Kamala Devi Harris[a] (/ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi/ ⓘ KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee;[2][3] born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.[4][5] A member of the Democratic Party, she was previously attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris (more)

Albert Einstein (/ˈaɪnstaɪn/ EYEN-styne;[4] German: [ˈalbɛɐt ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] ⓘ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics, and was thus a central figure in the revolutionary reshaping of the scientific understanding of nature that modern physics accomplished in the first decades of the twentieth century.[1][5] His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".[6] He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect",[7] a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.[8][9] In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, Einstein was ranked the greatest physicist of all time.[10] His intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein broadly synonymous with genius. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

Independent Film producer (Film Industry) - was at Amazon Original Movies 2015-May'2020. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hope (more)

My books include Mind Management, Not Time Management, The Heart to Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating, Digital Zettelkasten (2021), Design for Hackers (2011) (which debuted in the top 20 on all of Amazon), and multiple “short reads”. I’ve sold more than 100,000 books, in twelve languages. https://kadavy.net/about/

The 50 Most Important Life-Saving Breakthroughs in History. By the 20th century, an explosion in new technologies, treatments, and other science-backed practices helped to increase global life expectancy at an unprecedented rate. From 1900 to 2015, global life expectancy more than doubled, shooting well past the 70 year mark. (more)

Jason Lemkin: Why Some SaaS Hit a Wall at $20m in Revenues. What’s going to stop company X from continuing to grow at outlier rates? “You’ll see,” they say. “I have so many companies in my portfolio that totally stalled out at $20m ARR”. (more)

Stephen Millard: From $1 to $100m revenue: Scaling VC backed SaaS with Notion Capital. The probability of a VC backed SaaS company hitting $100m in revenue is approximately 1 in 100 (more)

Erik Torenberg: Markets and Communities. One thing I’m curious to explore is why, on the one hand, we are richer and healthier than ever — thanks to markets & economic growth — while we also seem to be suffering from increased anxiety, loneliness, and the deterioration of community. (more)

Packy McCormick: Conjuring Scenius. IT’S TIME TO BUILD TOGETHER: In January, I read Taylor Lorenz’s New York Times piece on The Hype House, the LA mansion in which nineteen of TikTok’s biggest stars live, create, and collaborate. (more)

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by Simon & Schuster in 2016. In Tribe (2016) Junger studies war veterans from an anthropological perspective and asks "How do you make veterans feel that they are returning to a cohesive society that was worth fighting for in the first place?" Junger's premise is that "Soldiers ignore differences of race, religion and politics within their platoon..." and upon return to America, find a fractious society splintered into various competing factions, often hostile to one another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_(Junger_book) ISBN:9781455566389

Jorge Arango: Ebooks for Efficient Note-taking. Reading sometimes feels like a conversation with the author. I’ll come across an idea in a book or paper that sparks a thought — my ‘response.’ It may be a connection with another idea, a reference to another book, a quote that resonates, or something else. Whatever it is, I don’t want to lose it, so I take notes while reading. cf My Book Reading Process (more)

Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation ISBN:9781804291245 (more)

The Freedom Caucus, also known as the House Freedom Caucus, is a congressional caucus consisting of Republican members of the United States House of Representatives. It is generally considered to be the most conservative and furthest-right bloc within the chamber.[1][2][3][4][5] The caucus was formed in January 2015 by a group of conservatives and Tea Party movement members,[6][7] with the aim of pushing the Republican leadership to the right.[2] Its first chairperson, Jim Jordan, described the caucus as a "smaller, more cohesive, more agile and more active" group of conservative representatives... The caucus originated during the mid–January 2015 Republican congressional retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania.[26] According to founding member Mick Mulvaney, "that was the first time we got together and decided we were a group, and not just a bunch of pissed-off guys"... The founding members who constituted the first board of directors for the new caucus were Republican representatives Scott Garrett of New Jersey, Jim Jordan of Ohio, John Fleming of Louisiana, Matt Salmon of Arizona, Justin Amash of Michigan, Raúl Labrador of Idaho, Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Mark Meadows of North Carolina. (more)

Marjorie Taylor Greene (née Taylor; born May 27, 1974), also known by her initials MTG,[1] is an American far-right[2] politician, businesswoman, and conspiracy theorist[3] who has been the U.S. representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district since 2021.[4] A member of the Republican Party, she was elected to Congress in 2020 following the retirement of Republican incumbent Tom Graves and was reelected in 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. CFPB's jurisdiction includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortgage-servicing operations, foreclosure relief services, debt collectors, and other financial companies operating in the United States. Since its founding, the CFPB has used technology tools to monitor how financial entities used social media and algorithms to target consumers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection. The FTC shares jurisdiction over federal civil antitrust law enforcement with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission

Seeing Cory Doctorow Bezzle Book Reading.... (more)

Lina M. Khan (born March 3, 1989) is a British-born American legal scholar serving as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since 2021. She is also an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School. While a student at Yale Law School, she became known for her work in antitrust and competition law in the United States after publishing the influential essay "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan

Pluralistic: 13 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow. 20 years a blogger...It's been twenty years, to the day, since I published my first blog-post. (more)

Was a Magazine, now a WebLog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing (more)