Mel Conway says Freedom is an Emergent (Phenomenon). What does politics have to do with emergence, and what is emergence anyway? That’s what this essay is about. Here is my deeper agenda: There is an important missing conversation that needs to be happening between social scientists and systems scientists...I will show that there is a single structural pattern that describes a large variety of group cohesion behaviors, some human, some not. (more)

the bird/mammal version of swarming?

Mel Conway: organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. (1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law (more)

Michael Simmons: Brutal Truth: It Takes Years To Become A $100k Thought Leader Working Part-Time (Unless You're Lucky). To be clear, for me, thought leadership is so much more than creating wealth. I was learning, journaling, and writing for years before I made any money because I love the craft (more)

Hey Zuck, get those robots out of my social feeds. For a time there was a lot of excitement about an impending Metaverse, but the buzz is now barely audible. These days everyone is enchanted by all-knowing AI chatbots, which are making their claim to be not just the future of computers but the future of everything. What’s a paradigm chaser to do? (more)

Kyla Scanlon (at EpsilonTheory): The Mr. Beast Memo is a Guide to the Gen Z Workforce. Mr. Beast is one of the most fascinating people in the world. He is somewhat of an Isaac Newton or a da Vinci… for the digital age. He is obsessively a master of his craft, making clickbait-y game show style YouTube videos. (2024-09-15) Leaked MrBeast memo on Production (more)

The ship in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy holding all the people with Bullshit Jobs, such as the telephone sanitizers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants. (more)

Ash Maurya framing of getting early validation

Melissa Perri book: Escaping the Build Trap ISBN:9781491973790

Emergent Tokyo: DESIGNING THE SPONTANEOUS CITY ISBN:1951541324 https://oroeditions.com/product/emergent-tokyo (more)

see audio, syncopated music, music sharing, musical instrument, live performance, etc. (more)

aka Split Test Experiment (more)

A P2P secure network protocol. Intended for sharing only within a smallish group, not with the net at large. (more)

McSweeney's Lists Donald Trump's 1056 Atrocities. Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten.

GNU Guix (/ɡiːks/[2]) is a functional cross-platform package manager and a tool to instantiate and manage Unix-like operating systems, based on the Nix package manager. Configuration and package recipes are written in Guile Scheme. GNU Guix is the default package manager of the GNU Guix System distribution.[3] Differing from traditional package managers, Guix (like Nix) utilizes a purely functional deployment model where software is installed into unique directories generated through cryptographic hashes. All dependencies for each software are included within each hash.[4][5] This solves the problem of dependency hell,[6] allows multiple versions of the same software to coexist and makes packages portable and reproducible. Performing scientific computations in a Guix setup has been proposed as a promising response to the replication crisis... Guix packages are defined through functional Guile Scheme APIs specifically designed for package management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix (more)

designing user interfaces, online brands and information architectures for some of the UK's biggest companies (BBC, etc.) (more)

LÖVE is an awesome framework (game engine) you can use to make 2D computer games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. https://love2d.org/

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. You can try it in your web browser right now. Decker builds on the legacy of HyperCard and the visual aesthetic of classic MacOS https://beyondloom.com/decker/ (more)

David Thompson: Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted. For the first time ever, Guile came out on top with the most submissions! There’s a very specific reason for this outcome. 11 out of the 15 Guile games were built for the web with Hoot, a Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler that I work on at the Spritely Institute. (more)

tools for thought researcher https://jessmart.in/ (more)