founder Dais https://dais.com/ Dais is a true insurance platform for high-powered companies to connect with distribution and customers, across all lines. - http://www.jasonkolb.com/ (more)

Jason Kolb envisions a Personal Server which is basically an XMPP-based Proxy Server acting as an interface between a person and all the WebApp-s he uses. When you look at the network this level, you can see that the private server has another server sitting behind it which I like to call the storage server. It’s responsible for storing user data and running the guts of what the private server is actually capable of. In fact, the private server does nothing more than serve Web content and proxy requests to and from the storage server. All application logic and data storage is done on the storage server. (more)

Octopuses, lobsters, and crabs are sentient beings, says new U.K. study. The British government has announced that it will add both cephalopods (the class containing octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish) and decapods (the order with lobsters, crabs, shrimp, prawns, and crayfish) to its new animal-welfare bill, citing “strong evidence” that this group of marine invertebrates has feelings. (more)

Holden Karnovsky: Bet with Zvi Mowshowitz about Omicron variant. Zvi Mowshowitz and I have agreed to the following bet... The concept this is trying to capture is that Zvi thinks there’s a 70% chance of the following: “Omicron will blow through the US by 3/1/2022, leading to herd immunity and something like the ‘end’ of the COVID-19 pandemic.” I think there’s only a 50% chance of this (and I would’ve had a lower probability before learning that Zvi thinks it). We bet at 60%. (more)

I was using Bridgy for WebMentions for my WikiLog. But for FluxGarden users, getting set up with IndieWeb is just an extra pain. So I'm going to move toward linking to Twitter searches. I'll call this TwitterMention.

Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία [eu̯dai̯moníaː]; sometimes anglicized as eudaemonia or eudemonia, /juːdɪˈmoʊniə/) is a Greek word literally translating to the state or condition of 'good spirit', and which is commonly translated as 'happiness' or 'welfare'. In the works of Aristotle, eudaimonia was the term for the highest human good in older Greek tradition. It is the aim of practical philosophy, including ethics and political philosophy, to consider as well as experience what it really is, and how it can be achieved. It is thus a central concept in Aristotelian ethics and subsequent Hellenistic philosophy, along with the terms aretē (most often translated as 'virtue' or 'excellence') and phronesis" ('practical or ethical wisdom').[1] Discussion of the links between ēthikē aretē (virtue of character) and eudaimonia (happiness) is one of the central concerns of ancient ethics, and a subject of much disagreement. As a result, there are many varieties of eudaimonism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia See (2008-11-07) Boniwell What Is Eudaimonia? The Concept Of Eudaimonic WellBeing And Happiness,

Ilona Boniwell: What is Eudaimonia? The Concept of Eudaimonic Well-Being and Happiness. (more)

"the Flow State guy" (more)

Big History is an emerging academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present. It examines long time frames using a multidisciplinary approach based on combining numerous disciplines from science and the humanities,[1][2][3][4][5] and explores human existence in the context of this bigger picture.[6] It integrates studies of the cosmos, Earth, life and humanity using empirical evidence to explore cause-and-effect relations... the 20-year-old discipline[13] appears to be poised for further growth, including an effort to make the discipline available worldwide via a project from philanthropist Bill Gates and David Christian called the Big HistoryProject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_History (more)

by Jared Diamond (more)

frenchie deconstructionism (more)

father of Cybernetics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener; http://bactra.org/notebooks/wiener.html (more)

Big Idea Futures theorist. http://hanson.gmu.edu/ (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Omicron Variant Post #7. I am grateful to all my news sources and those who help gather the information together, and everyone working tirelessly in the lab, but the whole thing is still a slapstick hodgepodge, and we know so much less than we could know so much slower than we could know it. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Omicron Variant Post #6. ....UK also offers this helpful report (direct link) showing Omicron with a huge household transmission advantage (more)

The Omicron variant is a variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) from South Africa on 24 November 2021.[1] On 26 November 2021, the WHO designated it as a variant of concern and named it "Omicron", the fifteenth letter in the Greek alphabet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant (more)

Kaj van de Loo: 5 reasons to combine the CTO and CPO roles. When LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner announced in early February that he would step down on June 1, it was a noteworthy change at the professional networking platform that he had led for more than a decade. What also caught my eye, however, was the choice of his successor: LinkedIn product head Ryan Rolansky. They say it takes three or four to make a trend, so I’m calling one now on product leaders getting promoted to CEO. Other examples at high-profile companies in recent years include Adam Mosseri at Instagram, Sundar Pichai at Google, and Thomas Kurian at Google Cloud. (more)

a lite version of the Worse Is Better claim? (more)

musical instruments to go with your bass (more)

see Syncopated Music