Taking Notes in a NoteBook - see esp Digital Garden (more)

aka Sustainable Capitalism (more)

the source of initial (or at least early-stage) funding for many companies, especially during the DotCom boom. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 2/3/22: Loosening Bounds. Executive Summary: Cases declining quickly. My people are being let go in some places but not many yet, mostly slowly. (more)

Wikipedia is swimming in money—why is it begging people to donate? The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the non-profit that owns Wikipedia and other volunteer-written websites, is about to reach its 10-year goal of creating a $100 million endowment five years earlier than it planned. Its total funds, which have risen by about $200 million over the past five years, now stand at around $300 million (more)

Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times best-selling author (of Chaos Monkeys) and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok, and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Garc%C3%ADa_Mart%C3%ADnez_(author)

typically government program: safety net, welfare, social security, medicaid, etc.

Chris Aldrich: Zettelkasten Overreach. The basic zettelkasten note taking method is very simple and clear cut. Just a handful of bullet points can outline the elegance and simplicity of the system. This dramatic simplicity leads to some tremendous value and complexity (more)

Tools for thought by Matthias Melcher - http://condensr.de/

Christopher Alexander Value driving The Nature Of Order. (more)

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics and image processing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit

book by Seth Godin, ISBN:1591841003: Marketing used to be about Advertising, now it's about Story Telling. (more)

NVIDIA and and SoftBank Group Announce Termination of NVIDIA’s Acquisition of Arm Limited. Because of significant (anti-trust) regulatory challenges preventing the consummation of the transaction, despite good faith efforts by the parties. Arm will now start preparations for a public offering.

Matthias Melcher: Inspiring or distracting? Gradually I can tell better which kind of tools for thought do help (me) thinking and which do not. In a previous post I contrasted the ‘sovereign-posture’ app with the ‘clerk’ that Douglas Engelbart envisioned, i.e., the tool that helped augmenting the human intellect. Apps that push themselves into the foreground, seem more patronizing than helpful to me. (more)

Elon Musk wants to give you super human cognitive powers. He told Joe Rogan that his Neurotechnology company, Neuralink, is going to be announcing some ‘interesting’ news in a few months: (more)

Mike Solana: Prisoners of Scale Joe Rogan has been a favorite target of media scorn for years. (more)

Sophie Hagney: The Rise of the Tabulated Self. A rise in personal documentation meant that houses were filling up with bills, letters, tax forms, receipts, birth certificates, recipes clipped from magazines. As these archives ballooned, a new technology rose in popularity: the filing cabinet. (more)

Tiago Forte: Case Study: How the Second Brain Meme is Going Mainstream. I recently encountered the very first mention of “second-brain apps” I’ve seen referenced in the mainstream media. An article entitled The Rise of the Tabulated Self: I Saw the Best Minds of my Generation Being Uploaded into “Second-Brain” Apps by Sophie Hagney was recommended by New York Magazine (2021-12-31-HaigneyTheRiseOfTheTabulatedSelf) (more)

Ron Jeffries: The Fall of Scrum? I’m pretty sure that my Twitter and Slack streams are seeing an increase in the “Scrum should die in a fire” community (more)

Steven Levy on Joe Rogan. In an episode that went live on December 31, Rogan’s guest spun conspiracy theories about Covid-19 vaccines, thematically consistent with some previous shows. (more)