Philosophy created by Alfred Korzybski. His key book was Science And Sanity, which I have but will probably never read in full. (Here's the archive of an online reading group from 1996.) (more)

the system at the meta level? aka meta-systems, systems thinking at the meta-level, or for the infinite game

John Taylor Gatto, a rebel against institutionalized education (Factory Schooling). (more)

DigitalGarden for TeamWork (more)

Apache Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. It is an Apache Software Foundation top-level project[1] designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. It is a NoSQL solution that was initially developed by Facebook and powered their Inbox Search feature until late 2010.[2][3] Jeff Hammerbacher, who led the Facebook Data team at the time, has described Cassandra as a BigTable data model running on an Amazon DynamoDB-like infrastructure.[4] Cassandra provides a structured Key-Value store with tunable consistency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra

Amazon DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It supports key-value and document data structures and is designed to handle a wide range of applications requiring scalability and performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_DynamoDB (more)

Werner Vogels on Amazon's internal DynamoDB system, internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable (Scaling Out), highly-available Key-Value storage system... We submitted the technology for publication in SOSP because many of the techniques used in Dynamo originate in the operating systems and distributed systems research of the past years; DHTs (Distributed Hashtable), consistent hashing, versioning, vector clocks, quorum, anti-entropy based recovery, etc. As far as I know Dynamo is the first production system to use the synthesis of all these techniques, and there are quite a few lessons learned from doing so. The paper is mainly about these lessons... There are many services on Amazon's platform that only need Primary Key access to a Data Store. For many services, such as those that provide best seller lists, shopping carts, customer preferences, session management, sales rank, and product catalog, the common pattern of using a Relational Data Base would lead to inefficiencies and limit scale and availability. (more)

Technology that can be key Infrastructure either pre-Civilization (Africa) or post-Collapse. (more)

Term coined by Ray Oldenburg to refer to public spaces (not those necessarily owned by the government, but where the public can gather for interaction). (Third because it's not home or work.) (more)

A neobank is a type of direct bank that operates exclusively using online banking without traditional physical branches. In contrast to direct banks, in many cases, neobanks do not have their own banking licenses, and instead rely on partner banks.[1][2][3] They typically have lower operational costs, which can sometimes result in lower fees and more competitive interest rates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neobank (more)

I just discovered Tim Carmody's New Liberal Arts (free) EBook which he put out a couple years ago. (Written with lots of other people.) Attention Economics, Brevity, Coding and Decoding, Creativity, Finding, Food, Genderfuck, Home Economics, Inaccuracy, Iteration, Journalism, Mapping, Marketing, Micropolitics, Myth and Magic, Negotiation, Photography, Play, Reality Engineering, Translation, Video Literacy (more)

Dmitry Orlov book Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, published in 2008 ISBN:0865716064 (Thin Book: 176 pages) - Survivalism bit? (more)

an effective method of Framing, a technique of Sense Making? (more)

DMOZ page (more)

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (/kuːn/; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn (more)

model, hypothesis, belief

John Cutler: TBM 389: Overthinker! From a young age, being accused of “overcomplicating” or “overthinking” things felt like a dismissal of who I was. Later, in professional settings, I struggled to stay calm when I witnessed reductionist ideas being used (often by those in power) in ways that harmed others. That pattern became my kryptonite (more)

a Risk Management financial tool/instrument (more)

The Santiago Boys — a podcast series by Evgeny Morozov. Cybersyn is an oft-referred-to hypothetical in the socialist calculation (RedPlenty) debate (more)

Humberto Maturana Romesín (September 14, 1928 – May 6, 2021) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher. Some name him a second-order cybernetics theoretician alongside the likes of Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brun and Ernst von Glasersfeld. Maturana, along with Francisco Varela and Ricardo B. Uribe, was known for creating the term "autopoiesis" about the self-generating, self-maintaining structure in living systems, and concepts such as structural determinism and structural coupling.[1] His work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of systems thinking and cybernetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Maturana (more)