Qualtrics, LLC is an American experience management company, with co-headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and Provo, Utah, in the United States. The company was founded in 2002 by Scott M. Smith, Ryan Smith, Jared Smith, and Stuart Orgill.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualtrics (more)

aka Meta-Cognition

thinking about thinking, thinking at the Meta Level (more)

Are.na is an online social networking community and creative research platform founded by Charles Broskoski, Daniel Pianetti, Chris Barley, and Chris Sherron.[1] Are.na was built as a successor to hypertext projects like Ted Nelson's Xanadu, and as an ad-free alternative to social networks like Facebook, forgoing "likes," "favorites," or "shares" in its design. Are.na allows users to compile uploaded and web-clipped "blocks" into different "channels," and has been described as a "vehicle for conscious Internet browsing," "playlists, but for ideas," and a "toolkit for assembling new worlds."... Co-founder Charles Broskoski began working for Rhizome's John Michael Boling and Sapient Corporation's Stuart Moore in the early 2010s, coding prototypes of a platform which would containerize knowledge into "informational building blocks." Soon after, Broskoski brought artist Damon Zucconi and K-HOLE's Dena Yago onto the project. Broskoski, Yago, and Zucconi eventually split off to found Are.na, soon joined by co-founder Chris Sherron (also of K-HOLE) and Dan Brewster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are.na (more)

Dena Yago is an artist, writer, and founding member of the trend forecasting group K-HOLE. In addition to her visual practice, she works as a cultural strategist with the artist-based consultancy Applied Arts. Recent exhibitions and presentations include JTT (forthcoming, 2023); Barbe à Papa, CAPC, Bordeaux (2022); Industry City, High Art, Paris (2022); Image Power, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2020); Dry Season, Derosia, New York (2020); Force Majeure, High Art, Paris (2019); and Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016). Recent publications include Fade the Lure (After Eight Books, 2019). Her writing has appeared in e-flux journal, Flash Art, and frieze magazine. Yago received her B.A. from Columbia University in 2010, and lives and works in New York City. https://www.art.yale.edu/about/people/dena-yago (more)

co-founder, K-HOLE; now writing the 8ball newsletter https://www.8ball.report/ (more)

Artist Collective turned TrendWatch report machine. (more)

Mike Maples Sr. (August 25, 1942 – January 9, 2025) was an American technology executive best known for his role as Executive Vice President of the Worldwide Products Group at Microsoft. Joining the company in 1988, Maples played a pivotal role in shaping Microsoft's product development and organizational structure during a period of rapid growth. He was instrumental in the development of MS Office and was known for introducing the concept of autonomous product units within the company. Maples retired from Microsoft in 1995 and later served on various corporate boards and engaged in philanthropic activities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Maples_Sr.

son of the OG Mike Maples

Cosma Shalizi on Development Economics and Economic Growth. By a "developed" economy, people roughly mean ones with a high, persistently-growing per-captia income which is not simply based on resource extraction (i.e., oil) or remittances or rentierism (more)

Matt Zeigler: My Personal Strategy Guide To Do LESSS In 2026. Year-end lookbacks mean year-ahead planning. You’re probably there right now, too. I know I am. I figured it might be worth writing my framework down and sharing it here. (more)

Jon Lebkowsky: The Mirrorshades anthology, edited by our cohost Bruce Sterling, surveyed a literary subgenre that was called cyberpunk not because the term had any precise meaning (it didn't), but because it worked as a catchy marketing bite, a buzzword representing ideas and memes that had resonance more through attitude than content. The vague term cyberpunk became a conceptual mirror, reflecting rather than conveying meaning. Over time `cyberpunk' referred less to a sci-fi subgenre, and more to a movement that was the beatnik underside of the evolving digital culture, encompassing the countercultural fascinations of the 90s -- the computer underground, rave/house culture, zine culture, designer psychedelics, goth morbidity, etc. (more)

neo-Enlightenment triggered by spread of the Network Society: see (2021-07-07) Network Enlightenment (more)

Recognition that the Internet allows for a larger portion of institutions/Social Organization (not just the Network Economy) to be based on Networks of small groups and individuals where large Command And Control organizations were previously necessary. (more)

aka Post-Industrial New Economy? (more)

Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley (more)

In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth, or the hero's journey, is the common template of a broad category of tales and lore that involves a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed (transformation).[1] The study of hero myth narratives started in 1871 with anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor's observations of common patterns in plots of heroes' journeys.[2] Later on, others introduced various theories on hero myth narratives such as Otto Rank and his Freudian psychoanalytic approach to myth,[3] Lord Raglan's unification of myth and rituals,[2] and eventually hero myth pattern studies were popularized by Joseph Campbell, who was influenced by Carl Jung's view of myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey (more)

The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, based on the GNU GPL version 3 and the Affero General Public License (non-GNU). It is intended for software designed to be run over a network, adding a provision requiring that the corresponding source code of modified versions of the software be prominently offered to all users who interact with the software over a network.[6] The Open Source Initiative approved the GNU AGPLv3[3] as an open source license in March 2008 after the company Funambol submitted it for consideration through its CEO Fabrizio Capobianco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_License (more)

http://www.opensource.org/ (more)

The Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org/ or http://www.gnu.org/ (more)