Open source and self-hosted alternatives to Roam Research. (more)

Fibery on Athens Research's pivot to the collective brain (2021-08-07-Season2OfAthensACollectiveVision). I think it is broader than what we are targeting with Fibery. We formulate it as Building a Second Brain for Teams. (more)

Bret Victor: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design. This little rant isn't going to lay out any grand vision or anything. I just hope to suggest some places to look. (more)

Instagram Wants Memers to Like It Again (more)

Text Memes Are Taking Over Instagram. Last month, the singer Courtney Love, who is a keen observer of social media trends, posted a cryptic message on Instagram. “Lots of people don’t understand Gen-Z,” she wrote. “I think they’re funnier than any other generation I’ve ever known.” Accompanying Ms. Love’s Instagram post was a blurry photo of herself and a gallery of unrelated and messy screen-shotted memes filled with nonsensical text overlaid on random photos (more)

Keith Rabois (born March 17, 1969) is an American technology executive and investor. He is currently a general partner at Founders Fund. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and his executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide, and Square. Rabois invested in Yelp and Xoom prior to each company's initial public offering ("IPO") and sits on both companies' boards of directors.[1][2] He is considered a member of the PayPal Mafia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Rabois

Vinay Gupta sets the manifesto of the Collapse-oriented Templars Of Earth. I’ve fallen back on something old, and something that I know works – the guild... (The Craft)... I don’t know what to do, but I do know that the people who are doing the best work in this domain are isolated and alone, and share no banner. There’s mutual respect, but in the absence of a shared platform, little Mutual Aid. (Mutualism) (more)

A benefit society, fraternal benefit society, fraternal benefit order, friendly society, or mutual aid society is a society, an organization or a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties. Such organizations may be formally organized with charters and established customs, or may arise ad hoc to meet unique needs of a particular time and place. Many major financial institutions existing today, particularly some insurance companies, mutual savings banks, and credit unions, trace their origins back to benefit societies, as can many modern fraternal organizations and fraternal orders which are now viewed as being primarily social; the modern legal system essentially requires all such organizations of appreciable size to incorporate as one of these forms or another to continue to exist on an ongoing basis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_society see mutualism

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an effective method of Framing, a technique of Sense Making? (more)

Rust is a multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency.[12][13] Rust is syntactically similar to C++ (C-plus-plus),[14] but can guarantee memory safety by using a borrow checker to validate references.[15] Rust achieves memory safety without garbage collection, and reference counting is optional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language) (more)

Peter Kaminski on the birth and source-of-momentum for BigWorld. We Won, with military and industrial might. Big business is good defense. Good defense is good business. And the media tell the citizenry that, and the rich get richer, and everybody’s happy. Capitalism works, especially media-savvy crony capitalism, especially when it’s got its war on. I'm not sure how much I agree yet, but this is definitely a Model worth chewing on... (more)

investigative satirist, died Jul'2019 (more)

Dave Winer says A Full Peer is a computer that can be both a client and a server and is operating 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It can call other computers and can be called by other computers. A non-full-peer can't be a server - other computers can't call it. Usually it's a FireWall or a NAT that limits a computer in this way. Sometimes it's the ISP imposing the limit, or a corporate network. It's all the same - if you can receive incoming requests and process them your computer is a peer. (more)

by Brenda Laurel, founder of Purple Moon (more)

mentor of Tim O'Reilly (more)

Tim O'Reilly lists his choice of Greatest Books. Lao Tzu (taoism), Samuel Johnson (Rasselas), Colin Wilson, John Wild, Alfred Korzybski, Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright, Dune, Thomas Kuhn, Innovator's Dilemma, Al Ries.... (more)

Became diagrams.net (more)

Diagrams.net (previously draw.io[1]) is free open-source cross platform online and desktop diagram software. It is used to draw flowchart, network diagram, block diagram, electrical circuit diagram to create UML, as an E/R diagram tool, for design, it supports saving files to cloud services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagrams.net (more)

One Year of Excalidraw. Excalidraw started as a way to procrastinate on January 1st, 2020, and ended up being a fully fledged whiteboard product only one year later! In this post, we’ll go over the most important features that made Excalidraw great at being a virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn-like diagrams. (more)