Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.[Note 1] Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; absence of systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long after the pseudoscientific hypotheses have been experimentally discredited.[4] It is not the same as junk science. Not to be confused with non-science or antiscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience aka woo

attempt to increase the use of the Scientific Method in HealthCare (more)

want to build Random antilibrary/ToRead-Paragraph app (more)

a Computer Scientist and complete geek. I am a Software Developer at Microsoft, working on Word Copilot as a full-stack developer, with an emphasis on backend services. (more)

Nathan Schneider (born 1984) is a scholar, activist, and journalist. Since 2015, he has been a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder... Schneider was among the first journalists to cover the Occupy Wall Street movement during its planning stages... Following his reporting on Occupy Wall Street, Schneider began to focus on stories related to co-operative economics. For Vice magazine, he wrote the most complete profile to date of Enric Duran, the Catalan activist and fugitive who founded the Catalan Integral Cooperative and Faircoop.[25] For The Nation, he reported on "How Pope Francis Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics."[26] He also published a number of articles and interviews on emerging cooperative business models for online platforms. Schneider has been a leading advocate for platform cooperativism. In November 2015, together with New School professor Trebor Scholz, Schneider co-organized a two-day conference billed as "a coming-out party for the cooperative Internet."[27] Over 1,000 people attended, including figures such as legal scholar Yochai Benkler, New York City Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo, and Zipcar founder Robin Chase. This led to the publication of a book, which Schneider co-edited with Scholz, Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet, published in 2016 by OR Books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Schneider (more)

a startup that has no chance of a profitable exit, but isn't shut down: maybe it's still eating runway, and the investors aren't bothering to get their money back, or maybe it's profitable, but not enough for anyone to want it.

Context: CEO (or equiv) is concerned about Product team/process ROI. (more)

Context: joining a start-up that has launched its MVP but not yet reached Product-Market Fit. (more)

Brian Balfour: There are four essential fits: Market Product Fit (not Product Market Fit), Product Channel Fit, Channel Model Fit, Model Market Fit. I'm going to dedicate a post to each of these fits, along with how you can apply this framework. (more)

Social Game developer: FarmVille, MafiaWars, etc.

breakout Zynga game

Evan Armstrong: How to Make Millions on Discord. When I’m evaluating a tech company, one of my most important filters is distribution—the way a company grows. Does the founder have a novel, repeatable way to acquire customers? (more)

aka Total Addressable Market: total potential realistic revenue from a market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_addressable_market

The Amazon Spheres are three spherical conservatories comprising part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle, Washington, United States. Designed by NBBJ and landscape firm Site Workshop, its three glass domes are covered in pentagonal hexecontahedron panels and serve as an employee lounge and workspace. The spheres, which range from three to four stories tall, house 40,000 plants, as well as meeting space and retail stores. They are located adjoining the Day 1 building on Lenora Street. The complex opened to Amazon employees and limited public access on January 30, 2018. The spheres are reserved mainly for Amazon employees, but are open to the public through weekly headquarters tours and an exhibit on the ground floor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Spheres (more)

Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It. The poppy’s power, in fact, is greater than ever. The molecules derived from it have effectively conquered contemporary America. Opium, heroin, morphine, and a universe of synthetic opioids, including the superpowerful painkiller fentanyl, are its proliferating offspring. More than 2 million Americans are now hooked on some kind of opioid, and drug overdoses — from heroin and fentanyl in particular — claimed more American lives last year than were lost in the entire Vietnam War (more)

see Ben Franklin

unique name of a network on the Internet (more)

see Notebook, Note Taking, Note Making....

Alexander Obenauer: The Interfaces With Which We Think. Binary is how our chips process logic. But the apps, windows, desktops, notifications, and such — these are all constructs of human imagination. This is true of nearly all the systems, metaphors, and interface patterns we’ve built on top of our binary-crunching chips. Today, our abstractions are holding us back. (more)

April M Short: Could Tech Startups Become Community-Owned Co-Ops? Nathan Schneider, assistant professor of media studies and director of University of Colorado Boulder’s Media Enterprise Design Lab—a think tank for community ownership and governance in media organizations—spoke on the Laura Flanders Show about the drawbacks of the “conventional” startup model, and the necessity for alternatives. (more)