After you've had some experience writing in the ways suggested in the previous sections (of Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems), you'll notice that the same/similar ideas come up repeatedly in your thoughts. This relates to Why Use A Wiki For Your Notebook. (more)

founder of TSMC

see Attractive Charities, Effective Altruism

Effective Altruism is a philosophy and social movement focused on answering one question: How can we best help others? Our resources are limited, so we have to use them wisely. https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ (more)

A new study confirms the benefits of Urbanization. What they found were some general correlations of size and resource consumption that more or less fit the biological organism metaphor, meaning as the city grew in size it required less energy (resources) to sustain it (Energy Accounting) in a proportion called Sub Linear scaling (Economies Of Scale). What was surprising to the team was when they measured Creative output (jobs, wealth generated, innovation) as cities grew (City Size), the scaling of this output was not sublinear, but Super Linear, meaning as the city grew its creative output grew faster and faster... Oftentimes, cities are referred to as its own EcoSystem and many use the metaphor of it acting like a biological organism, Lobo said. But the team found that this was a false Metaphor. "The one thing that we know about organisms whether it be elephants or sharks or frogs, is that as they get large, they slow down," Lobo said. "They use less energy, they don't move as fast. That is a very important point for biological scaling." "In the case of cities, it is actually the opposite," he added. "As cities get larger they create more wealth and they are more innovative at a faster rate. There is no counterpart to that in biology." Authors: Jose Lobo; Luis Bettencourt of Los Alamos National Laboratory, LosAlamos, New Mex.; Dirk Helbing and Christian Kuhnert of Dresden University of Technology, Germany; and Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mex. (more)

Santa Fe Institute researcher on scaling of cities like biological organisms. (more)

Observable is a platform where you can collaboratively explore, analyze, visualize, and communicate with data on the web. In this demo, you'll see how to work with your own data and discover business insights in just five minutes. https://observablehq.com/ (more)

Engagement. contra DisEngagement (more)

Active listening is the practice of preparing to listen, observing what verbal and non-verbal messages are being sent, and then providing appropriate feedback for the sake of showing attentiveness to the message being presented.[1] This form of listening conveys a mutual understanding between speaker and listener. Speakers receive confirmation their point is coming across effectively, and listeners absorb more content and understanding by being engaged. Active listening was introduced by Carl Rogers and Richard Farson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_listening (more)

FastAPI is a Web framework for developing RESTful APIs in Python. FastAPI is based on Pydantic and type hints to validate, serialize, and deserialize data, and automatically auto-generate OpenAPI documents.[3] It fully supports asynchronous programming and can run with Uvicorn and Gunicorn.[4] To improve developer-friendliness, editor support was considered since the earliest days of the project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastAPI (more)

Scott Alexander: Welcome To The Terrible World Of Prescription-Only Apps. Trouble falling asleep? Guidelines recommend you try Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Insomnia (CBT-i). The journals are full of articles begging doctors to use CBT-i instead of potentially-dangerous sleeping pills. Doctors rarely comply: getting patients CBT-i is hard. The usual sound bite is that “there are 60 million people with insomnia in the US but only 75 licensed CBT-i therapists.” What can you do? Not much. Late last year, Pear Therapeutics released a CBT-i app (formerly “SHUT-i”, now “Somryst”) which holds the patient’s hand through the complicated CBT-i process. Studies show it works as well as a real therapist, which is very well indeed. There’s only one catch: you need a doctor’s prescription. (more)

Product Positioning guru https://www.aprildunford.com/ (more)

Michael Mace on using quantitative Market Research techniques for Market Segmentation. It’s better to use quantitative research – at least then you’ll know you have a representative sample of customers. But there are still two major drawbacks to this sort of research, which I call the possibility gap and the blender... I think the way to get past the blender and the possibility gap is not to try to design the actual products through research. Instead, focus on understanding the needs and psychology of the customers, so you can anticipate the way they’d react to new features. (more)

creating a Model of Market Segments (more)

A note that is "about" a single concept. This improves its composability. (more)

Christoph Labacher: Gotz Bachmann's Ethnographic Research on Dynamicland. While it would be inaccurate to describe the Dynamic Medium Group as secretive.. it is obvious that the publicly available information is highly moderated. Little is available on the history, inner workings, and processes of the group (more)

James Somers: The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete. Here's What's Next. - The Atlantic (more)

Softspace is inventing a new kind of tool for thought for thinkers and makers using virtual reality and augmented reality. https://soft.space/ (tools for thought) (more)

Oculus Quest

virtual reality standard format for 3D virtual avatars (more)