an atomic argument? see Nature of Truth, Disputation Arena, Claim-refactoring Service, pattern, Triple, Quad, or Quint, IBIS/Dialogue Mapping

Conceptual Designer, Researcher + Writer... I specialize in leading new product development, strategy, and UX research in software tools for creators, learners, and teachers. https://www.brendanlangen.com/

My research and teaching explore systems that support creative knowledge work, in domains such as design and scientific discovery. http://joelchan.me/ (more)

Reading and note-taking app, with focus on PDF. https://www.liquidtext.net/ (more)

A future software platform? An organization? (aka OGM) https://www.openglobalmind.com/ (more)

restructure (esp. Software but not necessarily) - typically to reduce technical debt or adjust the software architecture, or to improve testability, etc. (more)

aka CoWorking? (more)

Pro Ject Crowd Funding site. (more)

Timothy Knoster Framework for Thinking About Systems Change - change requires Vision, Skills, Incentives, Resource, Action Plan; cf complex system, theory of change (more)

In thinking about recovery from Credit Crisis 2008, Arnold Kling has started staying that we need to think of Economic Activity not in terms of GDP (spending) but rather PSST - "Patterns of Sustainable Specialization and Trade". (more)

"field" of studying progress

Monkeypox is an infectious viral disease that can occur in humans and some other animals.[1] Symptoms include fever, swollen lymph nodes, and a rash that forms blisters and then crusts over.[1] The time from exposure to onset of symptoms ranges from five to twenty-one days.[3][5] The duration of symptoms is typically two to four weeks.[5] There may be mild symptoms, and it may occur without any symptoms being known.[3][17] The classic presentation of fever and muscle pains, followed by swollen glands, with lesions all at the same stage, has not been found to be common to all outbreaks.[1][18] Cases may be severe, especially in children, pregnant women or people with suppressed immune systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 8/4/22: Rebound. Another study takes untreated Covid patients who did not get Paxlovid, and finds viral rebound and symptom rebound in 12% and 27% of participants respectively, 10% of the 27% being after all symptoms had gone away. This suggests a strong possibility that all this ‘Paxlovid rebound’ worry is more ‘this is what happens when you are looking for rebounds’ than it is ‘there are a lot of rebounds caused by this (more)

Nadia Eghbal concept: An Idea Machine is a self-sustaining organism that contains all the parts needed to turn ideas into outcomes. ((2022-05-22) Eghbal Idea Machines) cf Scenes, Collaborations, Inventions, And Progress, Theory of Change

Napier Collyns was at the heart of the small group of planners, economists and forecasters at Shell (which included Pierre Wack, Ted Newland and, later, Peter Schwartz) who invented and pioneered scenario planning. Later he was part of the small group who founded the influential Global Business Network (GBN) in California. https://www.triarchypress.net/napier.html

Kevin Kelly on the Scenius concept. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme Creativity that groups, places or "scenes" can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: "Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the Genius." Social Network scale? Scenius can erupt almost anywhere, and at different scales: in a corner of a company, in a neighborhood, or in an entire region. (EcoSystem?) (more)

Process of removing Carbon Dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere is hopes of reducing Climate Change. *Carbon sequestration is the process of storing carbon in a carbon pool.[2]: 2248  Carbon dioxide (CO (more)

Steven Johnson: Three Models Of Creativity. I was taking over as the host of The TED Interview... I thought I would share a few key excerpts from them. (more)

Kevin Marks: The Quest for a Memex. This week John Borthwick put out a call for Tools for Thinking: (more)

River Kenna: Behind-No-Scenes. LotR has great examples of one of my favorite genres of photograph: behind the scenes pictures of practical effects...their purpose isn’t to be interesting conversation fodder, their purpose is to add something to a story, to further the goals of the movie... Hanging around the parts of the internet that I do, I often get a feeling like I’m hanging around at a practical effects convention.... There is really-truly-actually magic in the air, you can see it on people’s faces and in everything they present. But… I’m not really seeing many movies being made, so to speak. (more)