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)

complex problem problem-solving approach embracing uncertainty, from Saras Sarasvathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saras_Sarasvathy (more)

aka effectual reasoning

Robert Kegan (born August 24, 1946) is an American developmental psychologist, author, and consultant. He was the William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he taught for forty years until his retirement in 2016.[1] Additionally he was the Educational Chair for the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education and the Co-director for the Change Leadership Group.[2] He is a licensed psychologist and practicing therapist, has lectured widely to professional and lay audiences, and consults in the area of professional development and organization development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan Books: Evolving Self, In Over Our Heads, How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work, An Everyone Culture. (more)

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), or the Big Beautiful Bill (P.L. 119-21), is a U.S. federal statute passed by the 119th United States Congress containing tax and spending policies that form the core of President Donald Trump's second-term agenda. The bill was signed into law by Trump on July 4, 2025.[1][2] Although the Act is popularly referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, this official short title was removed from the bill during the Senate amendment process. Therefore, the law has no official short title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act (more)

one flavor of Welfare Reform, where people are required to work, or given work to do, in return for their Public Assistance. Often end up really being Bullshit Jobs. (more)

Thomas Harold Massie (born January 13, 1971) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, Massie has been the United States representative for Kentucky's 4th congressional district since 2012. Raised in Vanceburg, Kentucky, Massie earned two degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on computer simulation.[2][3][4] He later founded a startup based on that work, returning to Kentucky after selling the company. In 2010, Massie was elected judge-executive of Lewis County. A libertarian Republican, Massie was first elected to Congress in a 2012 special election with the backing of the Tea Party movement.[5] His staunch opposition to increases in federal spending, reauthorization of warrantless surveillance programs, and interventionism have earned him the nickname "Mr. No". During President Donald Trump's second administration, Massie drew national attention for his disputes with Republican leadership over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the Jeffrey Epstein Files Transparency Act. He ran for re-election in 2026 in what was the most expensive U.S. House primary in history, losing renomination to Ed Gallrein, the Trump-endorsed candidate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie

John Boyd presentation (more)

final presentation of John Boyd (more)

There are 3 Games of Product Management, and each of these has variations based on the context. (more)

old fighter pilot responsible for OODA model (more)

Taylor Pearson on The Truth about How Creativity Really Works. John Boyd was a fighter pilot.. (more)

Associated heavily with Timothy Gallwey's series of books, starting from The Inner Game of Tennis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Gallwey#Inner_game (more)

Zen (Japanese pronunciation: [dzeꜜɴ, dzeɴ];[1][note 1] from Chinese: Chan; in Korean: Seon, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Indian Mahayana Buddhism , particularly Yogacara and Madhyamaka philosophies, with Chinese Taoist thought, especially Neo-Daoist.[2] Zen originated as the Chan school (禪宗, Chanzōng, 'meditation school') or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng),[3] and later developed into various sub-schools and branches... Chan is traditionally believed to have been brought to China by the semi-legendary figure Bodhidharma, who was an Indian (or Central Asian) monk. From China, Chan spread south to Vietnam and became Vietnamese Thiền, northeast to Korea to become Seon Buddhism, and east to Japan, becoming Japanese Zen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen

Zen Buddhism

Venkatesh Rao: The Inner Game of Exploding Minds (more)

Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

independent AI researcher and philosopher. Previously, I was a research engineer on the AGI safety team at DeepMind and worked on the Governance team at OpenAI. https://www.richardcngo.com/

book (Design Fiction?) by Adrian Hon ASIN:B00EX8QRPM http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ (more)

Technology that can be key Infrastructure either pre-Civilization (Africa) or post-Collapse. (more)