Personal Finance or Corporate Finance (more)

co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund (he had a SmallCo attitude: he didn't want to grow the fund as much as Soros did because of the hassles of running an organization vs a small fund, which is why he eventually left) (more)

Taylor Pearson on How to Discover Your Values and Use Them to Make Better Decisions (more)

Cortex Futura: Don't Fiddle With Your Note-Taking System. People in the PKM space often chuckle a bit at people who discover a new app every couple of weeks and switch their note-taking over. The folk wisdom is that these people are wasting their time, their sense of "productivity" is false, that fiddling with their system is a hobby and not serious work. Like most folk wisdom there's a kernel of truth, grown into a thicket of nonsense. (more)

Rosenstein dropped out of a graduate program in computer science at Stanford in 2004 to join Google as a product manager.[5] At Google, Rosenstein led projects in Google's communication and collaboration division. His projects initially included Google Page Creator, the precursor to Google Sites, and a project internally codenamed “Platypus,” which eventually became Google Drive.[6] He also invented and wrote the original prototype for GMail Chat [7] and many of the features in Google’s rich text editor. (more)

Gordon Brander: Hypertext Montage. Thoughts, also, resist the single linear narrative. They exist as something more like a hyperdimensional cloud of associations. (more)

see Gui Html Editor, rich text

Tom Critchlow: Building a digital garden. The TL;DR is that I built a personal wiki out of files and folders and a few templates in Jekyll hosted on Github Pages. If you want to head straight to the wiki head here: http://tomcritchlow.com/wiki/. (more)

Design And Development - phrase I coined in 2005-12-23-DAndD as contrast to R and D (more)

Interesting programming language. http://www.rebol.com/ (more)

REBOL is going Open Source in v3. Seems maybe a decade late, like SqueakSmallTalk was for SmallTalk. (more)

http://atic.phys.lsu.edu/aticweb/definitions.htm (more)

Geoffrey Litt: Function Follows Form? I’ve been spending my summer (remotely) at Ink and Switch, the research lab where I worked on Cambria last summer. This time around I’m working on rich text editing, together with Slim and a few other collaborators. We have some ideas about how collaborative rich text editors (like Google Docs) could better support the way people actually want to work together, and how CRDTs like Automerge could help enable those use cases. Not much to share widely yet, but get in touch if you have thoughts on that topic! (more)

Dani Grant and Nick Grossman of Union Square Ventures: The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase: Our hypothesis is that this is not actually how things play out. We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. And in fact, the history of new technologies shows that apps (KillerApp) beget infrastructure, not the other way around. (more)

Laying out some of the players in Open Metaverse, DeFi, Web3 (more)

ICOs Are Attracting the Wrong People. Addressing attendees on day two of the Scaling Bitcoin conference at Stanford University, Joi Ito, director of MIT's Media Lab, gave an impassioned talk about complex systems that sought to encourage thinking on the larger, societal impacts bitcoin could have, one that pushed back that these motivations should be purely economic. (more)

see Technical Debt

One of the key DigitalGarden/Wiki features is that using WikiWords (a) makes it easy to generate new nodes, and (b) automatically links to already-existing nodes by matching the name. (more)

see Backlinks

Gold farming is the practice of playing a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) to acquire in-game currency that other players purchase in exchange for real-world money.[1][2] People in several developing nations have held full-time employment as Gold Farmer-s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming aka gold farming (more)