Venkatesh Rao stream (more)

Venkatesh Rao: The New Breaking Smart. The seasonal binge-able essay collection model though, didn’t work out. Partly because I could not find the time to work on ambitious essays in the interstices of consulting work, and partly because the global events shaping what I wanted to write about were simply moving too fast. The weirding, I freely admit, has been inside my OODA loop for the last 5 years. (more)

Columbia University is facing a scandal over inaccuracy of the data provided to USNews for its college ranking. (more)

Named for Lance Armstrong: If you push people to promise more than they can deliver, they’re motivated to cheat. cf Goodhart's Law.

Andrew Gelman (born February 11, 1965) is an American statistician, professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University. He earned an S.B. in mathematics and in physics from MIT, where he was a National Merit Scholar, in 1986. He then earned his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 1990 under the supervision of Donald Rubin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Gelman http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/

Undergraduate College Education intended to prepare for Law School. (Or, more accurately, to prepare for admission into Law School.) (more)

College Education for studying Engineering (more)

Some David Weinberger bits on leeway: (more)

aka circle.so community platform https://twitter.com/CircleApp https://circle.so/ (more)

With a Mighty Network, you can bring your courses, memberships, and offers together in a powerful community under your own brand on iOS, Android, and the web. https://www.mightynetworks.com/

community run by Anne-Laure LeCunff: Mindful Productivity School for Knowledge Workers... Make the most of your mind. Build a lab for your mind with neuroscience-based content and conversations. Join a community of curious humans who want to achieve more without sacrificing their mental health. One weekly email with mindful productivity and creativity tips. https://nesslabs.com/

The Red Queen is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Lewis Carroll's fantasy 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. She is often confused with the Queen of Hearts from the previous book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), although the two are very different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_(Through_the_Looking-Glass) (more)

Gordon Brander: Open-ended tools for infinite games. Open-ended (generative) ecosystems are where innovation comes from... Open-ended systems generate upward-spirals of evolutionary complexity. (more)

Martine Aliana Rothblatt (born October 10, 1954)[3] is an American lawyer, author, entrepreneur, and transgender rights advocate.[4] Rothblatt graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with J.D. and M.B.A. degrees in 1981, then began to work in Washington, D.C., first in the field of communications satellite law, and eventually in life sciences projects like the Human Genome Project.[5] She is also influential in the field of aviation, particularly electric aviation, as well as with sustainable building. She is the founder and chairwoman of the board of United Therapeutics.[6] She was also the CEO of GeoStar and the creator of SiriusXM Satellite Radio.[7] She was the top earning CEO in the biopharmaceutical industry in 2018.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Rothblatt (more)

Visakan Veerasamy ebook. If you really care about something and you expect to care about it for the rest of your life, it makes sense to strategize somewhat. (real world game) (more)

Framing the Real World as Games To Play. (more)

A read–eval–print loop (REPL), also termed an interactive toplevel or language shell, is a simple, interactive computer programming environment that takes single user inputs (i.e., single expressions), evaluates (executes) them, and returns the result to the user; a program written in a REPL environment is executed piecewise. The term is usually used to refer to programming interfaces similar to the classic Lisp machine interactive environment. Common examples include command line shells and similar environments for programming languages, and the technique is very characteristic of scripting languages.[1]... The most common use for REPLs outside of operating system shells is for instantaneous prototyping. Other uses include mathematical calculation, creating documents that integrate scientific analysis (e.g. IPython), interactive software maintenance, benchmarking, and algorithm exploration. A REPL can become an essential part of learning a new language as it gives quick feedback to the novice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop (more)

a brief/minimum chunk of time to think about something, or take a next action (more)

If I'm continuing to lean into Twitter as the broadcast channel of Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts, then it's probably a good idea to improve the Preview of my pages: Twitter Cards. (more)

Eugene Wei: Compress to impress. Even with modern communication infrastructure, however, any modern CEO deals with amplification and distortion issues with any message.... I hadn't read Jeff Bezos' most recent letter to shareholders until today, but it was just what I'd expect of it given something I observed in my seven years there, which are now more than a decade in the rear view mirror. In fact, one of reasons I hadn't read it yet was that I suspected it would be very familiar, and it was. The other thing I suspected was that it would be really concise and memorable, and again, it was. (more)