Robber baron is a derogatory term of social criticism originally applied to certain wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen. The term appeared as early as the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly[1] magazine. By the late 19th century, the term was typically applied to businessmen who purportedly used exploitative practices to amass their wealth.[2] These practices included exerting control over natural resources, influencing high levels of government, paying subsistence wages, squashing competition by acquiring their competitors to create monopolies (monopoly) and raise prices, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices to unsuspecting investors... Burton Folsom argues that the robber barons were either political entrepreneurs (who lobby government for subsidies and monopoly rights), or market entrepreneurs (who innovate and reduce costs to provide the best good or service at the lowest price). Political entrepreneurs do long-term harm to the economy with their monopolies and subsidies. This provides politicians with a pretext to insist that increased planning and increased regulation is the appropriate remedy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist) cf Gilded Age (more)

Different from the Old Economy. Post-EconomicTransition. (more)

the "canon" - 7 books covering military strategy (more)

Interactive EBook tool-maker. (more)

Some sort of documentation of Road Map for "future direction for product" (Product Development). (more)

Tools for Thought: The thinking tool for building ideas and solving problems. https://kinopio.club/

Tools for Thought: Edvo is an operating system that interconnects all of your data and ensures you can think well, collaborate meaningfully, and create freely. https://www.edvo.com/

free diagram tool - mimics hand-drawn style like Balsamiq Mockups https://excalidraw.com/ (more)

Social Networking service designed around Warrens instead of Plazas (Warrens vs Plaza) to try and counter BigWorld Pathological patterns. (more)

term from Clay Shirky (2004): custom-built software for a small group (Creative Network) - doesn't have to worry about "scalability" of software, nor of community model (e.g. rules can be enforced in the Real World). And can be finely tuned to specific Context/requirements. Strong Ties? (more)

Federal Emergency Management Agency (more)

Kathryn Cramer does a great job of assembling visuals of New Orleans before-and-after Hurricane Katrina. FEMA time. (more)

aka 3 dimensions (more)

eraseable marker board http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000680.php (more)

cf celebrity; I learned this phrase from Marshall Blonsky, who also uses the term Vanna Factor - see his Ted Koppel profile.

Chief Technology Officer (more)

BetaWorks (John Borthwick is hosting an event today in NYC: From the documenting software on the earliest PCs to modern tools like Roam Research, software's paramount value has been in providing people leverage in not just their productivity, but also their thinking. For this edition of Render, we'll be exploring new advancements in the space with some of its brightest entrepreneurs and contributors. Across two days of programming, we'll be taking tours of new projects, learning about knowledge graphs as public resources, discussing recent advancements in AI and ML in understanding semantic meaning of ideas, and of course sharing with one another how we use these tools ourselves. Join us as we explore the past, present, and future of tools for thinking. (Tools for Thought) I'll attend virtually. (more)

a read-it-later app https://readwise.io/ (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 9/15/22: Permanent Normal. the CDC is going to be using the term ‘vaccine-derived Poliovirus’ and seriously, what the hell are you thinking, yes I know it is technically right but wow I do not want to hear the CDC talk about boosting public confidence in anything ever again. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 9/01/22 : Meet the New Booster. We will soon have a new, updated covid vaccine booster shot only eight or so months behind schedule. Given only 30% of America is boosted even once, not many people will accept this kind and generous (if rather late) offer. (more)