Note-spaces that are "like" wiki but might not be TrulyWiki (more)

Robert Heron "Bob" Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. A law professor by training, he was acting United States Attorney General from 1973 to 1974 and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Senate rejected his nomination after a contentious and highly publicized confirmation hearing... He became a prominent advocate of originalism, calling for judges to adhere to the original understanding of the United States Constitution, and an influential antitrust scholar, arguing that consumers often benefited from corporate mergers and that antitrust law should focus on consumer welfare rather than on ensuring competition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork

Glitch's WebApp Hosting is shutting down. There are a couple of reasons we’re making this decision right now. It takes a lot of time and money to run millions of apps, and that has greatly increased as the platform has gotten older and bad actors try to misuse the platform. (more)

Anil Dash: It's Time for Something New. After nine years, most recently at Fastly and before that at Glitch (and Fog Creek), I am very soon (finally!) going to be taking some time off from working to catch my breath and clear my mind and focus on the new Mario Kart. And, you know, spend time my family and friends and all that good stuff. (more)

David Maister frame for how to think about yourself as an advisor. (consultant, personal finance advisor, lawyer, doctor... any expert?) One key frame is that you have to care more about your client than yourself. (more)

David H. Maister (born July 21, 1947) is a former Harvard Business School professor, American writer and expert on business management practices and the management of professional service firms (incl consulting). He is best known for writing Managing the Professional Service Firm and co-writing The Trusted Advisor with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford. Born and raised in London, England, Maister became a citizen of the United States in 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Maister

creator of edge.org

John Brockman's now-online salon, aka Edge Network. http://www.edge.org (more)

Capital Gains that haven't been turned into cash yet

How Saudi money returned to Silicon Valley. It was in late March that Silicon Valley decided that it’s no longer shameful to accept massive investment dollars from Saudi Arabia. (more)

Andreessen-Horowitz co-founders explain why they're supporting Donald Trump. ...boils down primarily to one major issue – he believes Trump’s policies are much more favorable for tech, specifically for the startup ecosystem. (more)

Martina Lauchengco: I’m a great director of marketing. Why am I not a VP? Years ago, I watched a talented director of marketing take a high-profile startup from stealth to launch to millions in revenue (more)

Casey Winters: Fire Every Bullet. In crisis situations, a new style or management and prioritization has to occur. Andy Grove famously called this “wartime”, and he and others like Ben Horowitz have described what it’s like to be a “wartime” CEO. I haven’t ever seen anything written about being a wartime CPO though. (more)

David Gerard: Crypto is going great: KuCoin busted, how Kickstarter shot itself in the foot with blockchain, Tether goes AI. (more)

Dave Troy: We mapped Jeffrey Epstein's social network. Here's what we found. ...we performed such an analysis, focusing on five characters central to the current controversy: Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Rupert Murdoch. We included Epstein's entire, unredacted “black book,” as well as the flight logs for his private jet, the Lolita Express. (more)

Why Ben and Felicia Horowitz made a shocking political U-turn. In July 2018, at one of Ben Horowitz and Felicia Horowitz’s annual star-studded backyard barbecues at their Atherton estate, Black entertainment and media luminaries Gayle King, Tina Knowles, Terry Crews, and Van Jones mingled with Silicon Valley royals Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan... These kinds of gatherings — of liberal politicians dancing and partying with left-leaning celebrities and tech moguls — were typical for the Horowitzes, who became Silicon Valley power players through Ben’s role in the influential venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz. And their guest list made sense: The Horowitzes were committed Democratic donors. Flash forward to today, and Ben Horowitz has publicly endorsed Donald Trump and — in partnership with co-founder Marc Andreessen — plans to give a “significant” amount of money to his campaign. (more)

*In social science generally and linguistics specifically, the cooperative principle describes how people achieve effective conversational communication in common social situations—that is, how listeners and speakers act cooperatively and mutually accept one another to be understood in a particular way. The philosopher of language Paul Grice introduced the concept in his pragmatic theory: (more)

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable online live chat service with file sharing, search, and integrations. It is designed as an internal chat for organisations and companies, and mostly markets itself as an open-source alternative to Slack.com[9][10] and Microsoft Teams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattermost (more)

From the Great Depression through now. 2 separate Economic Transitions. (A Brain Fart started in 2009.) (more)

Co-ops other than food. Generated by ChatGPT after (2025-09-14) Phyle vignettes. (more)