the claude interface/layer that's intended especially for coding, though it doesn't have to be limited to that; among other things, it has the benefit of being able to work with your local files (though it also interacts with your github). (more)

Dorian Taylor: Media for Understanding Situations. there’s a flipside to categories, and that’s associative, analogical, that-reminds-me-of kinds of relationships. My argument, which I gave as a conference talk nine years ago, is that the physical and economic characteristics of analog media constrain its geometric and topological properties, in ways that make it extremely difficult to deviate from a pattern of information being arranged into large, opaque chunks, (more)

Dorian Taylor: For the Umarell In Your Life. Further elucidation of my plan to run a “cozy private alpha” of my organizational cartography kit, the essay that got me calling it that, and a final installment from last year's Summer of Protocols. (more)

Dorian Taylor: À Propos Current Events. A survey of one small aspect of the current (geo)political situation, and what I'm doing about it. (more)

Chief of staff (or head of staff) is a leadership title with different meanings in civilian and military organizations. In civilian government organizations and businesses, a chief of staff is a primary aide-de-camp to an important individual, such as a president or leader of a large organization... In civilian organizations, a chief of staff provides a buffer between a chief executive and that executive's direct-reporting team. The chief of staff generally works behind the scenes to solve problems, mediate disputes, and deal with issues before they are brought to the chief executive.[1] Often a chief of staff acts as a confidant and advisor to the chief executive, acting as a sounding board for ideas. Ultimately the actual duties depend on the position and the people involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_staff

a founder of Socialtext, Yipes Communications, Nano Space, NETCOM Online, and PDIAL... https://peterkaminski.wiki/ (more)

Fascinating article about the mayoral terms of Antanas Mockus in Bogota Colombia. Urban Design, Civil Society, Engagement. One time, he asked citizens to put their power to use with 350,000 "thumbs-up" and "thumbs-down" cards that his office distributed to the populace. The cards were meant to approve or disapprove of other citizens' behavior; it was a device that many people actively - and peacefully - used in the streets. (more)

Kyle Eschenroeder on Depression, Loneliness, and Invisible Asymptotes. (more)

probably the key to Customer Retention (more)

Double Decision. Double Decision is the current version of the speed training cognitive intervention used in the ACTIVE study (more)

“The traditional approach to learning is to define the objectives (the gap between the knowledge a person has and the knowledge the person needs to perform the task), establish the regimen for practice, and provide feedback. Learning procedures and factual data is seen as adding more information and skills to the person’s storehouse of knowledge. However, this storehouse metaphor is poorly suited for cognitive skill, and does not address the differing learning needs of novices and experts. Teaching cognitive skills requires the diagnosis of the problem in terms of flaws in existing mental models, not gaps in knowledge. It requires learning objectives that are linked to the person’s current mental models. It requires practice regimens that may have to result in “unlearning” that enables the person to abandon the current, flawed mental models. It requires feedback that promotes sensemaking. We propose a Cognitive Transformation Theory to guide the development of cognitive skills. Finally, we present several strategies that might be useful in overcoming barriers to understanding and to revising mental models. https://thecynefin.co/library/cognitive-transformation-theory/

Steve Yegge: "I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same AI adoption footprint as John Deere, the tractor company. Most of the industry has the same internal adoption curve: 20% agentic power users, 20% outright refusers, 60% still using Cursor or equivalent chat tool. It turns out Google has this curve too.* (more)

Gary Bencivenga's Marketing Maxims. Based on decades of scientific testing, here are my favorite maxims (short, easy-to-remember guiding principles) on how to… (more)

A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, one of the species of the genus Tuber. More than one hundred other genera of fungi are classified as truffles including Geopora, Peziza, Choiromyces, and Leucangium.[1] These genera belong to the class Pezizomycetes and the Pezizales order. Several truffle-like basidiomycetes are excluded from Pezizales, including Rhizopogon and Glomus. Truffles are ectomycorrhizal fungi, so they are found in close association with tree roots. Spore dispersal is accomplished through fungivores, animals that eat fungi.[2] These fungi have ecological roles in nutrient cycling and drought tolerance.[3] Some truffle species are prized as food.[4] Edible truffles are used in Italian, French[5] and other national hautes cuisines. Truffles are cultivated and harvested from natural environments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle (more)

One of the Things I Love, esp Dark Chocolate (more)

a healthier source of caffeine? (also an "interesting" ice cream flavor)

like green tea, but even more like dirt/dust

Default Friend: I LIKE Labubus and Dubai Chocolate and Matcha and Lana and Brandy Melville and TikTok Aesthetics and and and. Today, in his newsletter, W. David Marx (who, as an aside, is a must-read) wrote about an Amanda Mull piece on the disorienting nature of contemporary trends: Labubus and Dubai chocolates and matcha and chamoy and Swedish candy, all things that seem to emerge from nowhere, mean nothing, and disappear just as quickly. (2025-08-14-MarxOnlyFadsACultureandEconomyOfLabubu) (more)

The problem "above" the Problem you started with. (meta, meta-game)

Daniel Bendisi Kokotajlo[1] is an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher. He was a researcher in the governance division of OpenAI from 2022 to 2024,[2] and currently leads the AI Futures Project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kokotajlo (more)