a partner in SVPG (Martin Cagan) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathonmoore https://twitter.com/moorej

War on Drugs, War on Terror.... see Quagmire (see also Theater)

GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions[3] (GNU Guile) is the preferred extension language system for the GNU Project[4] and features an implementation of the programming language Scheme. Its first version was released in 1993.[1] In addition to large parts of Scheme standards, Guile Scheme includes modularized extensions for many different programming tasks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile

Racket is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language and a multi-platform distribution that includes the Racket language, compiler, large standard library, IDE, development tools, and a set of additional languages including Typed Racket (a sister language of Racket with a static type-checker), Swindle, FrTime, Lazy Racket, R5RS & R6RS Scheme, Scribble, Datalog, Racklog, Algol 60 and several teaching languages. The Racket language is a modern dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. It is designed as a platform for programming language design and implementation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. It is known as the "Wizard Book" in hacker culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs Originally based on Scheme; 2022 version is based on JavaScript. See WikiWikiWeb:StructureAndInterpretationOfComputerPrograms (more)

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Richard Feynman process of learning and problem solving and innovation (cf Grand Challenge, Working Question) (more)

Tiago Forte: How to Thrive in a World of Uncertainty (VUCA). The future has become so uncertain that goals are now obsolete. (no-goals) (more)

Nate Eliason: The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas. ...people approach idea generation like baking or cooking, a precise practice that you can squeeze into a 50-minute meeting block or a daily regiment of “write down 10 ideas.” But brines don’t care about your 50-minute meeting block. They bubble when they’re ready (more)

Ibrahim Bashir: Writing is Building. I’ve been thinking recently about what I’m building with this newsletter. More and more, I find myself treating it like a product (more)

Integrating LinkBlog, BookMark, MicroBlogging Into WikiLog... (more)

There are some services being created to help families coordinate caregiving for someone who's getting too old (Senior) to care for themselves, or who has a Chronic illness. (more)

a PayPal founder; founded Tesla Motors and Space X. 2022: bought Twitter, taking it private (LBO) (more)

Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social network. It is an open protocol that can support many clients, just like email. https://www.farcaster.xyz/ (more)

microblog.pub - A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog. https://docs.microblog.pub/ (more)

Dan Hon: s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More. Here’s the inevitable thinking about The Next Phase Of Social Networking [sic]. (more)

Hometown: a Mastodon fork created by Darius Kazemi https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown (more)

PixelFed - Federated Image Sharing https://pixelfed.org/ (more)

Mastodon Was Designed to Be a Nazi-Free Twitter. Now It's Home to Gab. Mastodon was launched as a decentralized, social justice friendly Twitter alternative that was free of Nazis and harassment. But two years later, the biggest Mastodon instance is now Gab, a far-right social media network known widely as a gathering space for white supremacists (more)

Evernote's Next Move: Joining the Bending Spoons Suite of Apps. Today we are pleased to announce that Evernote has agreed to join Bending Spoons, a leading developer of stand-out mobile apps. (more)