The Big Idea from Bill Gates’s New Climate book. Bill Gates has been thinking about what he calls the “hard stuff” of climate change. (more)

Oil companies are laughing while the world burns. ABC, CBS, and NBC (big media) aired a combined 123 segments about the heat wave, but only seven mentioned climate change. (more)

This SimCity-Like Tool Lets Urban Planners See The Potential Impact Of Their Ideas. UrbanFootprint, a startup with a software tool of the same name, was first to begin providing stats. (more)

James Pethokoukis: The techno-optimist Up Wing lesson that William Gibson's 'The Peripheral' (Jackpot series) inadvertently teaches. Dystopian? Eight episodes in and I think that’s a reasonable description (more)

Carlota Perez, Leo Johnson, and Art Kleiner: Are We on the Verge of a New Golden Age? We are in the midst of the fifth great surge (as Perez calls them) of technological and economic change since the Industrial Revolution. (more)

The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse. ...gargantuan homes with equally oversized trucks parked in the driveway. They tower over their older neighbors at a tragicomical scale difficult to convey, each identically crafted for maximum cheapness and interchangeability. Behold the McMansion in all its readymade, disposable grandeur. (more)

Energy lobbyists have a new PAC to push for a carbon tax. Wait, what? The PAC is called Americans for Carbon Dividends (AFCD) and it is educating the public about, and lobbying for, a policy called carbon tax-and-dividend. More specifically, it is pushing a proposal that was released last year by a nonprofit called the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), led by former Secretary of State James Baker III. AFCD is effectively the lobbying arm of the CLC. (more)

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book by Gary Stager and Sylvia Libow Martinez ISBN:0989151107 http://www.inventtolearn.com/ (more)

mathematician, AI guru; author of Mindstorms (more)

Anders Ericsson model of Self Improvement (more)

Cedric Chin: Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice. inevitably someone will pop up on Twitter or Hacker News or Reddit or email and protest that tacit knowledge doesn’t exist. See his 2022 series on Ill-structured domains. (more)

making stuff pretty :) (more)

how a human (user) interacts with a product (Software, application, WebApp) (more)

John Robb: A Corporate Run World. *new research report called the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer that touches on many of the ideas we are tracking on Global Guerrillas. For example, they found that a majority of people across 27 developed countries now believe: (more)

John Robb: Manufacturing the Permacrisis Let’s start with our working definition of a permacrisis. It is: (more)

author Brave New War (more)

Small vegetable/herb garden for a residence. Growing food for family use. Smaller than Family Farm. (more)

Jeff Morris listing software cults (he just invested in Roam). What should really qualify, given the contentious nature of geeks? His list: (more)

Stowe Boyd method of mimicing Typora for his to-do-list, replaced by Taskidian