Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the right to repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and defend these rights through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft) https://sfconservancy.org/ (more)

Fred Wilson: What Will Happen In 2024. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. However, optimistic capital markets are necessary but not sufficient for a healthy innovation economy. We also need innovation.... The good news is we have a lot of that and more is coming in 2024. I have never seen an environment with more innovation in the forty years I have been in the tech sector. (more)

John William Gurley (born May 10, 1966) is an American businessman. He is a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in San Francisco, California. He is listed consistently on the Forbes Midas List[1][2] and is considered one of technology’s top dealmakers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gurley

A statistically improbable phrase (SIP) is a phrase or set of words that occurs more frequently in a document (or collection of documents) than in some larger corpus.[1][2][3] Amazon.com uses this concept in determining keywords for a given book or chapter, since keywords of a book or chapter are likely to appear disproportionately within that section.[4][5] Christian Rudder has also used this concept with data from online dating profiles and Twitter posts to determine the phrases most characteristic of a given race or gender in his book Dataclysm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistically_improbable_phrase (more)

aka gasoline, fossil fuel for automobiles. Also ethereum transaction cost (more)

Elena Burger: Minimum Viable Participation in Crypto: Games, Costs, & Accessibility. When people talk about the recent past and envision the distant future of crypto, conversation always comes back to the cycle of wealth creation and redistribution. (more)

Forkast: What Is Polkadot And Why Is It One Of The Hottest Blockchains Right Now? In a blockchain ecosystem dominated by Bitcoin and Ethereum, Polkadot — which launched only a year ago last May — is already establishing itself as a next-generation blockchain. (more)

Nat Eliason: Solana's Fast & Cheap Answer to Ethereum's Gas Wars - DeFriday #13. When I started writing DeFriday, you could do most Ethereum transactions for under $10-$20. (more)

I'm Jon Lebkowsky, co-host at the Plutopia News Network, also co-host of the Inkwell.vue forum here on the WELL. This is our 25th annual State of the World conversation. (more)

frame of jackpot/collapse

The Wagner Group (Russian: Группа Вагнера, tr. Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner[8] (Russian: ЧВК «Вагнер», tr. ChVK «Vagner»[62]) and as the Africa Corps (Russian: Африканский корпус, tr. Afrikanskiy korpus) in Africa,[63] is a Russian state-funded[64] private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin.[8][65] The Wagner Group has used infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces.[66] Evidence suggests that Wagner has been used as a proxy by the Russian government, allowing it to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad, and hiding the true casualties of Russia's foreign interventions.[66][67] The group emerged during the Donbas War in Ukraine, where it helped pro-Russian forces from 2014 to 2015.[8] Wagner played a significant role in the subsequent full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine,[68] for which it recruited Russian prison inmates for frontline combat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

aka LLM

Book by Michael Schrage ASIN:B008HRM9X4. This brief book explains how a simple question—who do you want your customers to become?—transforms strategic, marketing, and innovation insights. This question—what I’ll call “The Ask”—successfully provokes managers and entrepreneurs into reimagining, redefining, and redesigning their customers’ future. (more)

McDonald's, a very BigCo

Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925 – June 28, 2006) was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization. In 1983, he proposed a definition for corporate purpose: "Rather than merely making money, it is to create and keep a customer"... In 1959 he joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School. Later that year, he became well known after publishing Marketing Myopia in Harvard Business Review where he asks "What business are you in?", a phrase that demands one account for the significance of the job one does (corporate mission more than job to be done).... He was the author of The Marketing Imagination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Levitt

Marketing Myopia is a term that refers to the tendency of businesses to define their market so narrowly as to miss opportunities for growth. It suggests that businesses will do better in the long-term if they concentrate on improving the utility of a product or good, rather than just trying to sell their products... Ted Levitt postulated that a myopic culture would lead a business to fall due to the short-sighted mindset and the illusion that a firm is in a so-called "growth industry." Such beliefs lead to complacency and losing sight of what customers want. It is said that myopic managers focus more on the original product and refuse to adapt to the needs and wants of the consumer. To continue growing, companies must understand and act on their customers’ needs and desires instead of banking on the presumptive longevity of their products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_myopia

Living; part of a Complex System (more)

business growth which isn't "accelerated" by OPM or high marketing spending

Rudy Rucker term: seek ye the gnarl!... Rucker believes gnarliness to be the defining quality of life, the universe and everything -- even human thought. (more)

Matt Mandel (USV): Making Energy Programmable... We’ve previously written about the storage gap... The push to build out storage capacity is just one example of how the edges of the grid are manipulating energy in increasingly complex ways. (Smart Grid) (more)