, social security, medicaid, etc.

Chris Aldrich: Zettelkasten Overreach. The basic zettelkasten note taking method is very simple and clear cut. Just a handful of bullet points can outline the elegance and simplicity of the system. This dramatic simplicity leads to some tremendous value and complexity (more)

Tools for thought by Matthias Melcher - http://condensr.de/

Christopher Alexander Value driving The Nature Of Order. (more)

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics and image processing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit