Jennifer Pahlka (born 1969) is the founder and former Executive Director of Code for America. She served as US Deputy Chief Technology Officer from June 2013 to June 2014 and helped found the United States Digital Service... She married Tim O'Reilly in 2015... Pahlka founded Code for America, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that aims to make government for all people.. She set in motion the creation of the United States Digital Service (USDS) within the Executive Office of the President, and helped start 18F at the General Services Administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Pahlka (more)

Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator for personal, project, or organization sites. Written in Ruby by Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub's co-founder, it is distributed under the open source MIT license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_(software) (more)

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Dan Hon s09e22: Where Do You Start? (more)

Paul Shetler's perspective on UK, US and Australian government (egov) digital transformation. “You can’t Kumbaya your way through this,” smiles Paul Shetler as he relaxes in a cafe in Sydney’s fashionable Potts Point while talking about the challenges of managing a government’s digital transformation (more)

Expectation versus Reality of Five Years in Gov Tech (egov). We asked five leaders in the gov tech market what they expected to happen in the past five years that did — or did not — come to pass (more)

USDS budget cut forces focus on core capabilities. The White House tech team that was formed to save HealthCare.gov in 2014 is returning to its roots as a 911 squad for government tech. That's the message coming out of a planned cut of about $6.75 million to the U.S. Digital Service funding level for fiscal year 2020 -- part of an overall $13.5 million reduction to the Information Technology Oversight and Reform budget sought by the administration. (more)

We've discovered a new structure for building anything-- crossed lists in many dimensions, which we're calling ZigZag. (more)

You could get a huge mass of people to participate in a reactionary endeavour if you dressed it up in nice, twee, cupcakey imagery, and persuaded everyone that the brutality of your ideology was in fact a form of niceness. If a fascist reich was to be established anywhere today, I believe it would necessarily have to exchange iron eagles for fluffy kittens, swap jackboots for Converse, and the epic drama of Wagnerian horns for mumbled ditties on ukuleles. Fascism is, properly understood, a certain sort of response to a crisis. It is the reactionary response, as opposed to the radical one. (more)

an RDF Data Store (more)

the fundamental unit of a Wiki? If you get more granular, you end up at the Node Web (Roam blocks).

Product Leader: Stripe.com, Twitter, Google (Adwords), Yahoo. https://twitter.com/shreyas

Project involving Neal Stephenson and others to accelerate Innovation by returning optimistic future visions to SciFi. (more)

was Andy Rubin Mobile company, became name for GPhone framework (more)

The law of comparative advantage describes how, under free trade, an agent will produce more of and consume less of a good for which they have a comparative advantage.[1] In an economic model, agents have a comparative advantage over others in producing a particular good if they can produce that good at a lower relative opportunity cost or autarky price, i.e. at a lower relative marginal cost prior to trade.[2] Comparative advantage describes the economic reality of the work gains from trade for individuals, firms, or nations, which arise from differences in their factor endowments or technological progress.[3] (One should not compare the monetary costs of production or even the resource costs (labor needed per unit of output) of production. Instead, one must compare the opportunity costs of producing goods across countries[4]). David Ricardo developed the classical theory of comparative advantage in 1817 to explain why countries engage in international trade even when one country's workers are more efficient at producing every single good than workers in other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage (more)

a phrase which gets exactly 1 return from Google https://www.howtodothings.com/computers-internet/how-to-play-googlewhacking

Scott Alexander: SSC Survey Results: ADHD (ADD) And Rejection Sensitivity. Dr. William Dodson pushes a different conception, where one of the key features of ADHD is “rejection-sensitive dysphoria”, ie people with the condition are much less able to tolerate social rejection, and more likely to find it unbearable and organize their lives around avoiding it. He doesn’t deny the attention and focus symptoms; he just thinks that rejection sensitivity needs to be considered a key part of the disorder. (more)

Scott Alexander: Stop Confounding Yourself! Stop Confounding Yourself! Bullies are like sharks: horrible pinnacles of evolution. Animals have been learning to navigate social dominance hierarchies through violence since pecking orders in chickens, on through wolf packs and chimpanzees, and up into humans – and we are very good at it. The bully is the purest manifestation of the primal instinct, which is why he crops up untaught and unbidden in near-identical form in schoolyards from Los Angeles to London to Lanzhou. And like sharks, a good bully should be able to smell blood in the water and know when an opportunity to attack presents itself. (status) (more)

Scott Alexander: Book Review: Singer on Marx. I’m not embarassed for choosing Peter Singer’s Marx: A Very Short Introductionas a jumping-off point for learning more leftist philosophy (karl marx) (more)

Scott Alexander: Staying Classy. Siderea writes an essay on class in America. You should read it. In case you don’t, here’s the summary: (more)