Lean Startup guru https://www.leanfoundry.com/ (more)

co-author Illuminatus Trilogy

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute (more)

A norm entrepreneur or moral entrepreneur is an individual, group, or formal organization that seeks to influence a group to adopt or maintain a social norm; altering the boundaries of altruism, deviance, duty, or compassion.[1] Moral entrepreneurs take the lead in labeling a particular behaviour and spreading or popularizing this label throughout society. This can include attributing negative labels to behaviour, the removal of negative labels, positive labeling, and the removal of positive labels. The moral entrepreneur may press for the creation or enforcement of a norm for any number of reasons, altruistic or selfish. Such individuals or groups also hold the power to generate moral panic; similarly, multiple moral entrepreneurs may have conflicting goals and work to counteract each other. Some examples of moral entrepreneurs include: MADD (mothers against drunk driving), the anti-tobacco lobby, the gun-control lobby, anti-pornography groups, Black Lives Matter and LGBT social movements [citation needed]. Pro-life and pro-choice movements are an example of two moral entrepreneurs working against each other on a single issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_entrepreneur (more)

Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. (September 19, 1907 – August 25, 1998) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987... He worked for Hunton & Williams, a large law firm in Richmond, Virginia, focusing on corporate law and representing clients such as the Tobacco Institute. His 1971 Powell Memorandum became the blueprint for the rise of the American conservative movement and the formation of a network of influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organizations, such as The Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council. In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Powell to succeed the late Associate Justice Hugo Black. He retired from the Court during the administration of President Ronald Reagan, and was eventually succeeded by Anthony Kennedy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.

On August 23, 1971, prior to accepting Nixon's nomination to the Supreme Court, Lewis Powell was commissioned by his neighbor Eugene B. Sydnor Jr., a close friend and education director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to write a confidential memorandum for the chamber entitled "Attack on the American Free Enterprise System," an anti-Communist and anti-New Deal blueprint for conservative business interests to retake America.[17][18] It was based in part on Powell's reaction to the work of activist Ralph Nader, whose 1965 exposé on General Motors, Unsafe at Any Speed, put a focus on the auto industry putting profit ahead of safety, which triggered the American consumer movement. Powell saw it as an undermining of the power of private business and a step toward socialism.[17] His experiences as a corporate lawyer and a director on the board of Phillip Morris from 1964 until his appointment to the Supreme Court made him a champion of the tobacco industry who railed against the growing scientific evidence linking smoking to cancer deaths.[17] He argued, unsuccessfully, that tobacco companies' First Amendment rights were being infringed when news organizations were not giving credence to the cancer denials of the industry.[17] (more)

Mike Caulfield: Doubt Versus a Bayesian Outlook. There was a simple but profound realization Big Tobacco had 50 years ago — they didn’t have to refute the conclusion of the science that clearly, even back then, pointed to tobacco as a primary cause of lung cancer. They just had to introduce doubt. (more)

Vice President of the USA under Bill Clinton (more)

"I could have done more, but it didn't seem worth it.* (pareto principle, good enough, opportunity cost)

Pamela J. Hobart: Bayesian Goal Updating. One day, you wake up and set a goal. Goal A...you do not achieve Goal A. It's not even clear you're making good progress. (more)

book by Neal Stephenson, ISBN:0553380966 (more)

Bushra Farooqui: The Ghost of "The Old Curiosity Shop" in "The Diamond Age". While re-reading Stephenson, it’s helpful to consider Diamond Age from the lens of its traditional predecessor, the allusion that lingers between the pages, unspoken, but felt—Charles Dickens’ dark 1840 tale, The Old Curiosity Shop. (more)

aka pseudo-science? Or post-rat? https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=woo&category_name=&submit=Search (more)

Main character in series of books by Michael Underwood. (more)

TeamGarden CategoryDesign (more)

Dialogue process? Created by Alexander Christakis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Christakis; book ISBN:1517757649 (more)

Central tenet of General Semantics, as defined by Alfred Korzybski. A good reminder against Model Theism. (more)

The mental practice of acknowledging the uncertainty/risk of every belief or decision or action. (more)

system of using your organization's GroupChat system as a communication channel for automated operations systems (alerts, notifications, status changes, etc.); can extend into deeper no-code integration into other tools (e.g. slack-command to create a jira ticket). (more)

Group Chat app by Stewart Butterfield https://slack.com/ (more)