A limiting/gating factor/attribute. Could be a law of physics, could be a game-rule (culture), could be a side-effect of other decisions. The Theory of Constraints says that a business usually has 1 primary constraint, its Bottleneck.

Taylor Pearson on The Truth about How Creativity Really Works. John Boyd was a fighter pilot.. (more)

Bob Sproull: The Goal Tree Part 1: A complaint I have heard many times is that a full TP (Logical Thinking Process) analysis typically takes several days to complete and let’s face it, a regular executive team simply doesn’t have that kind of time to spend on this. (more)

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Who voted for Donald Trump? Why? (more)

Timothy Ferriss Physical Fitness book. ISBN:0307463656. I have 2 semi-self-contradictory criticisms of this book. It preaches from a Self Experimentation (Quantified Self) perspective, but: (more)

Timothy Ferriss interviews Tim O'Reilly. Parenthood/Raising Reality Hackers, TimO's Frank Herbert book, other Greatest Books (esp fiction, poetry) (2010-02-16-OreillyBooksThatChangeHowHeThinks), Alfred Korzybski, George Simon, DocBook/EBooks, Capitalism/Value...

Daniel Meyer (born March 14, 1958) is a New York City restaurateur and the Founder & Executive Chairman of the Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG)... In 1985, at age 27, Meyer opened his first restaurant, Union Square Cafe.[5] Meyer's other restaurants and businesses include Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke and Jazz Standard, Shake Shack, Daily Provisions, Ci Siamo, The Modern, Cafe 2 and Terrace 5 at MoMA, Maialino at the Gramercy Park Hotel, Untitled at the North End Grill, Marta, Porchlight, GreenRiver, Union Square Events, and Hospitality Quotient.[6] Union Square Events, USHG's catering division, operates several concessions at major sports facilities including Citi Field, Saratoga Race Course, and Nationals Park... As the COVID-19 swept through the United States, Meyer shuttered all his restaurants, criticized other businesses for opening, and stated that he did not expect to offer full service until a vaccine was available.[15][16] In a May 1 Vanity Fair podcast, Meyer explained that taking a Paycheck Protection Program loan, intended to help small businesses, "could be the most irresponsible thing in the world for a restaurant to do."[17] In July, it emerged that twelve separate Meyer restaurants received loans. Meyer's company, Union Square Hospitality Group, received between $11.4 and $27 million in PPP loans.[17] Shake Shack earlier claimed to return its PPP assistance following media attention."... Meyer also wrote The New York Times bestseller Setting the Table (HarperCollins, 2006), which examines the power of hospitality in restaurants, business, and life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Meyer

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big. Small Giants takes readers deep inside 14 remarkable companies that have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying goals—like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, and making great contributions to their communities. In exploring these “small giants,” Bo Burlingham shows how every company can benefit by questioning the usual definitions of business success. https://boburlingham.com/other-books/ (more)

Timothy Ferriss: Tools of Titans ISBN:1785041274 (more)

author: Finish Big; Small Giants; Street Smarts; The Great Game of Business https://boburlingham.com/

Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered CyberPunk topics such as Virtual Reality and Smart Drug-s. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded Wired Mag.[1] (more)

Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical tendency for most sufficiently intelligent beings (human and non-human) to pursue similar sub-goals, even if their ultimate goals are quite different.[1] More precisely, agents (beings with agency) may pursue instrumental goals—goals which are made in pursuit of some particular end, but are not the end goals themselves—without ceasing, provided that their ultimate (intrinsic) goals may never be fully satisfied.... The paperclip maximizer is a thought experiment described by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003. It illustrates the existential risk that an artificial general intelligence (AGI) may pose to human beings were it to be successfully designed to pursue even seemingly harmless goals and the necessity of incorporating machine ethics into artificial intelligence design. The scenario describes an advanced artificial intelligence tasked with manufacturing paperclips. If such a machine were not programmed to value human life, given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including human beings, into paperclips or machines that manufacture paperclips.[5] "Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

Karl Schroeder: Apocalypse, or Just a Catastrophe? I want to do book reviews, talk about stuff that excites me, and give you a window into my current work, but the main connective tissue of Unapocalyptic posts is tools to think with. (tools for thought) (more)

The idea, widely held by the Extropian crowd, that the curve of the total knowledge of humankind will continue to accelerate (Knowledge Growth) until it goes roughly vertical, at which point we will transcend humanity itself. Or something like that. (more)

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a primary goal of some artificial intelligence research and a common topic in science fiction and future studies. Artificial general intelligence is also referred to as "strong AI",[1] "full AI"[2] or as the ability of a machine to perform "general intelligent action".[3] Academic sources reserve "strong AI" to refer to machines capable of experiencing consciousness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence (more)

Artificial Intelligence (more)

Dave Pollard on Personal Knowledge Management. Universal Toolbox? (more)

Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published for domestic American and UK markets. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.[1] It was published as a print version between October 1978 and 1995. The first Omni e-magazine was published on CompuServe in 1986 and the magazine switched to a purely online presence in 1996.[2][3] It ceased publication abruptly in late 1997, following the death of co-founder Kathy Keeton; activity on the magazine's website ended the following April.... Omni was founded by Kathy Keeton and her long-time collaborator and future husband Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse magazine.[6] The initial concept came from Keeton, who wanted a magazine "that explored all realms of science and the paranormal, that delved into all corners of the unknown and projected some of those discoveries into fiction". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_(magazine)