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Not memes I created, but those I tend to quote a lot (more)

Competence porn is a term invented by Leverage writer John Rogers and used by a lot of critics since. It's the thrill of watching talented people plan, banter, and work together to solve problems (problem solving). It's not just "characters being good at a thing," particularly if that thing is fighting—otherwise the term would apply to virtually all fiction—but specifically about using cleverness and hard work. Though the term mostly applies to realistic dramas, there's an element of Wish-Fulfillment to it, as characters in a competence porn series rarely have to deal with serious infighting, dead end ideas, and all the other difficulties that affect real life groups. Common genres include Capers, Medical Dramas, the more idealistic Government and Law Procedurals, and harder sci-fi. Guile Hero and The Trickster characters from mythology and legend are antecedents. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompetencePorn (TV trope) (more)

Clever Commute creates Email List-s for each Commuter Train line (around New York City and Boston Ma) so that people can alert each other to delays.

Richard Dawkins defines a meme as an idea-virus, in a Viral Model (more)

Carbon Commentary newsletter, Week ending September 11th 2021 (more)

Ben Yeoh: Critique of GDP and carbon Tax, from Vaclav Smil. This is a good short critique of the carbon tax (I still think pricing might help but maybe I’m wrong). Followed by a good critique on GDP. (From Smil's Growth book.) (more)

Review of Vaclav Smil book: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’. The latest is Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities. (more)

Brad DeLong: “Slouching” Omission: Mishandling the: Theme of the Industrial Research Laboratory: First Edition. Arthur Goldhammer has a withering critique of how the theme of the industrial research lab is developed—or, rather, left undeveloped in the book (Slouching Toward Utopia). (more)

Ban private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas Piketty. Questions of social and economic class must be at the centre of our response to the climate change crisis, to address the huge inequalities between the carbon footprints of the rich and poor and prevent a backlash against climate policies, the economist Thomas Piketty has said. (more)

Jerry Hinkle, Citizens' Climate Lobby: The economic and emissions impacts of the Market Choice Act. Rep. Carlos Curbelo introduced the Market Choice Act in July 2018. (more)

Excellent book by Ray Oldenburg ISBN:1569246815 about Third Places (more)

Martin Cagan: Transformation Fail. We hope to give you a better understanding of why so many transformations fail, but also a deeper understanding of what is truly necessary to succeed. See prev (2022-05-31) Cagan Moore Transformation Defined. (more)

Martin Cagan: Alternatives To Product Leaders. In this article, I wanted to talk about alternatives to covering the product leader’s responsibilities. See prev (2023-11-28) Cagan Alternatives To Product Managers. (more)

Matrix (sometimes stylized as [matrix][disputed – discuss]) is an open standard and communication protocol for real-time communication. It aims to make real-time communication work seamlessly between different service providers, in the way that standard SMTP email currently does for store-and-forward email service, by allowing users with accounts at one communications service provider to communicate with users of a different service provider via online chat, voice over IP, and videotelephony. It therefore serves a similar purpose to protocols like XMPP, but is not based on any existing communication protocol. From a technical perspective, it is an application layer communication protocol for federated real-time communication. It provides HTTP APIs and open source reference implementations for securely distributing and persisting messages in JSON format over an open federation of servers.[2][3] It can integrate with standard web services via WebRTC, facilitating browser-to-browser applications... Synapse is the reference implementation of a Matrix home server, written in Python. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol) It's reference client app is Element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_(software) (more)

a movie; also matrix management; also a mathematic object; also a chat protocol Matrix.org (more)

April Dunford: When Product Market Fit Does Not Equal Growth. (Conference: SaaStock 2019.) Fundamentally, as startups, we all want to grow, so we’re all looking for a pathway to scalable, repeatable sales. But at the same time, we know that scaling too soon doesn’t work. In fact, sometimes it can be downright dangerous. (more)

Airbnb Wants to Feel Young Again. Booking Holdings and Airbnb have long resembled a father-son duo of the online travel industry. Airbnb has traditionally been the cool kid of the two... But, just as people often look (and behave) more like their parents as they age, Airbnb is increasingly starting to look more like Booking. The two companies are expected to grow revenue at roughly the same rates next year—about 11%... That’s the competitive backdrop for Airbnb’s significant executive shake-up today, an “inflection point” for the company, CEO Brian Chesky wrote. (more)

aka Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Emotive_Behavior_Therapy (more)

writer (pseudonym for Jason Pargin) of articles, Zoey Ashe series, John Dies at the End series... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wong_(writer) https://www.johndiesattheend.com/ https://www.cracked.com/members/David%20Wong/#columns https://twitter.com/JohnDiesattheEn (more)