Management people caught in the middle at a BigCo. With the power only to Say No. See Clueless.

Authoritarian High Modernism: James Scott concept, see Legibility. (more)

Immanuel Kant (UK: /kænt/,[20][21] US: /kɑːnt/,[22][23] German: [ɪˈmaːnu̯eːl ˈkant, -nu̯ɛl -];[24][25] 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.[26][27] Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy.[26][28] In his doctrine of transcendental idealism, Kant argued that space and time are mere "forms of intuition" which structure all experience, and therefore that while "things-in-themselves" exist and contribute to experience, they are nonetheless distinct from the objects of experience. From this it follows that the objects of experience are mere "appearances", and that the nature of things as they are in themselves is consequently unknowable to us.[29][30] In an attempt to counter the skepticism he found in the writings of philosopher David Hume,[31] he wrote the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787),[32] one of his most well-known works. In it, he developed his theory of experience to answer the question of whether synthetic a priori knowledge is possible, which would in turn make it possible to determine the limits of metaphysical inquiry. Kant drew a parallel to the Copernican revolution in his proposal that the objects of the senses must conform to our spatial and temporal forms of intuition, and that we can consequently have a priori cognition of the objects of the senses.[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) was a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1929. Founded in the Weimar Republic (1918–1933), during the European interwar period (1918–1939), the Frankfurt School comprised intellectuals, academics, and political dissidents dissatisfied with the contemporary socio-economic systems (capitalist, fascist, communist) of the 1930s. The Frankfurt theorists proposed that social theory was inadequate for explaining the turbulent political factionalism and reactionary politics occurring in 20th century liberal capitalist societies. Critical of capitalism and of Marxism–Leninism as philosophically inflexible systems of social organization, the School's critical theory research indicated alternative paths to realizing the social development of a society and a nation.[1] (more)

In social science, disenchantment (German: Entzauberung) is the cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion apparent in modern society. The term was borrowed from Friedrich Schiller by Max Weber to describe the character of a modernized, bureaucratic, secularized Western society.[1] In Western society, according to Weber, scientific understanding is more highly valued than belief, and processes are oriented toward rational goals, as opposed to traditional society, in which "the world remains a great enchanted garden".... (more)

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (/ˈveɪbər/;[12] German: [ˈveːbɐ]; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist, who is regarded among the most important theorists on the development of modern Western society.[13] His ideas would profoundly influence social theory and social research.[14] Despite being recognized as one of the fathers of sociology along with Auguste Comte, Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim, Weber saw himself not as a sociologist but as a historian.[15][16] Unlike Émile Durkheim, Weber did not believe in monocausal (root cause) explanations, proposing instead that for any outcome there can be multiple causes.[17] He was a key proponent of methodological anti-positivism, arguing for the study of social action through interpretive (rather than purely empiricist) methods, based on understanding the purpose and meanings that individuals attach to their own actions. Weber's main intellectual concern was in understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularisation, and "disenchantment", which he took to be the result of a new way of thinking about the world,[18] associating such processes with the rise of capitalism and modernity.[19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber

Legibility guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott (more)

Culture-accepted cluster of Game Rules. Term often used by Robert Anton Wilson, incl (more)

NYC live theater for kids, $20/ticket (more)

Frog and Toad are the main characters in a series of easy-reader children's books, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel (who also wrote Mouse Soup). Each book contains five simple, often humorous, sometimes poignant, short stories chronicling the exploits of the anthropomorphic frog and a toad. Some of their adventures include attempting to fly a kite, cleaning Toad's dirty house instead of postponing the chores to the next day, and finding out different reasons for isolation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_and_Toad

some time in the past when "things were better than today" (more)

Teresa Torres: Prioritize Opportunities, Not Solutions. I cringe every time I see product teams use a spreadsheet to rank the ideas in their, backlog based on some made-up math formula usually consisting of things like business value, user value, and technical difficulty. (more)

Scott Adams: How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life ISBN:1591847745 (more)

I set up SSL at (2021-04-25) Move To DigitalOcean. It's time to renew. (more)

Ron Jeffries: Dark Scrum: The Case Against Scrum (Dark Agile) (more)

I've been updating WikiGraph every couple weeks by hand for my own stuff. But paying FluxGarden users need near-real-time BackLinks updating. (more)

Now at DORA/Google. Was ThoughtWorks dev, then Chef Io (more)

An immunity passport or vaccine passport, also known as an immunity certificate,[1] recovery certificate[2] or release certificate[3] is a document, in both paper and digital format, attesting that its bearer is immune to a contagious disease.[4] Similar to quarantine, public certification is an action that governments can take to mitigate an epidemic.[5] An immunity passport is not the same as a vaccination record or vaccination certificate proving someone has received certain vaccines verified by the medical records of the clinic where the vaccines were given.[6] The Carte Jaune ("yellow card") is an official vaccination record issued by the World Health Organization (WHO). It has been argued that the primary difference is that vaccination certificates such as the Carte Jaune incentivise individuals to obtain vaccination against a disease, while immunity passports incentivise individuals to get infected with and recover from a disease.[7] The concept of immunity passports has drawn much attention during the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential way to contain the pandemic and permit faster economic recovery.[8] This could include a "health passport" for people who have either been vaccinated or otherwise developed immunity by surviving COVID-19... Several US states, including South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Florida, Texas and Arizona,[56] have banned the use of COVID-19 immunity passports.[57][58] In April 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised against the use of mandatory COVID-19 vaccine passports for travel, citing ethics and efficacy concerns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunity_passport

A tool/platform/market/ecosystem for people to teach and learn outside an institution (so not counting LMSs). (more)

A Crucible Moment. A Metaverse is a big idea — the Open Metaverse can be even bigger. Perhaps the biggest idea of our modern times. It can fundamentally change not only what we know, but also how we connect as a networked species. (more)