see Model, Mental Model, Sense Making, Theory Building (more)

Jorge Aranda notes A critique from Alistair Cockburn on how the Agile Software Development movement is under attack from Taylorism led me to an essay by Dave West on the philosophical incompatibilities between Lean Development and agile techniques, and this in turn led me to finally give a read to Peter Naur’s 1985 text, “Programming as Theory Building.”.. Naur’s programmer’s theories are essentially Mental Models in the sense I (and many others before me) present them, and both he and I claim that the overarching goal of a software development organization is to build those models (or theories) during the life of the project. I could actually restate my thesis contributions as extensions to Naur’s sketch in two ways: first, I explore what I think is the main challenge that software team members find today: to build consistent mental models (or in the terms of the thesis, to develop a shared understanding (Shared Language)) of the world, among potentially large groups of people, in the face of abundant, shifting, and tacit information, and unclear or exploratory goals. Second, I outline some attributes of team interaction (Team Work) that make such a challenge easier to overcome. (more)

ECMAScript (/ˈɛkməskrɪpt/) (or ES)[1] is a general-purpose programming language, standardised by Ecma International according to the document ECMA-262. It is a JavaScript standard meant to ensure the interoperability of web pages across different web browsers.[2] ECMAScript is commonly used for client-side scripting on the World Wide Web, and it is increasingly being used for writing server applications and services using Node.js. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript

Solidity is an object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts.[1] It is used for implementing smart contracts[2] on various blockchain platforms, most notably, Ethereum.[3] It was developed by Christian Reitwiessner, Alex Beregszaszi, and several former Ethereum core contributors to enable writing smart contracts on blockchain platforms such as Ethereum.[4] The programs compiled by the Solidity are intended to be run on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidity (more)

Gordon Brander: Alphabets of Emergence. My goal for Subconscious app is to create a system capable of provoking emergence. Minecraft, the web, wikis, spreadsheets, and legos are all examples of systems that can provoke emergent behavior (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 9/30: People Respond to Incentives. Executive Summary: About what you’d expect. No key takeaways this week. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 9/23: There Is a War. The FDA, having observed and accepted conclusive evidence that booster shots are highly effective, has rejected allowing people to get those booster shots unless they are over the age of 65, are immunocompromised or high risk, or are willing to lie on a form. The CDC will probably concur. (more)

Aloe Bud: A Gentler, Kinder App. Say hey to Amber Discko. (more)

2021 Will Wright game - (2011-06-06) Wright ManekiNeko HiveMind

Whole lotta disruption in the mental health area these days, between: (more)

habit-change app associated with Dan Ariely.

Jeni Miles: Apps to the Future. (more)

College Campuses Have the Craziest COVID-19 Restrictions of All. Here's why that should terrify the rest of us, too. (more)

Karl Schroeder thinks there's hope for Wicked problems. Scaling Structured Dialogic Design sessions to groups larger than 50 to 70 people at a time has proven difficult--but the fact that it and similar methods exist at all should give us hope... Here's my take on things: our biggest challenges are no longer technological. They are issues of communication, coordination, and cooperation. These are, for the most part, well-studied problems that are not wicked. The methodologies that solve them need to be scaled up from the small-group settings where they currently work well, and injected into the DNA of our society--or, at least, built into our default modes of using the internet. They then can be used to tackle the wicked problems... What we need, in other words, is a Facebook for Collaborative Decision Making: an app built to compensate for the most egregious cognitive biases and behaviours that derail us when we get together to think in groups. Decision-support, Stakeholder analysis, bias filtering, collaborative scratch-pads and, most importantly, mechanisms to extract Commitment-s to action from those that use these tools... no large-scale collaborative system is going to work, however, unless everybody using it shares a common language (Shared Language). (more)

Is there a novel, other book, or other resource out there that paints an Optimistic Near Future Vision (10-20yrs) SmallWorld/Network Economy picture that's not overly-darkened by Peak Oil or other Collapse factors (or Singularity wishful-thinking)? (more)

Grant Morrison, MBE (born 31 January 1960)[1] is a Scottish comic book writer and playwright. They are known for their nonlinear narratives, humanist philosophy and countercultural leanings in their runs on titles including DC Comics's Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Batman, JLA, All-Star Superman, The Invisibles, Flex Mentallo, The Filth and We3, Marvel's New X-Men and 2000 AD's Zenith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Morrison

term associated with Participatory Medicine. (HealthCare) (more)

I first ran across this reference in Godel Escher Bach. (more)

Our proven techniques are developed by leading scientists and experts who've been studying evidence-based interventions in the fields of positive psychology, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral therapy for decades. https://www.happify.com/

David Cain: Where Personal Breakthroughs Really Come From (more)