Jeremy Wagstaff: How A Twitter Scrap, and Covid-19, Reveal a Disruption In Process. When is innovation just another stab at the past, and when is it revolutionary? When it becomes a bit of a Twitter storm in a teacup, is possibly when. (more)

Taylor Pearson on the Hero's Journey. There was a bluegrass band I used to go see when I lived in Birmingham, Alabama. The only thing I remember from the concerts is the fiddle player. She just looked like she was doing exactly what she was supposed to be doing with her life. You could feel it and it was really beautiful and amazing to watch. (more)

Tim Bray says Bye, Amazon. May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19. (more)

Amplenote: Bidirectional note linking, and an offer for Roam importers. Over the past year, users of every major note-taking app have clamored for better connectivity between notes in the form of bidirectional linking. Today, we're debuting our own take on this popular feature request. (Two-Way Links) (more)

Venkatesh Rao gives a Seldon checklist (cf Asimov Foundation) (more)

Ben Hunt: Inception. We’re going to change the world, you know … you and me. (more)

How many different spaces should be out there? Why/when create a new space? (more)

Activity (or huge invention?) hitting exponential growth section of Adoption Life Cycle. See Venkatesh Rao: 2016-02-19-RaoUnicornsAndBandwagons

a BHAG or a pointlessly-risky Big Project? A step toward Space Migration or distraction? (more)

Aaron Z Lewis: The spreading of threading. My Twitter feels like a local library. Each one of my Twitter friends is tending to their own little corner of the internet, sharing their best material, and responding to my random research questions. There are a lot of knowledgable folks out there, but Visakan Veerasamy is the ultimate librarian. See also (2018-11-15) Books Vs Tweets. (more)

cf culture jamming

see College Education, College Tuition, College Savings, Alternatives To A College Degree

No, not that one! (more)

Ben Hunt: Once in a Lifetime. We will never win this war until we regain our sense of empathy, until we regain our ability to appreciate the pain that others endure in their struggle against this common enemy. (more)

Ben Hunt: Bear Stearns and the Narratives of Systemic Risk. In May 2007, Bear Stearns – one of the crown jewels of Wall Street – traded at nearly $160 per share. The S&P 500 peaked five months later, in October 2007. Five months after that, in March 2008, Bear Stearns was taken out in the street and shot in the head by regulators. The stock closed at $2 per share that day (more)

Daemons are good or malevolent "supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes" (see Plato's Symposium). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology) (more)

Future of Text leader

Welcome to the Liquid Information Company, where the aim is to build ever more powerful interactive text interactions to enable a deeper literacy (Deep Literacy). http://www.liquid.info/ (more)

Andy Matuschak: Why books don't work. (Printed Book) The powerful ideas are often invisible: it’s not like we generally think about cognition when we sprinkle a blog post with links. But the people who created the Web were thinking about cognition. (more)

Author of the famous "Memex" As We May Think essay in 1945. (more)