The gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of Gold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard (more)

Gary Wolf on David Allen. (Recovering) heroine addict, (current) John Roger follower, refers to himself in the 1st-person-plural.. what's not to like? (more)

context/role-specific version of Hero? And/or maybe more about vibe than grand achievement?

I gave a talk for the ToolsForThought-Rocks crowd. Now subtitled "Speedrunning 30 years of hypertexting". Here are my notes/links. (more)

from Kicks Condor ((2019-11-10) Condor Hypertexting): Constructing a body of hypertext over time—such as with blogs or wikis—with an emphasis on the strengths of linking (within and without the text) and rich formatting.

KicksCondor on Hypertexting: ‘Constructing a body of hypertext over time—such as with blogs or wikis—with an emphasis on the strengths of linking (within and without the text) and rich formatting.’ (more)

Renaissance Man (more)

Superhero, AlterEgo, SuperPower, RealityHacker, Warrior, Renaissance Man? (more)

EMR vendor started by Jonathan Bush (cousin) of George W Bush) and Todd Park (more)

Paul Ford: I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For? Like many nerds before me, I spent a goodly portion of my life searching for the perfect computing system. I wanted a single tool that would let me write prose or programs, that could search every email, tweet, or document in a few keystrokes, and that would work across all my devices (more)

like the Commuter Bus, without the (adult) predators (more)

term of C.K. Prahalad's book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid ISBN:978-0-13-146750-7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortune_at_the_Bottom_of_the_Pyramid

Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010)[1] was an entrepreneur and author. He was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.[4] He co-authored "Core Competence of the Corporation"[5] with Gary Hamel; and "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid"[6] with Stuart L. Hart, about business opportunity in serving the Bottom of the Pyramid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._K._Prahalad

Brian Potter: Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies. The Ise Jingu Grand Shrine sits in the forests of Ise-Shima National Park, in Japan’s Mie Prefecture (more)

The inverted pyramid is a metaphor used by journalists and other writers to illustrate how information should be prioritized and structured in prose (e.g., a news report). It is a common method for writing news stories and has wide adaptability to other kinds of texts, such as blogs, editorial columns and marketing factsheets. It is a way to communicate the basics about a topic in the initial sentences. The inverted pyramid is taught to mass communication and journalism students, and is systematically used in English-language media.[citation needed] The inverted or upside-down pyramid can be thought of as a triangle pointing down. The widest part at the top represents the most substantial, interesting, and important information that the writer means to convey, illustrating that this kind of material should head the article, while the tapering lower portion illustrates that other material should follow in order of diminishing importance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism) (more)

Aldo De Moor post to Blue Oxen list about Fernando Flores' Coordinator software, which Tom Munnecke refers to as "nazi-ware". The loop consists of four stages (the 'quadrants'): (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 5/19/22: The Law of Five.*Executive Summary (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 Covid 5/12/22: Other Priorities. There is zero funding for dealing even with the current pandemic, let alone preventing the next one. The FDA not only is in no hurry to approve a vaccine for children, the new highlight is its focus on creating a dire shortage of specialty baby formula. Covid doesn’t kill children, merely causing governments to mandate they not get to have their childhoods, but 40% of formula being out of stock is a much more directly and physically dangerous situation (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 4/28/22: Take My Paxlovid, Please. *Executive Summary (more)

sarcastic name for Disinformation Governance Board, taken from 1984