Erlend Sogge Heggen: Age of Coordination. This is a meandering piece! It's a mashup of ideas revolving around interoperability that will be a lot easier to understand if you've already read Web of the People and Assembling Community OS. (more)

Gordon Brander: Layered protocols. Following up on The Internet is Modular, and Compositional Components, Emergent Protocols, a few more thoughts on modularity, this time on layering: (more)

Profile of the Brown University Semiotics program that Steven Johnson was in. Ferdinand De Saussure coined the term semiologie while teaching his landmark "Course on General Linguistics" at the University of Geneva from 1906-11... "I was dazzled by this hope," wrote RolandBarthes, author of the ground-breaking book "Mythologies" (1957), "to give my denunciation of the self-proclaimed petit-bourgeois myths the means of developing scientifically; this means was semiology."... And though the works of semioticians were only part of a larger syllabus of recent literary and film theory, the phrase "Brown semiotics" began to take on a larger signification, one that involved expensive black clothes and European cigarettes and a certain kind of hyper-intelligent ideological refusenik." Semiotics . . . was like a Conspiracy Theory to beat all conspiracy theories," Ira Glass remembers. "It wasn't just that authority figures of various sorts did things that were questionable . . .. It's that language itself was actually a system designed to keep you in your place, which when, you know, you're 19 or 20 is pretty much exactly what you're ready to hear.".. The "problematic" with semiotics was that by becoming a means of interrogating the ideological assumptions of bourgeois pleasure, semiotics itself became a form of bourgeois pleasure. "It was like an exclusive, self-contained puzzle for super-smart, super-rich kids," recalls novelist Samantha Gillison, a Brown Classics concentrator in the 1980s... Recalling those heady days, Scholes smiles and quotes the philosopher John Wisdom: "Every day, and in every way, we're getting meta and meta.".. Steven Johnson found he had developed a prose style that sounded like he was translating himself "from the French." Meanwhile Glass, was in anguish about how to convert the theoretical "open text" he had postulated in his undergraduate thesis into something that could actually make it on the radio. "I have to say it took years to wash it away," says Glass...

Steven Johnson recommends A Symphony In The Brain by Jim Robbins during a talk about his Mind Wide Open. (NeuroScience, biofeedback)

life-coaching? https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/about

a Minimal Compact? (more)

like a Personal Server/hosted server, but made up of mesh of functions running in various parts of the cloud. cf serverless (more)

It seems like Gmail is Blocking Some FluxGarden Registration Emails - got a few bounces today with (more)

SendGrid's free plan used to last forever (at a low volume), but they've now capped it at 6mo.

Artificial Intelligence (more)

see William Ross Ashby

W. Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 in London – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby. His two books, Design for a Brain and An Introduction to Cybernetics, were landmark works. They introduced exact and logical thinking into the brand new discipline of cybernetics and were highly influential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Ross_Ashby (more)

John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence.[1] He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)

Byron Kathleen Mitchell, (née Reid; born December 6, 1942) better known as Byron Katie, is an American speaker and author who teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work of Byron Katie" or simply as "The Work". She is the founder of Byron Katie International, an organization that includes the School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California. Time Magazine describes her as "a spiritual innovator for the 21st century." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie (more)

author of How to Take Smart Notes

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers, by Sonke Ahrens ISBN:1542866502. Book on the Zettelkasten method. (more)

Kevin Carson: Deep Trust, Shallow Trust, and Phyles. A recent exchange between Venessa Miemis inspired me to add a section to the chapter on phyles and other networked economic platforms, in my Desktop Regulatory State manuscript: The Value of the Phyle as Opposed to Other Models of Collaboration. (more)

Venessa Miemis: How Will We Collaborate if We Can’t Trust Each Other? A few years ago, I had a big snowcrash moment about the power of networks and the web, envisioning the amazing potential that could be unleashed if we could just build our networks and weave them all together. (more)

very small schools variant

aka UnitedStates, US, United States Of America (more)