Andy Matuschak concept: see esp (2020-02-20) Matuschak On Primer

Arnold Kling: Andy Matuschak on Books and Learning. (more)

NadiaEghbal: Reimagining the PhD. I think you can be a researcher in any setting! (more)

Matt Brockwell: A taxonomy of notes (more)

Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen: Timeful Texts. To engage with a book’s ideas over time, readers must remember its details, and that’s already a challenge. One promising solution lies in spaced repetition memory systems (SRS), which allow users to retain large quantities of knowledge reliably and efficiently. Like meditation, these systems involve a daily practice: every day, a reader maintains their memory library by reviewing a few dozen lightweight prompts. (more)

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Adrian Hon on Flat vs. Threaded Discussions. I don’t think that flat discussions, as typically implemented by forums like Discourse or Metafilter, are working well for communities where there is serious disagreement about how discussions should unfold. (more)

key/cliche phrase from improv

WikiStandards page listing the pages changed most recently. For this space, just use the FrontPage.

service for sharing Git-based projects - free for Open Source (more)

Adrian Hon: The Mapping Problem. But here’s the sting in the tail: the Mapping Problem means that even if we’ve solved the Mopping Problem, we haven’t solved the Violin Problem, or the Ironing Problem, or the Bin-Emptying Problem. These are all completely different. (more)

Raphael "Raph" Koster (born September 7, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, computer game designer, and author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design (2004). Koster is widely recognized for his work as the lead designer of Ultima Online[1] and the creative director behind Star Wars Galaxies.[2] From 2006 until 2013 he worked as the founder and president of Metaplace (previously operating as Areae and acquired by social gaming company Playdom in 2010, which was in turn acquired by Disney) producing a Facebook game platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster (more)

author, Reality Is Broken, SuperBetter (more)

Dialogue process? (more)

Alan Kay: "PointOfView is worth 80 IQ points." (PointsOfViewATributeToAlanKay) (more)

positive expectations for the future (more)

The US President and those beneath him - the group charged with enforcing the laws. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_branch (more)

CEO and founder at Six To Start, co-creators of the most successful smartphone physical fitness game (ARG?) in the world, ZombiesRun! We’ve won plenty of awards for our game-like stories and storylike games, and our work’s been displayed at the MOMA and Design Museum. I’m the author of A History Of The 21st Century In 100 Objects, and I used to write about technology for The Telegraph. (more)

optimism flip of paranoia, paranoid style conspiracy theory... In 1993 the writer and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow defined pronoia as "the suspicion the Universe is a conspiracy on your behalf". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoia_(psychology) (more)

Netention is a tool for describing one's current life situation (“is”), and potential future situations (“will be”) – as linked data objects. A semantic description of a human life can be considered to consist of a set of declarations representing aspects about which one is concerned or interested. Link the current and desired states of real and imaginary concepts - including people, environments, objects, processes, knowledge, or time. http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Netention (more)