If I were nudging a 15-30yo semi-normie/newbie toward becoming a reality hacker, what would I slide over? (Subliminal Subversives, Systems Thinker) (more)

I would like you to go home and ponder the meaning of the word subversive. (in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age) (more)

Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs/ ⓘ AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.[1][2][3][4] His bibliography spans nearly 50 books,[5][6] including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley (more)

Dorian Taylor: Spreadsheet Rantifesto. Alan Kay famously said to choose the right data structure before you start tinkering around with the algorithm…you will have most of the result computed almost automatically as part of its inherent structure. Which is why the spreadsheet as the go-to data structure is so lamentable. In general, I never want data as it comes in a spreadsheet. I almost always want it as a graph, or at least a tree. Graphs and trees—at least ordered trees like XML or JSON—can embed tabular data, such as that found in a spreadsheet, but the same cannot be said for the other way around. (more)

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American psychologist [1] and computer scientist considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style Interactive computing, and its application to all manner of activities; and also as an Internet pioneer, with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built. He did much to actually initiate all that through his funding of research which led to a great deal of it, including today's canonical graphical user interface, and the ARPANET, the direct predecessor to the Internet... In 1960 his seminal paper on ManComputerSymbiosis foreshadowed interactive computing, and he went on to fund early efforts in time-sharing and application development, most notably the work of Douglas Engelbart, who founded the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and created the famous On-Line System (NLS) where the computer mouse was invented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider (more)

Often used to inspire software "engineers" to improve their Project Management practices. (more)

aka Expo (more)

productivity consultant, business coach https://www.rjnestor.com/ (more)

LambdaMOO is an online community[1] of the variety called a MOO. It is the oldest MOO today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO (more)

Are web Browsers starting to fully block non-SSL sites? (more)

want to build Random antilibrary/ToRead-Paragraph app (cf random note) (more)

In doing Agile Product Development, there can be a tension between a "top-down" (I don't mean exec-driven, I mean mental-stack) Product Vision/Product Strategy/Strategic Context/Conceptual Integrity and an incremental/iterative process of Thinking In Bets. (more)

Is there a conflict/tension between Effectuation and Coherence? (more)

There are lots of frameworks/etc to layer on top of AI tools like Claude Code for non-coding knowledge work/etc. I decided to try out Peter Kaminski's PKAI starter kit. (I know him, and he has a Discord support-community...) (more)

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: 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)

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)

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)