Sascha Fast: Backlinking (Backlinks) Is Not Very Useful -- Often Even Harmful. To me, there is a lot of emphasis on connecting notes and very little on connecting knowledge. My response to the below: (more)

Jared Pereira: 45: Documents and Programs. In this application, though, you’re not only interacting with text documents, there are also programs. These are special documents that are are dynamic. They change based on some internal state. You can modify that state by sending the document messages. (more)

Merve Emre: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Gimmicks. What is in a word as minor as “gimmick”? For Sianne Ngai, a professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author of “Theory of the Gimmick” (Harvard), the answer is: everything, or at least everything to do with the art consumed and produced under capitalism. (more)

author of Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution ISBN:1578518520 (more)

Zettelkasten junkie - https://zettelkasten.de/

Kev Quirk: Removing Support For The IndieWeb. I recently redesigned this website. When I did, I removed all of the IndieWeb functionality from it. (more)

Future liability owed on a Product/Project because of short-term-focused Decision Making. Or changing reality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt (more)

series of books by Walter Jon Williams - (more)

Body of thought on how-to-think. But heavily focused on business activities. By Eli Goldratt. (more)

Clarke Ching: Lesson One - Winston Churchill. Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty (in 1911) and instructed to prepare the navy to win a war against Germany. (more)

Roger Martin CM (born 4 August 1956) is the former Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto from 1998 to 2013 and an author of several business books.[1] Martin has expanded several important business concepts in use today, including integrative thinking. He has been recognized by several business publications as one of the field's most important thinkers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Martin_(professor) (more)

Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. On Feb. 25, 1980 the celebrated French literary critic Roland Barthes was struck by a laundry van while crossing the street in Paris, later dying of his injuries... What if Barthes — an authority on semiology, the study of signs and symbols — had discovered a linguistic secret of immense power, one for which people would kill? The pioneering structuralist Roman Jakobson had famously promulgated six functions to language, but he hinted at the possible existence of a seventh, one in which words acquired the persuasive force of incantations or magic spells (magick). (more)

Works Progress Administration, renamed during 1939 as the Work Projects Administration (more)

David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white supremacist, far-right politician, convicted felon, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He has advocated neo-Nazi and antisemitic conspiracy theories such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia, the press, and the financial system.[3][4] The Anti-Defamation League has described Duke as "perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite" who promotes white supremacist opinions.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke

Hillary Clinton: Half of Donald Trump Supporters Fall Into ‘Basket of Deplorables’ (more)

Under-Employment, or disguised UnEmployment, refers to a job that is insufficient in some important way for a worker, relative to a standard,[2] which results in the under-utilization of the worker. Examples include holding a part-time job despite desiring full-time work, and overqualification, where the employee has education, experience, or skills beyond the requirements of the job. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underemployment See U6 reference at UnEmployment.

Stuart Kauffman concept. I can begin to imagine making models of how the universe gets more complex, but at the same time I'm hamstrung... How do we get started on something where we could talk about the future of a biosphere? There is a chance that there are general laws. I've thought about four of them. One of them says that autonomous agents have to live the most complex game (complex system) that they can. The second has to do with the construction of EcoSystems. The third has to do with Per Bak's Self Organized criticality in ecosystems. And the fourth concerns the idea of the Adjacent Possible. It just may be the case that biospheres on average keep expanding into the adjacent possible. By doing so they increase the Diversity of what can happen next. It may be that biospheres, as a secular trend, maximize the rate of exploration of the adjacent possible. If they did it too fast, they would destroy their own internal organization, so there may be internal gating mechanisms. This is why I call this an average secular trend, since they explore the Adjacent Possible as fast as they can get away with it. There's a lot of neat science to be done to unpack that, and I'm thinking about it. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman03/kauffman_index.html (more)

aka Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator : Using concentrated Solar Power to reverse combustion, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power. The carbon monoxide could then be used to make hydrogen or serve as a building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel, such as methanol or even gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/sunshine.html (more)

Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by animals of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction. As a term, swarming is applied particularly to insects, but can also be applied to any other animal that exhibits swarm behaviour. The term Flocking is usually used to refer specifically to swarm behaviour in birds, Herd Ing to refer to swarm behaviour in quadrupeds, shoaling or Schooling to refer to swarm behaviour in fish. Phytoplankton also gather in huge swarms called blooms, although these organisms are algae and are not self-propelled the way animals are. By extension, the term swarm is applied also to inanimate entities which exhibit parallel behaviours, as in a robot swarm, an earthquake swarm, or a swarm of stars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour (more)

a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic plants, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length. The US Algal Collection is represented by almost 300,000 accessioned and inventoried herbarium specimens.[3] The largest and most complex marine forms are called Sea Weed-s. They are photosynthetic, like other plants, and "simple" because they lack the many distinct organs found in land plants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae (more)