Doing some pondering about where the Web Browser may be headed. (more)

the NewEconomy RustBelt. cf Rao 3rd-gen management (2020-09-25) Rao Fifth Generation Management. The Paper Belt consists of four metropolitan areas where several important industries and political infrastructures converged during the post-war era: Boston (education), New York City (publishing, finance), Los Angeles (media, Hollywood) and Washington, D.C. (politics, law)... It came into attention[dubious – discuss] after Balaji Srinivasan's 2013 talk titled Silicon Valley’s ultimate exit.[3][4][5] In the context of the talk, the term was used as a contrast with the emerging influence-structure of Silicon Valley. https://en.everybodywiki.com/Paper_Belt ((2013-11-22) Balaji Srinivasan Cloud Exit) (more)

The Rust Belt is a potentially pejorative[1] term for a region of the United States that experienced industrial decline starting around 1980 (industrial age). The U.S. manufacturing sector as a percentage of the U.S. GDP peaked in 1953 and has been in decline since, impacting certain regions and cities primarily in the Northeast and Midwest regions of the U.S., including Allentown, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Jersey City, Newark, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Toledo, Trenton, Youngstown, and other areas of New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Upstate New York. These regions experienced and, in some cases, are continuing to experience the elimination or outsourcing of manufacturing jobs beginning in the late 20th century... The term gained popularity in the U.S. beginning in the 1980s[2] when it was commonly contrasted with the Sun Belt, which was surging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt

Balaji Srinivasan anticipates a tech-culture Exit from mainstream BigGov to the Cloud. (Exit Voice And Loyalty, Free State Project) (more)

UnCollege was founded by Dale J. Stephens in 2011.[2][3][4][5][6] Stephens is a self-described "elementary school dropout", as he was homeschooled with emphasis on real-world experience for the majority of his childhood.[7] He briefly attended Hendrix College. While there, Stephens had a night-long discussion with a friend regarding the disconnect between the theoretical subject matter taught in college and its real world applications.[7] This discussion would become the basis for UnCollege, which Stephens founded in 2011.[7] In 2010, Stephens also applied for the Thiel Fellowship, a program founded by Peter Thiel which grants fellows US$100,000 to forgo college for two years and focus on their passions.[8][9][10][11] After his initial proposal was rejected, Stephens was encouraged to reapply in pursuit of his work as an educational futurist through UnCollege. His second application succeeded and he was in the first batch of Thiel Fellows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_On#Background

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lots of meanings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer (more)

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built is an illustrated book on the evolution of buildings and how buildings adapt to changing requirements over long periods. It was written by Stewart Brand and published by Viking Press in 1994. In 1997 it was turned into a 6-part TV series on the BBC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn ISBN:0140139966

In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time"; plural tempos, or tempi from the Italian plural) is the speed or pace of a given piece. In classical music, tempo is typically indicated with an instruction at the start of a piece (often using conventional Italian terms) and is usually measured in beats per minute (or bpm). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo (more)

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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/