Neuroticism or negativity is a personality trait associated with negative emotions. It is one of the Big Five traits. People high in neuroticism experience negative emotions like fear, anger, shame, envy, or depression more often and more intensely than those who score low on neuroticism.[1] Highly neurotic people have more trouble coping with stressful events, are more likely to insult or lash out at others, and are more likely to interpret ordinary situations (like minor frustrations) as hopelessly difficult. Neuroticism is closely-related to mood disorders such as anxiety and depression.[2][3][4] Individuals who score low in neuroticism tend to be more emotionally stable and less reactive to stress. They tend to be calm, even-tempered, and less likely to feel tense or rattled. Although they are low in negative emotion, they are not necessarily high in positive emotions, which are more commonly associated with extraversion and agreeableness.[5] Neurotic extroverts, for example, would experience high levels of both positive and negative emotional states, a kind of "emotional roller coaster". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism (more)

ICP in Category Pirates frame; esp earlyvangelist

key "event" for Category Pirates

book Signals & Levers: Systems Thinking Tools to Unblock Software Delivery, (Systems Thinking, Thinking Tools) by Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi, ISBN:1966280297 (more)

Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like "shoe-heart"; March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician. He is sometimes also known as the grandfather of statistical quality control[1], inventor of the Shewhart chart and the Shewhart cycle.[2] W. Edwards Deming said of him: "As a statistician, he was, like so many of the rest of us, self-taught, on a good background of physics and mathematics." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_A._Shewhart

John Robb: The Collapse of Complex Nations. If the US did collapse, what would it look like? (more)

How Linear.app got so popular. Linear was just there one day and everyone loved it. (more)

founder, linear.app

issue tracker https://linear.app/ - new, not as huge as Jira but plenty big! (more)

design shop and WebApp builder/hoster (more)

Thirty7 Signals book - see (2009-10-13) Rework 37s Book

The Thirty7 Signals crowd has a new book on the way, now called Re Work. Unlike last time, they went with a traditional publisher, so there won't be a super-cheap open-EBook available, though there will probably be a Kindle version, etc. Even though we had tremendous success self-publishing Getting Real, we decided that this time we wanted to write a best seller. We want to sell hundreds of thousands or millions of copies. We couldn't do this on our own, so we decided to work with a traditional publisher. (more)

Experiment without Limits, a self-improvement book by Chris Sparks. (2019-08-13) Sparks Experiment Without Limits Inside The Creative Process (more)

In reviewing Ted Gioia's The Jazz Standards, Benjamin Schwarz notes how much jazz leveraged the "Great American Songbook". Items from the Songbook form by far the largest portion of Gioia’s selections, and indeed of any conceivable version of the jazz repertoire. The great overlap between the Songbook and the jazz catalogue largely explains a fact that troubles Gioia—that his book can enshrine “few recent compositions”—and raises doubts about his assertion, supported by passion rather than by argument, that “the jazz idiom [is] a vibrant, present-day endeavor.” (Syncopated Music) (more)

the music of pop culture

Karl Schroeder story "Degrees Of Freedom" from Hieroglyph Stories. (more)

In many scientific fields, the degrees of freedom of a system is the number of parameters of the system that may vary independently. For example, a point in the plane has two degrees of freedom for translation: its two coordinates; a non-infinitesimal object on the plane might have additional degrees of freedoms related to its orientation. Another example is the hand having 27 independent degrees of freedom. In mathematics, this notion is formalized as the dimension of a manifold or an algebraic variety. When degrees of freedom is used instead of dimension, this usually means that the manifold or variety that models the system is only implicitly defined. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom

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)

Ambient Genius. In January, 1975, the musician Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt released a set of flash cards they called “Oblique Strategies". (more)

The Lounge Lizards are a jazz group formed in 1978 by saxophonist John Lurie and his brother, pianist Evan Lurie... Drawing on punk rock and no wave as much as jazz, The Lounge Lizards have since become respected for their creative and distinctive sound... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lounge_Lizards (more)