1932-2007. Author. Highly recommend Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy as a first read. Prometheus Rising for Brain Training. http://www.rawilson.com/ (more)

Originally a HyperCard stack (delivered on a batch of 5 floppy disks!) in 1991. Beyond CyberPunk!, by Peter Sugarman and Gareth Branwyn. (more)

Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Drop Out Culture ISBN:0936756926 by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Ron Sakolsky and others. (more)

annual recurring revenue

aka monthly recurring revenue (revenue) cf ARR

Brad DeLong: How Humanity Lost Control. How can we be at least 15 times richer than our pre-industrial Agrarian Age predecessors, and yet so unhappy? (more)

Eric Nehrlich: The Unaccountability Machine, by Dan Davies. I read an online excerpt of this book and was immediately intrigued by the idea of an “accountability sink”, which is a mechanism by which “The communication between the decision-maker and the decided-upon has been broken – they have created a handy sink into which negative feedback can be poured without any danger of it affecting anything.” (more)

Henry Farrell: Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis. One of the most interesting ‘might have been’ moments in intellectual history happened in the early 1970s, when Brian Eno traipsed to a dingy cottage in Wales to pay homage to Stafford Beer. (more)

Term coined by Norbert Wiener. (more)

Stafford Beer (born Anthony Stafford Beer, 25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School[1]. He is best known for his work in the fields of operations research and management cybernetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer (cf CyberSyn)

Project-oriented Roadmaps are counter-productive for Software Product Teams. (more)

or, more generally, Climate Change (more)

Designer of the Apple Macintosh. And the CanonCat. (more)

John Ohno: Alternate Computer Universes: Jef Raskin’s Macintosh. For me, the idea of cyberpunk is tied tightly to the assumptions and aesthetics of the early ’80s. (more)

operating outside traditional/big institutions - Micro-SaaS/Micro-ISV, Micropreneur, One-Man Show, Two-Pizza Company, SmallCo, Neo-Victorian, Arts And Crafts, Co-op, SmallWorld/SmallWeb, SlowWorld (?), Bespoke, Boutique, Small Batch (2009-07-31-LindermanBoutiqueBizRename), Situated Software, Life-Style Company, NanoCorp, Auteur Theory, Grunt-Fund, Co-op, Bootstrapping (more)

Paid Site community for Micropreneurs. (Renamed to FounderCafe?) (more)

What is the goal/Mission of Educating Kids? (more)

Style of Schooling informed by the Industrial Age mindset. (more)

Audrey Watters thinks most people's (Sal Khan, Ken Robinson, John Taylor Gatto...) history/model of Factory Schooling is over-simplified. (more)

Cellular Automata book by Stephen Wolfram (more)