CategoryPirates: The Pirate's Guide To AI: How To Build With AI Like It's The Greatest Co-Founder You’ve Ever Had [Part 1]. We’re entrepreneurs, writers, strategists, and Category Designers. We’re Pirates from the future helping you succeed now. And into the future. AI is a big part of how you’ll create a new and different future. (more)

CategoryPirates: Category Superpower: Why Your Greatest Strength Depends On Making A Difference For Others. The personal development market is worth over $40 billion and is growing. There’s a ton of content out there about how to be a great employee, manager, entrepreneur, partner, and communicator. Books like Damn Good Advice, Think And Grow Rich, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. (more)

CategoryPirates: Identity At Scale: How We Built The Pirate Eddie Bot, And How To Create Your Own. In 2023, product expert, writer, and Substack superstar Lenny Rachitsky launched something different. (more)

CategoryPirates: Open Letter From Pirate Katrina: On To Another Chapter. ..already seen Pirate Bri’s name pop up. She’s running the latest Category Design Academy cohort and making fast connections with the crew. (more)

Two Visions of Humanity's Future by Marshall Brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel) ASIN:B007HQH67U - free online http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm (more)

Marshall David Brain (born May 17, 1961[1]) is an American author, public speaker, and entrepreneur. A college instructor and computer programmer, Brain is the founder of HowStuffWorks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Brain (more)

Shanaka Anslem Perera: The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme. At precisely 4:00 PM Eastern Time on November 19, 2025, Nvidia Corporation released third-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations (more)

Lester Carl Thurow (May 7, 1938 – March 25, 2016) was an American political economist, former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of books on economic topics... Thurow was a longtime advocate of a political and economic system of the Japanese and European type, in which governmental involvement in the direction of the economy is far more extensive than is the case in the United States – a model that has come to be known as "Third Way" philosophy. Thurow supported a more universal patent system as a requirement for a knowledge-based economy, where governments would assess the value of infringements of intellectual property against their companies by competitors in foreign jurisdictions and allow these companies to match that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Thurow

Matt Stoller: How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul. It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who had been swept into office on a promise to clean up government, end the war in Vietnam, and rid the nation’s capital of the kind of corruption and dirty politics the Richard Nixon White House had wrought. (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

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Post-Keynesian economics is a school of economic thought with its origins in The General Theory of John Maynard Keynes, with subsequent development influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Sidney Weintraub, Paul Davidson, Piero Sraffa, Jan Kregel and Marc Lavoie. Historian Robert Skidelsky argues that the post-Keynesian school has remained closest to the spirit of Keynes' original work.[1][2] It is a heterodox approach to economics[3][4] based on a non-equilibrium approach.[5]... Post-Keynesian economists are united in maintaining that Keynes' theory is seriously misrepresented by the two other principal Keynesian schools: neo-Keynesian economics, which was orthodox in the 1950s and 60s, and new Keynesian economics, which together with various strands of neoclassical economics has been dominant in mainstream macroeconomics since the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Keynesian_economics (more)

John Kenneth Galbraith[a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as J K Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.[1][2] He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy (aka price controls), to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith

‘Bezzle’ was coined by John Kenneth Galbraith to describe the blissful and often long moment when an embezzlement has occurred but before it’s been discovered. The embezzler has his money. The victim still thinks he has his. It’s the gravity-defying interval when Wile E. Coyote is running on air and hasn’t begun to fall. Adopted by Cory Doctorow for a fiction book title. cf Con-Game (more)

An increase in aggregate prices. (more)

I’m a speaker, consultant, author, toolmaker, and strategy professor at UCL. I’ve spent over a decade researching the difference between risk and uncertainty — I’ve now broadened my scope to explore the wider range of types of not-knowing that we face. https://vaughntan.org/

Gary Klein (born February 5, 1944, in New York City, New York, U.S.) is a research psychologist famous for pioneering in the field of naturalistic decision making.[1] By studying experts such as firefighters in their natural environment, he discovered that laboratory models of decision making could not describe it under uncertainty. His recognition-primed decision (RPD) model has influenced changes in the ways the Marines and Army train their officers to make decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_A._Klein (more)

2011-06-30-GooglePlusLaunches: Google Plus is launching, their new Social Networking product line. Google Circles (Universal Canvas), Google Sparks, Google Hangouts (Video Chart), Instant Upload, Google Messenger (Group Messaging). (more)

Amazon Meeting Memo variant: Press Release + FAQ (more)

a document answering FrequentlyAskedQuestions (more)