The Uplift Academy is holding a workshop to design a Pattern Language. Richard P Gabriel will be leading, and Jerry Michalski will be part of the group. Note the success of the WORTH Womens Empowerment Program in Nepal. Women in Nepal face tremendous problems of poverty, and social standing. Rather than "solve" these problems, however, they focused on teaching women how to read, save their own money, and gain some autonomy. These women then went on to lobby for roads and clinics, and then tackled issues like alcoholism, domestic abuse and sex trafficking. They "dissolved" problems by amplifying the Core Values of the women... There will be an abundance of patterns of uplift, particularly as the system scales up into larger and more inclusive groups. The issue will be ways of filtering and distilling patterns, building reputations of which work best in which contexts, and ways of understanding the generativity and interaction between the patterns. (Generative) (more)

originally called Google Print http://books.google.com/ (more)

A couple interesting Invisible Content points came up the other day in a coversation with Jerry Michalski and some other folks: (more)

In conventional usage, boredom is an emotional or psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is not interested in his or her surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious. It is also understood by scholars as a modern phenomenon which has a cultural dimension. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boredom (more)

book by Erik Dietrich ISBN:0692866809 - Different take on the Gervais Principle for (corporate) developers (pragmatists, idealists, opportunists). If you are one, and you think that learning another language/framework is moving your career forward, you need to read this book. (more)

concept from Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody (more)

Dave Pollard compares Collaboration to CoOperation and CoOrdination. The term is being cheapened (“collaboration tools”, “collaborative environments”) to the point where in many people’s minds it’s indistinguishable from cooperation and coordination, which are less elaborate and less ambitious collective undertakings.

Ronald Coase, "The Nature of the Firm" - size (BigCo) driven by Transaction Cost (more)

In the American political system, the unofficial fourth branch of government refers to a group that influences the other Three Branches of the US federal government defined in the American Constitution (Legislative, Executive and Judicial). Such groups can include the press (an analogy for the Fourth Estate), the people, and interest groups. US independent administrative government agencies, while technically part of the Executive branch (or, in a few cases, the Legislative branch) of government, may also be referred to as the fourth branch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_branch_of_government

Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded and was the President of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute for decades.[1] He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent of cognitive-behavioral therapies.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ellis cf CBT, REBT

see Educational Technology

stick PIM data in text files, via/edit via Text Editor. StructuredData as YAML? (more)

creating e-learning tools, and hyperlink "school". https://awarm.space/

I was pondering the next step of CoachBot experiences/media, and a number of people have recently been tweeting/etc about SRS/Anki, random note-reminders, etc. (more)

Creating multiple ideas for solving a problem, etc. (more)

Chicago dev, building Hearken (more)

The term I'm using for holding Dialogue in an ecosystem that leverages the WikiWeb. From http://billseitz.tiddlyspace.com/#WikiWebDialogue (more)

see WebMention

see NoEstimates, Mob Programming

Ben Hunt on Gell-Mann Amnesia. I’ve written about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect before, but I wanted to highlight it in a standalone Brief. Why? Because I think it’s the primary driver of the social pathology we have today regarding media (MSM) in general and social media in particular. (more)