Enron's Kenneth Lay died a couple days ago. He was convicted in May on six counts of fraud and conspiracy and four counts of bank fraud, and was free on a $5 million bond while awaiting his sentencing, which was scheduled for this fall. (more)

eater of meat and veggies - see Omnivore's Dilemma (more)

The Natural Language Toolkit, or more commonly NLTK, is a suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing (NLP) for English written in the Python programming language. It was developed by Steven Bird and Edward Loper in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania.[4] NLTK includes graphical demonstrations and sample data. It is accompanied by a book that explains the underlying concepts behind the language processing tasks supported by the toolkit,[5] plus a cookbook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Language_Toolkit https://www.nltk.org/

WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus. While it is accessible to human users via a web browser,[2] its primary use is in automatic text analysis (natural language processing) and artificial intelligence applications. It was first created in the English language[3] and the English WordNet database and software tools have been released under a BSD style license and are freely available for download from that WordNet website. There are now WordNets in more than 200 languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet (more)

Output (Communication) made meaningless/misleading through sloppy word-choice (Critical Thinking). See also BullShit, Cognitive Bias, Misinformation/Disinformation. (more)

Neuro Linguistic Programming. http://www.idea-seminars.com/articles/whatsnlp.htm (more)

When the Scientific Method doesn't seem to be working in the short-to-medium-term. (more)

The Wise Democracy Pattern Language: Envision and co-create a deeply participatory culture that generates policies and activities that support the longterm quality of life... We seek to appreciate, evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the whole on behalf of the whole. https://www.wd-pl.com/ (more)

The term "co-intelligence" refers to a shared, integrated form of intelligence that we find in and around us when we're most vibrantly alive. It is also found in cultures that sustain themselves harmoniously with nature and neighbor. (subset than Collective Intelligence?) (more)

Cluster of people who developed a Group Pattern Language. https://groupworksdeck.org/ (more)

Gretchen Rubin book https://gretchenrubin.com/books/the-four-tendencies/ (more)

Pondering a claim-refactoring UI. You'd highlight a sentence, as in hypothes.is (annotation systems), and ask "what does this really mean?" (more)

Dorian Taylor: Dog Days. The Summer of Protocols, which started in May, is close to ending its run. We spent the last week of July at a retreat just outside Seattle, mainly partaking in meet-and-greet exercises and collaboration sessions, as well as a focus on an ur-product that encapsulates the entire program, and the impact we want it to have. (more)

A language defined by David Bourland to reduce Semantic Noise. (more)

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty by Albert O Hirschman ISBN:0674276604 (more)

Balaji Srinivasan: Miami Tech Week: The Start Of Startup Cities. With Miami Tech Week, that moment has arrived. A critical mass of technologists just left San Francisco to alight for balmier climes. The movement that Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Founders Fund Partner Keith Rabois began just a few months ago has achieved escape velocity. (StartUp City) (more)

demented and sad, but social (more)

created Velocity, an animation engine used by Samsung, Uber, WhatsApp, and thousands more. https://www.julian.com/about

Summary: Treat human interactions like Improv, co-creation, dancing. (more)

Gretchen Rubin: Habit Strategies and Tips for Rebels. Many Rebels are very interested in learning how to harness the tremendous strengths of both habits and of the Rebel Tendency to help themselves become happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. (more)