Division of labor based on grouping people by function/specialty

Actually Richard Forthrast From REAMDE (more)

OutSourcing tasks to a cloud of people? (more)

John Taylor Gatto, a rebel against institutionalized education (Factory Schooling). (more)

see Alexander Patterns: Network Of Learning, University As A Marketplace, Master And Apprentices (more)

How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito? Six nerdy roommates used public health data to create an online Covid-19-risk points system for every activity—and protect their pandemic pod. (more)

do you get your choice of food and breeding partner? (more)

The Delta Variant Has Warped Our Risk Perception. Your chance of being crushed in bed tonight by a falling satellite is minuscule. It is also nonzero. Ronald Howard, a Stanford engineering professor and founder of a discipline called decision analysis, made a point of noting the latter, the risk of splat. Perhaps best known for studying questions of dangerous thrills (more)

A Major New Index Fund Should Unnerve Climate-Skeptical CEOs. Last month, a tiny hedge fund called Engine No. 1 staged a coup of sorts at ExxonMobil—a shareholders’ revolt that unseated three members of the oil company’s board of directors and replaced them with more climate-concerned candidates. The putsch was the first centered on climate change at an American oil company. (more)

Fear of COVID-19 in Kids Is Getting Ahead of the Data. As a practicing primary-care doctor... I understand why many parents were alarmed when, on July 27, the CDC’s director, Rochelle Walensky, said that vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant could transmit the virus “with the same capacity as an unvaccinated” person. (more)

The Rise of the Content Capitalist. Today I would like to share with you a different path to quality venture capital careers. This is a path that is less reliant on getting past gatekeepers. (more)

We need to start thinking more critically about long Covid. What media stories about long Covid and the people who call themselves long-haulers describe is frightening. Ed Yong, a writer for The Atlantic, has been particularly influential in sculpting this narrative. In “Long-Haulers Are Redefining Covid-19,” he describes a mysterious syndrome that strikes even those with mild Covid-19 (more)

Ben Thompson: Metaverses. Satya Nadella, for the record, was first: on May 25, 2021, during the keynote for Microsoft’s Build developer conference, he characterized a collection of Azure offerings as a metaverse. (more)

Jorge A Caballero: America shouldn’t be sending unvaccinated kids back to school. A study by Imperial College London found that Covid-19 test positivity among UK children five to 12 years was two- to six-fold higher than for persons 45 and older. As of Wednesday, one in 10 Covid-19 test results for US children five to 11 years are positive, and the week-over-week rise in test positivity is climbing fastest for this age group. Covid-19 test positivity among US children 12-17 (12.3%) is higher than for any other age group. (more)

Jason Shen: 065: Massive, Aspirational, and Public Goals. I’ve been thinking about the value of publicly declaring massive aspirational goals. (BHAG) (more)

Emily Oster: A Credo for the Classroom. Last week, Lucy McBride and I got an email from camp director Steve Baskin of Camp Champions in Texas. He and I met last summer when we were all studying how to operate schools safely (more)

Objectives and Key Results - is a framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 8/12: The Worst Is Over. Good news, everyone! Andrew Cuomo has resigned, and Andrew Cuomo is the worst. The title this week does not as reliably or fully refer to the Delta variant or the Covid-19 pandemic. Things are still steadily getting worse. (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)

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