"The Problem of Thinking Too Much", a 2003 talk by Persi Diaconis (more)

Extending past Progress conversation with NotebookLM on potential for a NetworkEnlightenment.... (2025-06-14) Collaborative Groups Of Thinkers That Instigated Significant Technological And Political Changes (more)

Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The $140,000 Question. There was a no good, quite bad article by Michael Green that went viral. (2025-11-23) Green Poverty Line Is A Lie (more)

see (2013-07-03) Orlov Communities That Abide

Dmitry Orlov series on "Communities that Abide" (started Jul'2013): 1 2 3 (more)

*While many economists argue that America’s working families are more prosperous than ever before, families themselves feel that they have come under increasing economic pressure (precarity). The families are right. (more)

Michael Green: Part 1: My Life Is a Lie. Markets, liquidity, factor models—none of these ever felt self-evident to me. Markets are mechanisms of price clearing. Mechanisms have parameters. Parameters distort outcomes. This is the lens through which I learned to see everything: find the parameter, find the distortion, find the opportunity. But there was one number I had somehow never interrogated. The poverty line. (more)

Michael Green: Part 2: The Door Has Opened. The wealth you’re counting on—the retirement accounts, the home equity, the “nest egg” that’s supposed to make this all worthwhile—is just as fake as the poverty line. But the humans behind that wealth are real. And they are amazing. — Part 1. (Re (2025-11-23) Green Poverty Line Is A Lie) (more)

Observation Orientation Decision Action (Observation, Orientation (model?), Decision/Decision Making, Action) (more)

Sasha Chapin: A Brief Practical Guide to Being an Infinite Player. I was riveted, moved, and completely annoyed (by Finite And Infinite Games)... what an irritating style of writing! (more)

CEO Astera Institute. Before joining Astera, Cate was a co-founder of Alvea, a company developing shelf-stable, inhalable vaccines for pandemic response, and led the company's medical, regulatory, and operational functions while it took a drug candidate to a Phase 1 clinical trial within 6 months of the company's founding. Previously, she was the number one female poker player in the world, and a Supreme Court-barred attorney. https://www.theinstitute.com/fellow/cate-hall

writer; book author All The Wrong Moves (about playing pro chess) (more)

Stowe Boyd: ‘Kanbanibalization’ in Obsidian. Originally posted 2022-10-21: Note that these ideas have progressed in the year since, and I will be moving the materials formerly on Medium back to Substack. Expect more to appear. (more)

Dead PIM product, first released 1992. 1994 article says Victor Cruz, spokesman for Lotus Development Corp., says Lotus stopped developing Agenda after selling only 100,000 copies. They thought Agenda was too difficult to learn, so they bought a no-brainer program called the Threads Organizer (I guess this was Lotus Organizer) from a company in the United Kingdom. Threads looks like a notebook and a day calendar, so it is obvious what it does. Agenda is more subtle. Lotus has sold 450,000 copies of Threads. (more)

Gene Kim sequel to Phoenix Project, with more framing provided by Business Strategy and data-backed Product Management (Agile Product Development). ISBN:1942788762 https://itrevolution.com/the-unicorn-project/ (more)

"authoritative" source of a type of info within an organization - so there are probably multiple systems of record (see Unicorn Project) - ideally one each for a type of info - the problem arises when multiple apps "might" be the system of record. (more)

Hiten Shah: Why Trello Failed to Build a $1 Billion+ Business (more)

What are the LLM Harms and Risks? Is there a good/reputable "list"? Is it ranked? (more)

I've been in the habit of using a "Drafts" chrome extension as a quick notepad. The problem is that it makes pretty HTML, but then that doesn't paste nicely into a wiki page. (more)