see also Slack.com - app by Stewart Butterfield (more)

Bitcoin (₿) is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.[7] Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. The cryptocurrency was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto.[8] The currency began use in 2009[9] when its implementation was released as open-source software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin (more)

Chris Dixon: The Crypto Price-Innovation Cycle. People who’ve been in crypto for a long time view the space as evolving in cycles, alternating between periods of high activity and “crypto winters.” There have been three cycles so far. The first peaked in 2011, the second in 2013, and the third in 2017 (more)

HighLight, Annotation, Note Taking (more)

Aakash Gupta: How to Turn Claude Code into an Operating System with Carl Vellotti. (for product management) (more)

Philosophy created by Alfred Korzybski. His key book was Science And Sanity, which I have but will probably never read in full. (Here's the archive of an online reading group from 1996.) (more)

aka Beer Garden (more)

Focusing software (esp SaaS) development on the mobile environment (requiring a very different UX) before desktop-web

see Issue Tracker

New Yorkers, Have You Found Your Microscene? New York is a city of countless different creative communities and, like all groups bound by affinity, they tend to stick together, find their own haunts and form their own rituals (more)

Theory of Constraints extender-guru, see esp Logical Thinking Process book https://www.linkedin.com/in/billdettmer/

Logical Thinking Process : A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving book/process from William Dettmer ISBN:0873897234 (2007), updating/refining Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints process (see ToC Thinking Processes). (more)

Carlota Perez's Technological Revolutions And Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages ISBN:9781843763314, reading because Fred Wilson recommended it. (Published 2002!) (more)

Brad Stone (born c. 1971) is an American journalist and author.[1] He is the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek since January 2024. He is the author of the books The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013), Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire (2021), The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World, and Gearheads: the Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Stone_(journalist)

AI-driven device created in Diamond Age that acts as coach-via-StoryTelling for some young women. (Educational Technology) (more)

It seems like Gmail is Blocking Some FluxGarden Registration Emails - got a few bounces today with (more)

Rival Voices: For the past 6 (nearly 7!) years I've been trying to articulate a cluster of ideas. (more)

biggest part of Big Media (more)

see IOS for Internet Operating System (web2.0, etc.) (more)

Steve Yegge: The Anthropic Hive Mind. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off... This whole post is just spidey-sense stuff. Don’t read too much into it. Just hunches. Vibes, really. (more)