biggest part of Big Media (more)

Like a retrospective, but triggered more by a specific "event", most often a production outage or important bug... which means there's a certain urgency to "fixing" it (Time to Restore Service as one of the Four Key Metrics), but you need to generate enough info during the fixing process to be able to agree afterwards (a) what was actually/fundamentally broken, (b) what correction actually fixed it, and (c) what that implies for preventing a recurrence. (more)

Going to repeat yesterday's process with some other model. (2025-06-14) Collaborative Groups Of Thinkers That Instigated Significant Technological And Political Changes (more)

Networked Non-Market Inventions: Steven Johnson framing/quadrant from Where Good Ideas Come From (with LLM descriptions of creation: context: (2025-06-15) Non-NotebookLM Collaborative Groups Of Thinkers That Instigated Significant Technological And Political Changes (more)

John Allspaw: What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause.’ In recent years, the understanding that failure in complex systems requires multiple contributors coming together to produce these surprising events that we call incidents has gained traction. (more)

Ed Zitron: The Man Who Killed Google Search. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. (more)

Rebecca Wirfs-Brocc: Observations on Growing a Software Design Umwelt. Pattern authors ostensibly are experts on the topic their patterns address. Since most software developers don’t share those experts’ underlying design values, practices, and principles—let alone their design context—there’s a disconnect between what is said in pattern descriptions and that which is perceived and understood by pattern readers (more)

Rebecca Wirfs-Brocc: Discovering Our Software Umwelt. Last week ¾ of the family Wirfs-Brock present the talk, “Discovering Your Software Umwelt”, at the Onward! Essay track of the SPLASH 2024 conference... The back story on how we wrote our essay: Initially, we had no idea what we could write about together… (more)

aka Oprah Winfrey (more)

ActivityPub is an open, decentralized social networking protocol based on Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol.[1] It provides a client/server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content... The social networking software, Mastodon, implemented ActivityPub in version 1.6, released on 10 September 2017. It is intended that ActivityPub will offer more security for private messages than the current OStatus protocol does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub (more)

creator/operator of the HomeTown flavor of Mastodon. (more)

Bret Steven Taylor (born 1980) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He is most notable for leading the team that co-created Google Maps and his tenures as the CTO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms), as the chairman of Twitter, Inc.'s board of directors prior to its acquisition by Elon Musk, and as the co-CEO of Salesforce.com (alongside co-founder Marc Benioff). Taylor was additionally one of the founders of FriendFeed and the creator of Quip. Since 2023, he is the founder of Sierra (an AI startup), chairman of OpenAI, and a board member of Shopify. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Taylor

"Meaningness" https://meaningness.com/ and Fluid Mode writer (more)

David Chapman: Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution. Subcultures are dead. I plan to write a full obituary soon. Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why? (tldr: sociopaths enter the scene, monetize-better while creating-mediocrely, diluting the cool/energy; only the creator-geeks really care, because the consumer wasn't that invested anyway) (more)

Things that make it hard/impossible for a business to enter a market already served by someone else (more)

The Lunar Society was a discussion club, of a number of prominent industrialists and scientists, who met regularly in the latter half of the 18th century in Birmingham, England. The society's name came from their practice of scheduling their meetings at the time of the full moon (in that time of no street lighting, the extra light made the journey home easier)... The Lunar Society evolved through various degrees of organisation over a period of up to fifty years, but was only ever an informal group. No constitution, minutes, publications or membership lists survive from any period, and evidence of its existence and activities is found only in the correspondence and notes of those associated with it... Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., Robert Augustus Johnson, James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Society (more)

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high agency - a personality trait (more)

Make explanations ADEPT: Use an Analogy, Diagram, Example, Plain-English description, and then a Technical description. (more)

History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline. Similar debates surround the purpose of history—for example, whether its main aim is theoretical, to uncover the truth, or practical, to learn lessons from the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities