Peter Schwartz has a new (June2003) book Inevitable Surprises (ISBN:1592400272). (more)

Number Two Son is doing NaNoWriMo for school (TAG). Being in 4th grade, his target is only 20k words. (more)

A nice profile of the TAG programs in the Barrington Il Public School system.Worse than students not being challenged or interested in school, the teachers and administrators agree, is students assuming that learning always will come easily. Julie says that bright students who haven't been nurtured or challenged by a gifted program at an early age often come undone when they enter high school or college and the academic load suddenly becomes demanding. Georgia Nelson says that when students learn without having to try, one consequence is a belief that trying to learn is a sign of Failure... Currently, 760 students in third to eighth grade are in the extended services program, which includes extended art classes. Keeping track of the number of gifted students at Barrington High School becomes difficult, she says, because of the overlap among honors, honors gifted, and Advanced Placement classes. The only real gifted program is the grades 3-5 program, which has ~50 kids total, out of ~3k kids in the district in those grades.

This is a copy of an email I just received from Number Two Son's fifth-grade (Elementary School) teacher - this is Barrington Il's Public School TAG program. I think it captures the awesomeness of the Self Contained program there... (see also 2009-10-15-BarringtonTag) (more)

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My research investigates the intersection of computing, human-system interfaces, and emancipatory politics. I am interested in the potential of computing as a medium for thought, as a tool for collective action, and as a means of emancipation. My current focus is basic research into the nature of digital organisation, developing theoretical toolkits to improve shared infrastructure, and applying this research to the design of new systems and protocols which support the self-organisation of knowledge and computational artifacts. https://www.orionreed.com/ (more)

aka Facebook Threads, Meta Threads. Threads is an online social media and social networking service operated by Meta (Facebook) Platforms. The service features integration with Instagram and users must register for Threads with an Instagram account. Functionally it is similar to X: users can post text, images, and videos, as well as interact with other users' posts through replies, reposts, and likes. The application is available on iOS and Android devices; the web version offers limited functionality and requires a mobile app to be installed first. Upon its launch, Threads became the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, gaining over 100 million users in its first five days and surpassing the record previously set by ChatGPT.[2][3][4] This early success was not sustained, and the user base of the app plummeted more than 80% to 8 million daily active users by the end of July 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(social_network)

Per Axbom: The many branches of the Fediverse. Federated? What does that mean? All the different instances of Mastodon can talk to each other. All the different instances of Pixelfed can talk to each other. And all the different instances of Mastodon can talk to all the different instances of Pixelfed. (more)

Shane Crowley (edibotopic): Trying Arroost. I've been playing around with an early version of Arroost, a node-based tool for live sampling. (more)

Lu Wilson: I went to an algorave.vI’ve been trying to express myself with code for a while. (more)

Ash Maurya business model quick-test - see (2024-06-28) Maurya Stop Wasting Time On Unviable Business Ideas

Ash Maurya: Don’t rush outside the building. "Get outside the building" is one of the battle cries of the Customer Development/Lean Startup movement. (more)

(named in honor of british "Mind The Gap") (more)

Lenny Rachitsky interviews Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics) about Pattern Breakers: How to find a great startup idea. (more)

*Lead user is a term developed by American economist Eric von Hippel (Von Hippel 1986). His definition for lead user is: (more)

the apparent behaviors of apparently-successful BigCo-s in a given industry (more)

You Would Rather Endure Small Electric Shocks Than Sit Alone With Your Thoughts, Study Finds. In 11 studies, we found that participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think, that they enjoyed doing mundane external activities much more, and that many preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts. (Mind The Hole) (more)

could be a numeric diagram/plot, like 3D Graph (more)

A small Tribe to support you and provide connection. (more)

see Tribal, Tribalism, Homophily; SmallTribe, The Craft, Culture War, Eastern Standard Tribe, Phyle, primate; normie/NPC, outgroup (more)