Most of my professional career has been spent at consumer internet companies. The world wide web was just heating up when I finished my undergrad education, and like many grads from Stanford, tech was always top of mind. I started off at Amazon.com and was there for seven years working on all sorts of things, but mostly product. I left Amazon to be a filmmaker, went to editing school at The Edit Center in NYC, then to UCLA Film School in their graduate directing program. But tech pulled me back in after just one year in film school. That summer I joined the company that would become Hulu, leading the product, design, editorial, and marketing teams. In 2011 I formed a startup called Erly with a few friends. We were purchased in 2012 by Airtime, and I left that in late 2012. I was the head of product at Flipboard for two years, then the Head of Video at Oculus, which I left in July 2017. I'm now working on some of my own ideas, most of which sit at the intersection of media and technology, as well as doing some advising and angel investing. https://www.eugenewei.com/

that would be us...and other apes, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate (more)

Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes ISBN:0801886562 by Frans De Waal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal#Books (status games among primates)

self-improvement author: Atomic Habits, etc. https://jamesclear.com/

book by Keith Johnstone on Improv

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962; second edition 1970; third edition 1996; fourth edition 2012) is a book about the history of science by the philosopher Thomas Kuhn. Its publication was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of scientific knowledge. Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of progress in science in which scientific progress was viewed as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of conceptual continuity where there is cumulative progress, which Kuhn referred to as periods of "normal science", were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. The discovery of "anomalies" during revolutions in science leads to new paradigms. New paradigms then ask new questions of old data, move beyond the mere "puzzle-solving" of the previous paradigm, change the rules of the game and the "map" directing new research.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions

Paradigm shift (more)

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (/kuːn/; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn

Michael Dubakov: The Next Wave of Work Management Software (NoCode). Vendors: Airtable, Zenkit, Notion, Coda. (more)

Mozilla project - global community of innovators like you, building a more AweSome web and world. Connect with others. Find great projects. Or share your own. (more)

In the coming months, users of Thimble — Mozilla’s browser-based, educational code editor — should migrate their projects to Glitch. Glitch is a platform similar to Thimble, where users can easily build and publish apps, web pages, and more, for free. cf Mozilla WebMaker

Mozilla WebMaker is Mozilla's educational initiative, and Webmaker's goal is to "help millions of people move from using the web to making the web." As part of Mozilla's non-profit mission, Webmaker aims "to help the world increase their understanding of the web, take greater control of their online lives, and create a more web literate planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#Webmaker (more)

The launch of the new Mozilla WebMaker means we’ll be making changes to the current suite of Webmaker tools: XRayGoggles, Mozilla Thimble, AppMaker, and Popcorn Maker. These tools have been critical to so many of our mentors around the world, and we’re devoted to continuing their legacy through our new educational resources. And as always, we’ll work with the community to ensure this evolution is as smooth as possible. (cf Mozilla Drumbeat)

To turn docs into apps, Coda had to rethink productivity from scratch. (CollaborationWare) Coda does, however, have a clear vision of the sort of people it wants to please. When the service formally announced itself a year ago, Mehrotra wrote a blog post that referenced one user’s description of the service as “Minecraft for docs.” Like the block-building game phenom, Coda is less about what it does right out of the box than what people can build atop it; it’s a tapestry for ambitious creativity. The company calls its users “makers.” (more)

James Clear: Book Summary: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone. The Book in Three Sentences. Many of our behaviors are driven by our desire to achieve a particular level of status relative to those around us. People are continually raising and lowering their status in conversation through body language and words. Say yes to more and stop blocking the opportunities that come your way. (more)

Michael Simmons: Forget The 10,000-Hour Rule (TenKHours); Edison, Bezos, & Zuckerberg Follow The 10,000-Experiment Rule. Deliberate experimentation is more important than deliberate practice in a rapidly changing world. (more)

Patrick O'Shaughnessy on Improvisation. The topic of this post is an obscure book called “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre” which was recommended to me twice in a day by 1) a standup & comedy writer (my sister) and 2) a coder turned philosopher (Kevin Simler). (more)

Elaine Ou on Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre. Improv is action without censorship. (more)

Whenever you spend some time on a Project, you should write a note about that "session". It can include (more)

Founder of Home Fair, economist. http://www.arnoldkling.com/ (more)