Flow diagram is a collective term for a diagram representing a flow or set of dynamic relationships in a system. The term flow diagram is also used as a synonym for flowchart,[1] and sometimes as a counterpart of the flowchart.[2] Flow diagrams are used to structure and order a complex system, or to reveal the underlying structure of the elements and their interaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_diagram (more)

Force-directed graph drawing algorithms are a class of algorithms for graph drawing in an aesthetically-pleasing way. Their purpose is to position the nodes of a graph in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space so that all the edges are of more or less equal length and there are as few crossing edges as possible, by assigning forces among the set of edges and the set of nodes, based on their relative positions, and then using these forces either to simulate the motion of the edges and nodes or to minimize their energy.[2] While graph drawing can be a difficult problem, force-directed algorithms, being physical simulations, usually require no special knowledge about graph theory such as planarity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force-directed_graph_drawing (more)

One of the Thinking Tools: Mapping, Graph Drawing, Argumentation Visualization... (more)

Sankey diagrams are a type of flow diagram (Visualization) in which the width of the arrows is proportional to the flow rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram (more)

Taco is an Issue Tracker hub/integrator: See all your tasks in one place, from the services you already use (like GoogleTasks, GitHub, BaseCamp, ZenDesk, and RSS). Work on what matters. They raised $7k on KickStarter to support building additional connectors (Trello, Asana) (more)

Meaning of Life?

Philosophical consultancy, also sometimes called philosophical practice or philosophical counseling or clinical philosophy, is a contemporary movement in practical philosophy. Developing since the 1980s as a profession but since the 1950s as a practice, practitioners of philosophical counseling ordinarily have a doctorate or minimally a master's degree in philosophy and offer their philosophical counseling or consultation services to clients who look for a philosophical understanding of their lives, social problems, or even mental problems. In the last case philosophical counseling might be in lieu of, or in conjunction with, psychotherapy. The movement has often been said to be rooted in the Socratic tradition, which viewed philosophy as a search for the Good and the good life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_counseling (more)

kinda like Multi Tasking? (more)

filtering, highlighting things for other people to pay attention to (more)

To Criticize By Creating may not be necessary, if you can simply Evangelize good things that are already out there. See Fractally Generative Pattern Language, curation. (more)

"Curating" (curation) is the new "merchandising" (or "editing", or maybe "producing"). (Retail, Product Management)

part of Mass Transit system (more)

The real story behind the demise of America's once-mighty streetcars (trolley systems). There's this widespread conspiracy theory that the streetcars were bought up by a company National City Lines, which was effectively controlled by GM, so that they could be torn up and converted into bus lines," says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. But that's not actually the full story, he says. "By the time National City Lines was buying up these streetcar companies, they were already in bankruptcy. (more)

We need to expand the meaning of the word Currency beyond its industrial age equivalence with Money or Medium Of Exchange. (more)

The smallest of the network in Ross Mayfield's Ecosystem Of Networks model. (more)

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the cloth, paper or other medium was brushed or rubbed repeatedly to achieve the transfer of ink, and accelerated the process. Typically used for texts, the invention and global spread of the printing press was one of the most influential events in the second millennium.[1][2] In Germany, around 1440, goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. Modelled on the design of existing screw presses, a single Renaissance printing press could produce up to 3,600 pages per workday,[3] compared to forty by hand-printing and a few by hand-copying.[4] Gutenberg's newly devised hand mould made possible the precise and rapid creation of metal movable type in large quantities. His two inventions, the hand mould and the printing press, together drastically reduced the cost of printing books and other documents in Europe, particularly for shorter print runs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

Valve Corporation (formerly known as Valve Software and often known as Valve) is an American Computer Game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States. Founded in 1996 by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, Valve became famous for its critically acclaimed Half Life and Portal series (the first game released in November 1998). It is also well known for its social distribution network Steam and for developing the Source engine, which has been used in every Valve game since its introduction in 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation (more)

A joint stock company is a special kind of Partnership... Shares express ownership interest and decision making power in the company, and shareholders are free to transfer their shares to someone else without needing consent of the other shareholders. While a normal partnership also has ownership interest, the difference is that in a Partnership, interest can only be transferred to someone else if all the partners agree to it... A for-profit corporation (C-Corp) is a Joint Stock company, except that the shareholders have no liability (Limited Liability) towards the corporation's debts... The earliest records of joint-stock companies appear in China during the Tang (c 750 AD) and Song dynasties. The Tang dynasty saw the development of the heben, the earliest form of joint stock company with an active partner and one or two passive investors. (more)

Intellectual Property Monopoly of an "invention" (more)

This page focuses on adoption of the Pattern Language approach to Software Design. (more)