Group Discussion Live Chat - mainly for team or large groups. For family/friends, see Group Chat. (Bah these 2 pages are a mess, the line is too fuzzy.) (more)

Joe Procopio: The Unlikely Rise Of The Tech Industry Castoffs. Unsexy is the new sexy, and a misfit army of entrepreneurs are building unsexy tech for customers again. (more)

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big. Small Giants takes readers deep inside 14 remarkable companies that have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying goals—like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, and making great contributions to their communities. In exploring these “small giants,” Bo Burlingham shows how every company can benefit by questioning the usual definitions of business success. https://boburlingham.com/other-books/ (more)

operating outside traditional/big institutions - Micro-SaaS/Micro-ISV, Micropreneur, One-Man Show, Two-Pizza Company, SmallCo, Neo-Victorian, Arts And Crafts, Co-op, SmallWorld/SmallWeb, SlowWorld (?), Bespoke, Boutique, Small Batch ((2009-07-31) Linderman Boutique Biz Rename), Situated Software, Life-Style Company, NanoCorp, Auteur Theory, Grunt-Fund, Co-op, Bootstrapping (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Revenge of the Dilettantes. (more)

Anson Yu: sparkly people and how to find them. I am constantly delighted by the people I get to spend time around. I attribute it to judgement exercised over time (more)

Bruce Sterling: The Big Idea. ...my latest short story collection, “Robot Artists and Black Swans,” which is American science fiction re-imagined as Italian fantascienza. (more)

Category Pirates: 7 steps to start writing your $100 book. Every year, millions of people say they want to write a book. Almost none of them do. (more)

CategoryPirates: 10 AI prompts to create a powerful and compelling POV. Most founders, creators, and entrepreneurs think they have a Point of View (POV). (more)

Itay Dreyfus: What comes after Roam's renaissance? A new year has come. It's 2024 and note-taking isn’t cool anymore. The once-blooming space has had its moment. Moreover, the almighty Roam Research isn’t the only king anymore. The hype is officially over. (more)

Gwern: Nenex: A Neural Personal Wiki Idea. If Vannevar Bush or Douglas Engelbart were designing a ‘neural wiki’ from the ground up to be a ‘tool for thought’, taking GPT-4-level LLMs for granted, what would that look like? (more)

Erik Hoel: Why do most popular science books suck? In the science section of the average bookstore rests a bunch of overhyped and uninteresting books. There are a slim number that are original and interesting—they’re there, but they’re rare (more)

Erin Sommers: Who’s Afraid of the Internet Novel? Why would anyone want to remember last week’s internet,” writes Calvin Kasulke in his 2021 novel, Several People Are Typing. “We don’t, but we want to remember the fifteen-years-ago internet and that was last week’s internet, once. Humorously, this thought is delivered by a character named Gerald, who has been sucked into his computer’s Slack app. (more)

Katie Parrott: I Started Talking to My Computer Instead of Typing. It Changed How I Think. I didn’t notice how much typing slowed my thoughts down until I realized I’d stopped. (more)

Richard Feynman process of learning and problem solving and innovation (cf Grand Challenge, Working Question) (more)

Ted Gioia: My 12 Favorite Problems. I’ve benefited in my own life by asking the same questions over and over—for a period of decades. (more)

Mike Caulfield is currently (2014) the director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver. (Before that he was employed by Keene State College as an instructional designer, and by MIT as director of community outreach for the Open Course Ware Consortium. (more)

media literacy process championed by Mike Caulfield https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/

Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes: Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0. Until the last few years, it made sense to talk in terms of a red tribe and a blue tribe when describing political affiliation. (Red Vs Blue) However, this dichotomy no longer provides a sufficient map of the political territory we find ourselves in. (more)

Jean-François Lyotard (/liːoʊˈtɑːr/; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998)[5] was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. Lyotard was a key personality in contemporary continental philosophy and authored 26 books and many articles.[6] He was a director of the International College of Philosophy founded by Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, Jean-Pierre Faye, and Dominique Lecourt.[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lyotard