Robin Hanson: This short "manifesto" describes a new form of government. In "futarchy," we would vote on Values, but bet on beliefs (Idea Futures). Elected representatives would formally define and manage an after-the-fact measurement of national welfare, while market speculators would say which policies they expect to raise national welfare... GDP is today the most common measure of national wealth. It seems hard for frequent travelers to escape the impression that people in high GDP nations tend to be richer and better off than those in low GDP nations. Economists thus tend to be willing to recommend policies that macroeconomic data suggest are causally related to increasing GDP. It seems that it is not that hard to, after the fact, tell rich satisfied nations from poor miserable ones. GDP may be good enough, and with the full attention of our elected representatives, we should be able to do even better, such as by including happiness, inequality, health, leisure, and environment measures. (more)

Cedric Chin: Notes From Building a CFT Business Case Library. Last week, we ran an alpha test for a Cognitive Flexibility Theory-inspired business case study library. (more)

similar frame as edutainment

bulletin board system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

Mostly about connectivity, but also the services. (more)

MindVox was an early Internet service provider (ISP) in New York City. The service was referred to as "the Hells Angels of Cyberspace"[1] — it was founded in 1991 by Bruce Fancher (Dead Lord) and Patrick Kroupa (Lord Digital), two former members of the Legion of Doom hacker group.[2] The system was partially online by March 1992, and open to the public in November of that year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindVox

aka Mainstream Media (more)

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off. Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about. (more)

as of Dec'2023 the most advanced version of GPT

aka AT&T, giant TelCo (more)

Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality Fan Fiction story. (more)

Demonstration. cf prototype, demo or die, mother of all demos

Cedric Chin: MsOffice case - Suite Success. Pre-1995, however, Office was nowhere near as dominant. Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect — not Excel and Word — were the respective market leaders in the spreadsheet and word processing application categories (more)

Cedric Chin TikTok case - One Very Long Year. It’s clear that TikTok has captured global attention. As of press time in 2022, they have about 1.6 billion monthly active users. (more)

Cedric Chin: The Idea Maze. A good founder is thus capable of anticipating which turns lead to treasure and which lead to certain death... What is the Idea Maze? In a sentence: the Idea Maze is the process of exploration required to nail down all the components of a successful product. (more)

Cedric Chin Instagram case - The Bigger Picture. Instagram’s origins may be traced back to the personal life of its co-founder Kevin Systrom. As a junior at Stanford, Systrom built a side project called Photobox — a website that allowed people to upload images for sharing or printing. It was often used at Systrom’s fraternity parties. (more)

Cedric Chin review Teaching Tech Together. This is a summary of a 🌳 tree book on teaching computer programming to beginners. This summary of Greg Wilson’s Teaching Tech Together is going to be a little different from the other book summaries I’ve done on Commonplace. (more)

Cedric Chin: Good Synthesis is the Start of Good Sensemaking. Let us pretend that you are a laminate manufacturer. (more)

Cedric Chin case AmazonPrime - Burn to Grow. Amazon’s growth story hit an unexpected snag in Q3 of 2004. Its online retail store was still growing, but at a slower pace compared to Q3 of the previous year (more)

Cedric Chin: Brief Notes on the Idea Maze. In this piece, I want to talk a little about what’s leapt out to me while I wrote and researched these cases. (2022-08-23-ChinTheIdeaMazeCases) (more)