Libertarian who can live with a Safety Net: 2006-12-15-Liberaltarian (more)

http://www.stigmergicsystems.com/ Stigmergic Systems - smells related to WikiWeb and BlogWeb. The term stigmergy derives from the way colonies of insects Self Organize, to tell each other where to find food and to build complex architectural structures... The basis of a stigmergic system is a location on the Web where people can represent themselves as agents... There are several important areas of information where algorithms, search engines and database technology have difficulties with indexing and classification. These are where there is: ambiguity; high volatility; subjective content; high rates of technological change; classification of people; classification of services; etc. In these problematic information areas, there is a need for multiple levels of categorization and a means of being able to compare conflicting or alternative information. This use of stigmergy provides an elegant and low cost solution by providing a self organizing framework to allow people to be represented by agents for the purpose of exchanging and comparing information and knowledge. (more)

Apps that make it easy to save an article for later Reading (more)

For work, I have to connect to the VPN to use SequelAce to query MySql (using my MacBookPro. (more)

actually pair of books, Computer Lib/Dream Machines - by Ted Nelson (more)

Seminal work about HyperText by Ted Nelson, inspired generations of programmers. (more)

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

Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours book by Noah Kagan ISBN:059353977X. StartUp, Startup Idea Generation... (more)

Summary: create multiple short consistent documents of your current business strategy/product strategy, to help people throughout the organization make decisions, generate ideas, etc. (more)

1932-2007. Author. Highly recommend Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy as a first read. Prometheus Rising for Brain Training. http://www.rawilson.com/ (more)

Originally a HyperCard stack (delivered on a batch of 5 floppy disks!) in 1991. Beyond CyberPunk!, by Peter Sugarman and Gareth Branwyn. (more)

Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Drop Out Culture ISBN:0936756926 by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Ron Sakolsky and others. (more)

annual recurring revenue

aka monthly recurring revenue (revenue) cf ARR

idea of a variation/subset of the World Wide Web which has fewer of the ugly bits (Small World) - less advertising/surveillance capitalism? less disinformation? less web browser monoculture? More Indie? (more)

Traditional "management", even most software product management, is Industrial-Age Command-and-Control thinking that is net-negative for managing creatives. We need a re-framing of Agile Software Development with a business-building software Product Development mindset. Rapidly Iterative based on FeedBack. A bit post-Lean-Startup. (more)

Ash Maurya business model quick-test - see backlinks below

Brad DeLong: A Return of "Management Cybernetics" as a Way Forward Out of Economics-Based Neoliberalism? I signed up to write an 800-word review of Dan Davies’s brand-new The Unaccountability Machine. (2024-07-04 DelongHowHumanityLostControl) (more)

Brad DeLong: How Humanity Lost Control. How can we be at least 15 times richer than our pre-industrial Agrarian Age predecessors, and yet so unhappy? (more)

Eric Nehrlich: The Unaccountability Machine, by Dan Davies. I read an online excerpt of this book and was immediately intrigued by the idea of an “accountability sink”, which is a mechanism by which “The communication between the decision-maker and the decided-upon has been broken – they have created a handy sink into which negative feedback can be poured without any danger of it affecting anything.” (more)