Joe Biden Team Prepares $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy. A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive. (more)

What Makes Godot Engine Great for Advanced GUI Applications? While it was designed to make games, it has an exceptionally sophisticated system for making graphical user interfaces. I think this is the future for advanced GUI applications. Not convinced? (more)

Matt Ridley: Against Environmental Pessimism ...Example of things going right in the environment... Far from starving, the seven billion people who now inhabit the planet are far better fed than the four billion of 1980. Famine has pretty much gone extinct in recent decades. In the 1960s, about two million people died of famine; in the decade that just ended, tens of thousands died—and those were in countries run by callous tyrants. (more)

The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties (Conference of the Parties, COP) to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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)