Max Krieger on "Chatting with Glue" (LiveChat). Chapter 1: When we converse.... as soon as we open our mouths, we start to think.... Conversational media have accidentally compressed/linearized our thinking... There's a lot of richness in conversations. This richness is most abundance in the minds participating.... And as ideas sprout from our mind-trees, they're enriched and diversified by others...And this is no coincidence: our thoughts activate in patterns of association... What does this suggest about conversation? Not only is it more rich than our utterances alone, but it's nonlinear, and never complete. (more)

controller of NewsCorp (more)

In sociology and economics, the precariat (/prɪˈkɛəriət/) is a neologism for a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare. The term is a portmanteau obtained by merging precarious with proletariat.[1] Unlike the proletariat class of industrial workers in the 20th century who lacked their own means of production and hence sold their labour to live, members of the precariat are only partially involved in labour and must undertake extensive "unremunerated activities that are essential if they are to retain access to jobs and to decent earnings". The hallmark of the precariat class is the condition of lack of job security, including intermittent employment or underemployment and the resultant precarious existence.[2] The emergence of this class has been ascribed to the entrenchment of neoliberal capitalism.[3][4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat (more)

where a tax-rate (income tax) goes up as you make/have more, aiming to reduce income inequality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivity_in_United_States_income_tax (more)

Itamar Gilad: Why you should stop using product roadmaps and try the GIST Framework. Here’s what I used to do:... there is almost no room for agility — changes at the top cause huge ripple effects of replanning and project cancellations at the bottom. Agile development addressed project waterfall, but didn’t change planning waterfall. So, what’s the alternative? GIST. (more)

Itamar Gilad meta-framework for product management - Goals, Ideas, Steps, Tasks. See related Opportunity Solution Tree. (more)

Zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) is a macroeconomic concept describing conditions with a very low nominal interest rate, such as those in contemporary Japan and in the United States from December 2008 through December 2015 and again from March 2020 until March 2022 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. ZIRP is considered to be an unconventional monetary policy instrument and can be associated with slow economic growth, deflation and deleverage.[1] Under ZIRP, the central bank maintains a 0% nominal interest rate (fed funds rate). The ZIRP is an important milestone in monetary policy because the central bank is typically no longer able to reduce nominal interest rates. ZIRP is very closely related to the problem of a liquidity trap, where nominal interest rates cannot adjust downward at a time when savings exceed investment. However, some economists—such as market monetarists—believe that unconventional monetary policy such as quantitative easing can be effective at the zero lower bound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy (more)

The "price" of debt/loans (debt financing).

From the Great Depression through now. 2 separate Economic Transitions. (A Brain Fart started in 2009.) (more)

Get Your War On is a series of satirical comic strips by David Rees about political topics. Initially, the comic concerned the effects of the September 11 attacks on New York City, but it quickly switched its focus to more recent topics, in particular the War on Terror. The strip debuted on October 9, 2001. From a technical standpoint the strips are crude, being assembled from about a dozen simple clip art pictures of office workers (with a few exceptions, most notably super robot Voltron) that are repeated, often in the same strip. Almost all are in red on a white background. There is an emphasis on dialogue, with little action. Highly disillusioned and cynical, it is heavily laden with expletives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Your_War_On (more)

Welcome to the Wiki Node of the DigitalGarden/WikiLog of Bill Seitz. (more)

The interestingness you get passively in an urban village. (more)

Ubiquity, a legacy browser extension for Mozilla Firefox, was a collection of quick and easy natural-language-derived commands that act as mashups of web services, thus allowing users to get information and relate it to current and other webpages. It also allowed Web users to create new commands without requiring much technical background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox) (more)

Phil Jones has been nutting for Enso for awhile. I now see (a) they've gone Open Source, and (b) it's written in Python! Now I just need to figure out whether it would actually be useful for me! Seems like a Command Line interface. (more)

Jono Xia: Retrospective: What We Learned from the Ubiquity extension. (more)

Data portability is a concept to protect users from having their data stored in "silos" or "walled gardens" that are incompatible with one another, i.e. closed platforms, thus subjecting them to vendor lock-in and making the creation of data backups or moving accounts between services difficult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_portability cf interop

The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching Act of 2021, or the ACCESS Act of 2021, is a proposed antitrust bill in the United States House of Representatives. The purpose of the legislation is to mandate data portability from Big Tech companies to provide users the ability to switch their data between platforms... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACCESS_Act_of_2021

laws prohibiting corporate rules/contracts which stop users/3rd-parties from repairing tools

Cory Doctorow term for process of a given business/institution turning increasingly from value creation to value extraction (cf surveillance capitalism) (more)

GNU Guix (/ɡiːks/[2]) is a functional cross-platform package manager and a tool to instantiate and manage Unix-like operating systems, based on the Nix package manager. Configuration and package recipes are written in Guile Scheme. GNU Guix is the default package manager of the GNU Guix System distribution.[3] Differing from traditional package managers, Guix (like Nix) utilizes a purely functional deployment model where software is installed into unique directories generated through cryptographic hashes. All dependencies for each software are included within each hash.[4][5] This solves the problem of dependency hell,[6] allows multiple versions of the same software to coexist and makes packages portable and reproducible. Performing scientific computations in a Guix setup has been proposed as a promising response to the replication crisis... Guix packages are defined through functional Guile Scheme APIs specifically designed for package management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix (more)