Output (Communication) made meaningless/misleading through sloppy word-choice (Critical Thinking). See also BullShit. (more)

Yes, children, hypertext existed even before the World Wide Web. (more)

Technocracy is a system of government in which a decision-maker or makers are elected by the population or appointed on the basis of their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge. This system explicitly contrasts with representative democracy, the notion that elected representatives should be the primary decision-makers in government,[1] though it does not necessarily imply eliminating elected representatives. Decision-makers are selected on the basis of specialized knowledge and performance, rather than political affiliations or parliamentary skills.[2] The term technocracy was originally used to signify the application of the scientific method to solving social problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

Malcolm Ocean: How are goals magic? There are lots of other ways to think about goals. Here’s one that I’ve been exploring lately. (goal setting) (more)

Can an App Help Change Your Personality? These are people’s patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and they’re commonly categorized as the “big five”: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. (more)

Who is Q? Maker of HBO docuseries 'Q: Into the Storm' believes he has the answer. The new HBO docuseries, “Q: Into the Storm,” attempts to answer one of the most urgent questions of our time: Who controls QAnon. (more)

Chief Product Officer at BaseCamp - until May'2021

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White nationalism is a type of nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses the belief that white people are a race[1] and seeks to develop and maintain a white racial and national identity.[2][3][4] Many of its proponents identify with and are attached to the concept of a white nation, or a "white ethnostate".[5] Analysts describe white nationalism as overlapping with white supremacism and white separatism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism

Apple Computer Compound Document technology, now abandoned. standard created by Apple in the 1990s for compound documents, intended as an alternative to Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)... Apple was rapidly losing money at the time and many in the industry press expected the company to fail. OpenDoc was soon discontinued, with Steve Jobs (who had been at NeXT during this development) noting that they "put a bullet through [OpenDoc's] head", and most of the Apple Advanced Technology Group was laid off in a big reduction in force in March 1997. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc (more)

co-founder Postlight

Paul Ford/Rich Ziade digital agency (more)

Austin Kleon (born 1983[1]) is a New York Times bestselling author[2] of five books: Steal Like an Artist; Show Your Work!; Keep Going; Steal Like An Artist Journal; and Newspaper Blackout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Kleon https://austinkleon.com/

DHH: We need counter capital. Why isn’t there a market for selling a minority stake of your profitable tech company to people who’d be happy to be paid back in distributions and dividends, rather than capital gains? It seems like a glaring gap in the market. (more)

Meta Computers and Passive Billing: Paul Ford and Rich Ziade on Various Things. So, remember our last episode where we said we were gonna make an intranet for Postlight? (more)

Dozens of people on FBI terrorist watch list came to D.C. the day of Capitol riot (2021 Storming of the US Capitol). Dozens of people on a terrorist watch list were in Washington for pro-Trump events Jan. 6, a day that ended in a chaotic crime rampage when a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol. (more)

The politicians who tried to overturn an election — and the local news team that won’t let anyone forget it. The journalists at WITF, an all-news public radio station in Harrisburg, Pa., made a perfectly reasonable decision a few months ago. They decided they wouldn’t shrug off the damaging lies of election denialism. (cf 2021 Storming of the US Capitol) (more)

Jason Fried: What I think, not what I thought. A core tenet of how we work at Basecamp is that we make it up as we go, 6-weeks at a time. No big plans beyond that. (ShapeUp) (more)

Casey Newton: What really happened at Basecamp. *The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers. (more)

Ryan Singer: Products Are Functions. Products are easier to reason about when you think of them as functions. They transform an input situation into an output situation. (more)