Software Development guru (more)

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination - going to bed/sleep later than makes sense because you're dis-satisfied with your waking life.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.[1] People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when they interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing attitudes. The effect is strongest for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply entrenched beliefs. Confirmation bias cannot be eliminated entirely, but it can be managed, for example, by education and training in critical thinking skills. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias (more)

Congruence bias is the tendency of people to over-rely on testing their initial hypothesis (the most congruent one) while neglecting to test alternative hypotheses. That is, people rarely try experiments that could disprove their initial belief, but rather try to repeat their initial results. It is a special case of the confirmation bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congruence_bias (more)

Annotation System-s typically allow any reader/user to attach a comment (structured or not) to any web object-node they find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 5/13: Moving On. Can life return fully to normal? Yes. (more)

Hmm, how to define? Plenty of crazy people are happy... (cf well-being) (more)

Substance or action that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, or consciousness. (more)

2001 Manifesto behind Agile Software Development: ...we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools... http://agilemanifesto.org/ (more)

Edwyn Charles Huang (born March 1, 1982)[1] is an American film director, author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and attorney.[2][3] He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan.[4] Huang previously hosted Huang's World for Viceland. His autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, was adapted into the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, of which he narrated the first season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Huang (more)

No More Time on the Couch: The Rise of Digital Mental Health Therapeutics. She was referred to a mental health digital therapeutics company called Learn to Live (more)

battle for space/sovereignty between Israeli and Palestinian people (more)

see esp MeatballWiki:WebOfTrust - In Collaborative Hypermedia, users are ideally given a large degree of freedom to add, edit, and remove content. Overly strict security mechanisms not only discourage free cooperation, but can fail to protect communities from malicious users. Systems like the Wiki Wiki Web "replace technical security with social and political limits" (Clifford Adams). The Web Of Trust concept attempts to create technical security that is based on the social strength of the community. An important part of the WebOfTrust (and what makes it different from a TrustMetric but the distinction is not always clear) is that it measures trust for each user based on his or her choices. (more)

Coronavirus vaccines are coming for kids — but studies have to be finished first. In the early days of the pandemic, experts debated why so few children were becoming infected and why those who did so often had few or no symptoms. They rarely suffered serious illness. It is now clear that when tests were limited, children were simply not being counted. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children make up about 13 percent of U.S. infections. (more)

oops see (2021-04-25) Move To DigitalOcean

David Preston is trying to hack the High School system. Every generation thinks school can’t get any worse but somehow we manage... Forget the achievement gap and the union versus reform sideshow—even the best prep school curricula are designed for a world that no longer exists (if it ever did)... I taught at the country’s fourth-largest high school in LA. It had a year-round calendar with three tracks to accommodate five thousand students, most of whom didn’t carry books because they didn’t want to get jumped on the way home. (more)

Working on disrupting Educating Kids system. https://davidpreston.net/ (more)

Knowledge Is Power Program - Charter School model (more)

Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott.[2] The film criticizes the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be accepted into competitive charter schools such as KIPP LA Schools, Harlem Success Academy and Summit Preparatory Charter High School.[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_%22Superman

Fred Wilson just saw Waiting For Superman, a movie making the case for Education Reform (Educating Kids). The Harlem Childrens Zone is at the center of the story. I Commented. (more)