Gordon Brander concept-note-taking-app, called just "subconscious" (used to be "Mem"). Track his thinking via https://subconscious.substack.com/ and https://github.com/gordonbrander/subtext (more)

Jeff Gothelf: NPS is a waste of time. Use these metrics instead. Instead of asking your customers some variation of, “Are you satisfied enough right now to do something in the future we find valuable?” ask them nothing, observe their behaviour and pose the following question to your team: “What do satisfied customers do in our product?” The answers your team comes up with will be customer behaviours — outcomes. These are the metrics you should be measuring instead.

Voices: a Text Analytics Platform for Understanding Member Feedback. Voices aggregates unstructured text across both internal (e.g. LinkedIn posts, customer support cases, NPS survey results) and external (e.g. social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, news, forums, and blogs) data sources (more)

Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (and What UX Professionals Can Do About It). Even though NPS has been solidly debunked in many smart research papers, it’s still solidly embedded into many businesses. We hear about companies rolling out new NPS measurement programs every day. (more)

(2017-07-12) Cory Doctorow's Fully Automated Luxury Communist - or even Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. (more)

Steven Johnson: The Serendipity Engine. When I first began sketching out the structure for this series, one of the core questions I came up with was: “How do you surprise yourself?” It’s one thing to develop tools and practices that help you keep track of your ideas, or cultivate them over time. But what about techniques to help spark a new idea, something that would not normally have occurred to you? How do you set up a work environment that encourages the kind of serendipitous discovery I wrote about in the previous installment of this series? ((2021-12-10) JohnsonSevenTypesOfSerendipity) (more)

A decentralized application (DApp,[1] dApp,[2] Dapp, or dapp) is a computer application that runs on a decentralized computing system. DApps have been popularized by distributed ledger technologies (DLT) such as the Ethereum blockchain,[3] through the use of smart contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_application

Zvi Mowshowitz Covid-19 1/6/22: The Blip. No question it’s annoying, and for those in health care it’s overwhelming and terrible. I don’t want to minimize it. And if you care about avoiding this it’s going to be a lonely few months. But compared to March 2020, this is nothing. We got this. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz Omicron variant Post #13: Outlook. In addition to some amount of the usual business, the focus of this post will be an explicit attempt to look at what’s likely to happen from here, and give my baseline scenario. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: CDC Changes Isolation Guidelines. Previously, if you tested positive for Covid-19, you needed to isolate for ten days. Now you only need to isolate for five. (more)

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Web Services, Distributed Objects, Grid Computing, etc. (more)

Matthew Rosenfeld,[2] known as Moxie Marlinspike,[3] is an American entrepreneur, cryptographer, and computer security researcher.[1][3] Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, co-founder of the Signal Foundation, and serves as the CEO of Signal Messenger LLC. He is also a co-author of the Signal Protocol encryption used by Signal app, WhatsApp,[4] Facebook Messenger,[5] and Skype.[6] Marlinspike is a former head of the security team at Twitter[7] and the author of a proposed SSL authentication system replacement called Convergence.[8] He previously maintained a cloud-based WPA cracking service[9] and a targeted anonymity service called GoogleSharing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike

Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted instant messaging service developed by the non-profit Signal Technology Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. Users can send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos.[15] It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls,[16][17] and the Android version can optionally function as an SMS app.[18] Signal uses standard cellular telephone numbers as identifiers and secures all communications to other Signal users with end-to-end encryption. The client software includes mechanisms by which users can independently verify the identity of their contacts and the integrity of the data channel.[18][19] Signal's software is free and open-source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)

Whisper Systems was an enterprise mobile security company that was acquired by Twitter in November 2011.[1][2] The company was co-founded by security researcher Moxie Marlinspike and roboticist Stuart Anderson in 2010.[3] Some of Whisper Systems' software was made available under free software licenses after the acquisition,[4] which led to the creation of OpenWhisperSystems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_Systems (more)

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Michael Nielsen: Augmenting Long-term Memory. Alexander Luria went on to study Shereshevsky's memory for the next 30 years. In a book summing up his research Alexander Luria, “The Mind of a Mnemonist”, Harvard University Press (1968)., Luria reported that: [I]t appeared that there was no limit either to the capacity of S.'s memory or to the durability of the traces he retained.* (more)

Shane Mc Chesney introduced me to the joys of the Thin Book. A relief from the Fat Book (more)

Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events.[1] A random sequence of events, symbols or steps has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual random events are by definition unpredictable, but in many cases the frequency of different outcomes over a large number of events (or "trials") is predictable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness (more)

A wargame is a game that realistically simulates (simulation) warfare, as opposed to abstract games such as chess.[1] Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts. Many wargames recreate specific historic battles, and can cover either whole wars, or any campaigns, battles, or lower-level engagements within them. Many simulate land combat, but there are wargames for naval and air combat as well. Generally, events based on live action (people actually performing simulated combat activities) are not considered wargames. Some writers may refer to a military's field training exercises as "live wargames", but certain institutions such as the US Navy do not accept this.[2] Likewise, activities like paintball are sports rather than wargames. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wargame