Venkatesh Rao suggets the "Milo Criterion" as a limiting factor in user acceptance of software change/disruption (products must mature no faster than the rate at which users can adapt) (Adoption Life Cycle). There is a saying that goes back to Milo of Croton: lift a calf everyday and when you grow up, you can lift a cow. He's Framing this as Slow Marketing, and contrasting it to Lean Startup theory. (more)

book Rebels & Devils: The Psychology of Liberation - Christopher S. Hyatt & William S. Burroughs & Timothy Leary & Robert Anton Wilson & Aleister Crowley & Pete Carroll & Phil Hine & Antero Alli & Genesis P-Orridge & Joseph C. Lisiewski. ISBN:1935150340 (more)

I’m the author of “Hearts over Diamonds” – the foundational and definitive book on Organizational Psychotherapy, the originator of Rightshifting and the creator of the Marshall Model (Dreyfus model for the organization), as well as Prod•gnosis, Emotioneering FlowChain – the enterprise-wide approach to developing software-intensive products and services, and more recently the Antimatter Principle and Flow•gnosis. https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/about/bio/

Brain Magick: Exercises in Meta-Magick and Invocation by Philip Farber ISBN:0738729264 (more)

Loomio is decision-making software and web service designed to assist groups with collaborative, consensus-focused decision-making processes. It is a free software[3] web application, where users can initiate discussions and put up proposals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio (more)

Martin Cagan: The Moral Case for the Product Model. In virtually all of my writing and speaking, I try to make the business case for the product model. (more)

Dialysis May Prolong Life for Older Patients. But Not by Much. ...a simulated trial involving records from more than 20,000 older patients (average age: about 78) in the Veterans Health Administration system. (simulated?) (more)

Stuck in place: How older adults end up trapped inside their own homes. Seven months ago, Betty Gray could climb the 11 inside steps leading to her Berkeley apartment, though it would take her about 15 minutes. (more)

Richard Bartlett: The original Microsolidarity Proposal. Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity. Or: What To Do in the Last Decade of the Anthropocene (more)

Jake Archibald: How to win at CORS CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is hard. It's hard because it's part of how browsers fetch stuff, and that's a set of behaviours that started with the very first web browser over thirty years ago. Since then, it's been a constant source of development; adding features, improving defaults, and papering over past mistakes without breaking too much of the web. (more)

John Pavlovitz: Will White Christians Finally Elect Jesus' Way Over Their Whiteness? *The 45th President (Donald Trump) has been many things since arriving on our political landscape in 2015: a national embarrassment, a global punchline, an environmental disaster, a divider of people, a prolific murderer of the English language. (more)

Byrne Hobart: Bullshit Jobss is a Terrible, Curiosity-Killing Concept. David Graeber died in 2020, but "Bullshit Jobs" still gets thrown around a lot. I was uncomfortable with the concept, but had never read the book so I didn't feel especially comfortable being dismissive. This was a mistake. If you don't own a copy, don't bother buying one. If you own a copy, consider reading it an act of meta-anthropology, exploring why a professional anthropologist could be so relentlessly, aggressively incurious about the lives and experiences of others. (more)

Dan Hon: s16e14: The Torment Nexus Section; RFPs, man. RFPs. Registration is now open for Hallway Track 002 Journalism, News, and Federated Social Networks. (more)

Matt Stoller: Congressional Republicans to Defund the Antitrust Division? Only, now there are a few problems. (more)

Seniors, leaving the house daily may help you live longer. New research finds that older people who leave their homes every day are likelier to live longer than those who remain indoors, regardless of their health status or functional capacity. (more)

A General Theory of Network Governance: Exchange Conditions and Social Mechanisms; Author(s): Candace Jones, William S. Hesterly and Stephen P. Borgatti. A phenomenon of the last 20 years has been the rapid rise of the network form of governance. This govemance form has received significant scholarly attention, but, to date, no comprehensive theory for it has been advanced, and no sufficiently detailed and theoretically consistent definition has appeared. Our objective in this article is to provide a theory that explains under what conditions network governance, rigorously defined, has comparative advantage and is therefore likely to emerge and thrive. Our theory integrates transaction cost economics and social network theories, and, in broad strokes, asserts that the network form of governance is a response to exchange conditions of asset specificity, demand uncertainty, task complexity, and frequency. These exchange conditions drive firms toward structurally embedding their transactions, which enables firms to use social mechanisms for coordinating and safeguarding exchanges. When all of these conditions are in place, the network governance form has advantages over both hierarchy and market solutions in simultaneously adapting, coordinating, and safeguarding exchanges. (more)

Book by John Ratey (1998) ISBN:0553379593 (more)

Karl Schroeder story "Degrees Of Freedom" from Hieroglyph Stories. (more)

First book from the Hieroglyph Project (more)

Venkatesh Rao: A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars. the United States is in the middle of the worst culture wars I’ve seen in my life, either in my 20 years in the US, or in the previous 20 years in India (which in the 90s saw equally ferocious, but less digitally mediated, culture wars). And for once, you can’t blame Donald Trump. He’s more consequence than cause. (more)