Refined-standard MarkDown. http://commonmark.org/ (more)

Welcome to Viv Games -- Small but Mighty (more)

from (2022-11-30) Nadia Mapping Out The Tribes Of Climate

Nadia Asparouhova: Mapping out the tribes of climate. Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer?... What I found instead is that while the media still portrays climate change as a simple question of beliefs, the climate field has long moved on to diversified solutions. Whether one believes in climate change is no longer the interesting question; now it’s “What do you think is the right approach?” (more)

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian (before-Christopher Columbus) Americas. It was the 2006 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public's understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine. The book presents recent research findings in different fields that suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous (peak of 100 million), had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought...By the time the Europeans arrived in numbers to supplant the indigenous population in the Americas, the previous dominant people had been almost eliminated, mostly by disease (brought by Europeans since 1492). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus ISBN:1400032059 (more)

The eight-circuit model of consciousness (sometimes capitalized) is a theory in psychology, first proposed by Tim Leary. It consists of several quantum psychological systems that unify the various interpretations of the main altered states of consciousness into one coherent meta-theory. The most basic part describes, in a simple outline, eight circuits of information (colloquially "brains") that operate within the human nervous system. Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli have all written about each circuit in depth and how each operates in the lives of human beings, both individually and collectively. (e.g. "eight circuits of consciousness") (more)

Michael Nielsen has a thread suggesting a mashup of James Scott, legibility, Gall's Law, Jane Jacobs, Chesterton's fence, OODA loops, Daron Acemoglu et al on Radical Reform, & Red Plenty... with a big dose of Elinor Ostrom as well. (more)

Scott Alexander: The Consequences Of Radical Reform. So maybe the moral of the story is something like - replacing stagnation and entrenched interests with good reform is good, and with bad reform is bad. Which sounds obvious, but I do think that considerations of "is this potentially challenging a carefully evolved system of traditions?" is less important than I originally believed. (more)

site that calculates walkable ratings of cities/neighborhoods https://www.walkscore.com/cities-and-neighborhoods/ The 130 cities we rate with a population of 200,000 or greater have an average Walk Score of 48.

an under-appreciated and under-used tool in Physical Fitness (more)

Urban-planning model of walkable urban village. The 15-minute city (FMC or 15mC)[1][2] is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by 15-minute's walking or bicycle riding from any point in the city.[3] This approach aims to reduce car dependency, promote healthy and sustainable living, and improve wellbeing and quality of life for city dwellers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city cf neighborhood, Community Of 7000... at population density of 21k/sqmi, a 1-mile city would have 21k people. (more)

A language defined by David Bourland to reduce Semantic Noise. (more)

Karl Schroeder: The Music of the Anthropocene. ..some pieces are holding my attention not because they capture the aesthetic of the day, but because they engage with the moment in other ways: they are music about life in the Anthropocene. Here are a few that I’ve had on steady rotation. (more)

Karl Schroeder: A Whole New Way to End Our Civilization. In The Single Family Space Colony Part I I talked about frame innovation and the idea that seemingly insoluble problems can sometimes be made manageable by finding a new metaphor for them. This shouldn’t be an occasional activity; it can be how we habitually think. For example, take the idea of the end of the world. What happens if we reframe that? (more)

Karl Schroeder: Unpredicting 2024. ...not what your average random stranger is fishing for when they find out I do foresight and ask me to “predict something.” What we care about, what they’re fishing for, is what’s going to surprise us. (more)

Jason Cohen: Using the Needs Stack for competitive business strategy. Charlie’s life ambition is not “to buy infrastructure.” In fact, it’s a means to and end. What Charlie really wants is to have a functioning WordPress-based website (more)

Jason Cohen on Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data. Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit – both self-funded and VC-funded – exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences. (more)

Karl Schroeder: VIV GAMES is Live! In online video games, you’ve got agency, power, and the ability to instill hope in those around you. (more)

Karl Schroeder: How to Save the Metaverse (and Why). If you disregard all the people who ‘touched’ the Metaverse in some abstract, transactional way, who’s actually been there lately? I really want to know—because the vision of the Metaverse is as an alternate universe, a virtual playground of unlimited extent, as imagined in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, Ernest Cline’s Ready, Player One; and in William Gibson’s Cyberspace, the Matrix or (going back to the dark ages of 1982 and Tron, “the Grid”). (more)