Gretchen Rubin: Habit Strategies and Tips for Rebels. Many Rebels are very interested in learning how to harness the tremendous strengths of both habits and of the Rebel Tendency to help themselves become happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. (more)

Gretchen Rubin: Do You Struggle with Anger? I Sure Do. The Four Tendencies Framework Helps Explain Why. In the course of writing Better Than Before, my book about how to make and break habits, I discovered my "Four Tendencies" framework that divides people into four "Tendencies": Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, and Rebel. (more)

Gretchen Rubin: How to Be a Rebel. Every single day, all day long, each of us faces outer expectations and inner expectations — and we must decide, “Should I meet this expectation or resist it?” In a nutshell, my Four Tendencies framework distinguishes how people tend to respond to these expectations: outer expectations (a deadline, a “request” from a sweetheart) and inner expectations (write a novel in your free time, keep a New Year’s resolution). (more)

How These 4 Different Personality Types Find Motivation. If you’ve ever wondered why some people get more things done, it may not have anything to do with their supply of willpower. They’re probably tapping into inner tendencies that motivate them to act, says Gretchen Rubin, author of The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too). (more)

Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? A few years ago, Gretchen Rubin, the best-selling self-help author, pivoted from the happiness racket into the habit business with her seventh book, “Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives.” Embedded in it was a personality typing system of her own invention she called the Four Tendencies: a homage to Freud’s “fateful tendencies.” (more)

Alex Danco: Progress, Postmodernism, and the Tech Backlash. Anti-tech sentiment is far from a universal stance. But it’s more coherent, and therefore more dangerous, than I think most tech leaders realize. To really understand this movement, you need to recognize it as part of a reaction to something bigger than tech. It’s a rebellion against postmodernism. (more)

Beyond Social Networks: How Cultural Beliefs Really Spread. Social contagion didn’t adequately explain the anti-vaxxers. “We were passionately divergent about how we interpreted the same reality,” Goldberg says, “yet the idea that we were in different networks was just incorrect.” (more)

Joost Minnaar: Platform Organizations: The Next Big Thing? ...transforming the firm to a platform—a platform full of entrepreneurs who could interact directly with their users and all kinds of other stakeholders and resources (more)

Ruter Bregman: The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next? On 4 April 2020, the British-based Financial Times published an editorial likely to be quoted by historians for years to come. (more)

Approach to integrating SysAdmin work into Agile Software Development in the days of PaaS and Continuous Delivery. (more)

Continuous Delivery (more)

aka Continuous Integration

Dan Shipper: The Fall of Roam. I used to use Roam every day, but I don’t use it much anymore. (more)

E-Commerce, spreading from Book Store to "everything" (more)

treatment, esp drug, for depression

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of drugs that are typically used as antidepressants in the treatment of major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and other psychological conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor

vitamin associated with sunshine; anti-depressant? at least fights SAD. Also reduces COVID-19 infection effects?

Zvi Mowshowitz: On Bounded Distrust. Response to (2022-01-26) Alexander Bounded Distrust. Would that it were that simple. (more)

Gordon Brander: Exapt existing infrastructure (Exaptation). Designing an Internet (by David Clark) is a history of the internet’s technical design decisions, by one of the internet’s key designers. (more)

A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of death.[1][2] Micromorts can be used to measure the riskiness of various day-to-day activities. A microprobability is a one-in-a million chance of some event; thus, a micromort is the microprobability of death. The micromort concept was introduced by Ronald A. Howard who pioneered the modern practice of decision analysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort (that page includes many specific activities)