Son been complaining about Group Messaging in his Android Galaxy S. 2013-04-01-SonDroppedNexusOneReplacedWithGalaxyS (more)

NFT case - created by Robin Sloan? Or by Zora? (2021-03-08) Sloan A Coat Check Ticket a Magic Spell (more)

Robin Sloan: A coat check ticket, a magic spell. A while back, a digital acquain­tance of mine went to work for Zora, a company engineering a crypto­graphic protocol — really, a market — for artists. More recently, Zora published a bundle of devel­oper documentation and a client library for this protocol. It cannot happen that an art-adjacent SDK is published and I do not poke at it, so poke I did. (more)

Erik Torenberg: Reality is up for Grabs. Whatever your perspective is on the broader culture war, one thing is clear: we've lost our common sense of reality. (more)

Binance Throws Its Weight Behind Cardano's Alonzo Hard Fork. The world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, has announced that it will support Cardano’s upcoming network upgrade. (more)

Cardano's New Lethal Weapon, Kick.io All Set to Dethrone Ethereum. Till now, the main reason behind Ethereum's domination in the space has been due to the convenience provided to the users. However, as per the research by analysts, despite getting launched a few years after Ethereum, Cardano has managed to attract a plethora of users and is expected to soon replace Ethereum in terms of total network transactions. (more)

Cardano Alonzo Hard Fork: What You Need to Know. After the Alonzo update, anyone will be able to create and deploy their own smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain, paving the way for native decentralized applications (dapps). (more)

Virtual learning course where a group of students start simultaneously, and have multiple real-time interactions.

Table of Contents, Theory of Constraints

Heard talk by Rich Sheridan of Menlo Innovations on creating a joyful workplace (more)

The Programmers Stone course by Alan G Carter and Colston Sanger aims to recapture, explore and celebrate the Art of Computer Programming. (Donald Knuth, TAOCP) (Hacker) Frustrating at times, but if you zoom through the parts that annoy you, you'll find plenty that resonates. (more)

Eli Goldratt book https://www.toc-goldratt.com/product/Its-Not-Luck (more)

Adam Grant: There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing. It wasn’t burnout — we still had energy. It wasn’t depression — we didn’t feel hopeless. We just felt somewhat joyless and aimless. It turns out there’s a name for that: languishing. (more)

Stoicism was a school of Hellenistic Philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century B.C. The stoics considered destructive emotions to be the result of errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "MorAl and intellectual perfection," would not have such emotions. Stoics were concerned with the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human Freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous (Virtue) to maintain a Will (called prohairesis) (Self Control) that is in accord with nature. Because of this, the Stoics presented their philosophy as a Way Of Life, and they thought that the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how he behaved. (more)

MediaLab, Lego MindStorms, StarLogo http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/ (more)

see Flow State

Learned optimism is the idea in positive psychology that a talent for joy, like any other, can be cultivated. In contrast with learned helplessness, optimism is learned by consciously challenging any negative self talk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_optimism Book by Martin Seligman ISBN:1400078393 (more)

A step beyond authentic happiness?

I still do some coding on the side. Almost all Python. Server bits hosted at linode and Digital Ocean. Most recently FluxGarden. (more)

Ish Baid: Virtually End of Year Update. This has been an absolutely extraordinary year for us here at Virtually. (more)