In professional wrestling, kayfabe (/ˈkeɪfeɪb/) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged. The term kayfabe has evolved to also become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the direct or indirect presence of the general public.[1] Kayfabe, in the United States, is often seen as the suspension of disbelief that is used to create the non-wrestling aspects of promotions, such as feuds, angles, and gimmicks in a manner similar to other forms of fictional entertainment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

Parasocial interaction (PSI) refers to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in the mass media, particularly on television and on online platforms.[1][2][3][4] Viewers or listeners come to consider media personalities as friends, despite having no or limited interactions with them. PSI is described as an illusory experience, such that media audiences interact with personas (e.g., talk show hosts, celebrities (celebrity), fictional characters, social media influencers) as if they are engaged in a reciprocal relationship with them. The term was coined by Donald Horton and Richard Wohl in 1956. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

An attempt to integrate a bunch of past pages, imagining an ecosystem that includes all the legacy BigWorld crap, but supports a way for a network enlightenment to emerge.... (more)

System for certain kinds of groups to share their own digital gardens with each other, not the whole world. From Social Warrens. (Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts) (more)

Post Office Protocol (more)

Human Agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_agency (more)

Andrew Pickering (born 1948) is a British sociologist, philosopher and historian of science at the University of Exeter. He was a professor of sociology and a director of science and technology studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until 2007. He holds a doctorate in physics from the University of London, and a doctorate in Science Studies from the University of Edinburgh.[1] His book Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics (1984)[a] is a classic in the field of the sociology of science.... He authored The mangle of practice: Time, agency and science (University of Chicago Press, 1995), where he develops a performative conception of scientific practice, focusing on non-human agency and strongly contributing to the posthumanist trend of Science and Technology Studies. His most recent book, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future traces the history of British Cybernetics after the Second World War. Pickering considers Cybernetics as a type of nomad science that, instead of seeking to dominate reality as its modern counterpart (thus leading to processes of enframing, following Heidegger) rather develops an ontological theatre between humans and non-humans. In this book, Pickering explores projects that intertwine, for instance, technology, psychiatry, spirituality, education and, of course, brain sciences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Pickering

"Tendency" framing from Gretchen Rubin: (2018-07-16) Heres Exactly Why You Finish Some Things And Not Others - "nobody can tell me what to do, not even me". cf Subversive, Reality Hacker?

I find that people capable-of/comfortable-with Reflective Thought are the best Wiki participants. Esp. if they are able to use a D And D mentality for Framing. Tends to also be a systems thinker? (more)

idea of a variation/subset of the World Wide Web which has fewer of the ugly bits (Small World) (more)

Max Read: How to Substack. Today, October 18, is Read Max’s third anniversary (more)

Kyle Chayka: The internet’s distribution problem. Everyone online is talking about distribution. (more)

Kyle Chayka: The new rules of media. There’s an old-school magazine editorial format that goes something like “The New Rules for [X]” or “The New Way to [Y],” posing a tongue-in-cheek surety. (more)

when you think your a/b test told you something was true, and it wasn't (error type)

Founding Team: Key people in Start Up. Can be fuzzy to define (more)

Empowered Product Team - Martin Cagan frame. See also Whole Team.

a team (esp product team) that includes people performing all the functions necessary to deliver an increment. Should also have the Agility, Context, and Team Agency to do so. Also called empowered product team. (more)

Book by Reed Hoffman and Chris Yeh. ISBN:0008303630. Model: ignoring profitability to grow as fast as possible to create a near-monopoly, after which enshittification provides profit.

Hi, my name is Charity, and I am professionally caremad about computers. I am an operations and database engineer and sometimes engineering manager. Right now I am the CEO and cofounder of Honeycomb, where we build observability for distributed systems. (“Monitoring” doesn’t have to be a dirty word; give us a try.) https://charity.wtf/ (more)

We are a community space focused on shaping the future of user-agent systems. Our goal is to empower individuals with software that enables them to create their own agency. https://www.userandagents.com/ (more)