From "Big Ball of Mud" by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder: "A BIG BALL OF MUD is haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, Duct Tape and bailing wire, Spaghetti Code jungle. We've all seen them. These systems show unmistakable signs of unregulated growth, and repeated, expedient repair. Information is shared promiscuously among distant elements of the system, often to the point where nearly all the important information becomes global or duplicated. The overall structure of the system may never have been well defined. If it was, it may have eroded beyond recognition. Programmers with a shred of architectural sensibility shun these quagmires. Only those who are unconcerned about architecture, and, perhaps, are comfortable with the inertia of the day-to-day chore of patching the holes in these failing dikes, are content to work on such systems." (more)

Mike (Miguel) Beedle was an American theoretical physicist turned software engineer who was a co-author of the Agile Manifesto.[1] He was the co-author of the first book and earliest papers about Scrum.[2] Later he coined the term "Enterprise Scrum",[3] developed his ideas into a canvases-based approach, and promoted Enterprise Scrum as a framework for scaling the practices and benefits of Scrum across entire organizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Beedle

Ken Schwaber (born 1945 in Wheaton, Illinois) is a software developer, product manager and industry consultant. He worked with Jeff Sutherland to formulate the initial versions of the Scrum framework and to present Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA'95. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Schwaber

aka Uncle Bob, Uncle Bob Martin - Martin has been a software professional since 1970 and an international software consultant since 1990. In 2001, he initiated the meeting of the group that created Agile Software Development from Extreme Programming techniques.[1] He is also a leading member of the Software Craftsmanship movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cecil_Martin (more)

Hunter College High School (more)

Andreas Carlsson and Jaan Orvet wrote Noded, a Self Published book about working in the Network Economy as part of a Noded Team: A group of individuals, often but not necessarily geographically distant, that come together to form temporary or recurring Project teams. Unlike "DistributedTeams" Node teams work for a wide range of clients and any member of a Node team can take the lead to bring in work, manage work and choose their team members. If I weren't on a book-diet, I'd probably buy it, though the "preview" is rather content-free other than Table Of Contents and tiny intro. They list some of the Collaboration Ware they use. (see also Virtual Company) (more)

Risk Management researcher, Black Swan author (more)

The Collapse of the US economy starting with the Stock Market Crash Of 1929. A big Depression. (more)

A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculation and economic bubbles (Asset Bubble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash

Was the Stock Market Crash Of 1929 the trigger for the Great Depression, or a symptom?

I think we're going through a Phase Change from Old Economy to New Economy. The Credit Crisis 2008 was just a trigger point for a bigger change, so a true "recovery" may take decades. (more)

How To Raise Reality Hackers: Introduction (more)

backlash against BigTech, with side-effects

I’m most well known as the primary author of Hypothesis, a property-based testing system for Python. Of the back of that work, I’m currently doing a PhD in test-case reduction. https://www.drmaciver.com/

David R. MacIver: Initial Notes Towards a Manifesto. What I'm about is this: Dear humanity, we are fucking this up, and it's annoying me and I'm embarrassed to be a part of it. (more)

David R. MacIver: Cleaning up the fnords in your environment. Have you ever used a new program or system and found it to be obnoxiously buggy, but then after a while you didn’t notice the bugs anymore? If so, then congratulations: you have been trained by the computer to avoid some of its problems (more)

Journaling process created by Julia Cameron. https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/ Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. (more)

A HealthCare issue? (more)

Anton Troynikov: The Stakes. Only the fragile promise of continued technological progress represents an escape from the horrific, deadly, Malthusian prison that was the past. These are The Stakes. (more)

Anton Troynikov: The Purpose of Technology is Human Flourishing. The purpose of technological progress is embedded deeply in the human spirit and is born of the same kiln as the purpose of art: Creation of something that has never before existed; learn things about the world nobody has ever known before. (more)