person who designs software architecture - hopefully they also build, else they risk becoming an Architecture Astronaut

person who designs software architecture but doesn't build anything - tends to design over-complicated architecture just-in-case. Term originated by Joel Spolsky. (more)

In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth, or the hero's journey, is the common template of a broad category of tales and lore that involves a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.[1] The study of hero myth narratives started in 1871 with anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor's observations of common patterns in plots of heroes' journeys.[2] Later on, others introduced various theories on hero myth narratives such as Otto Rank and his Freudian psychoanalytic approach to myth,[3] Lord Raglan's unification of myth and rituals,[2] and eventually hero myth pattern studies were popularized by Joseph Campbell, who was influenced by Carl Jung's view of myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 3/24/22: Respite. (more)

Bryan Caplan: Why I'm Homeschooling. I’m homeschooling my elder sons for middle school. On the surface, this makes sense: Homeschooling has been in the libertarian penumbra for decades. If you know my books, however, you should be puzzled (more)

Ben Hunt: Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 3: The Luther Protocol. Today we begin the battle to reclaim our humanity and our autonomy of mind. (more)

Filippo Valsorda: Professional maintainers: a wake-up call. I work on the Go team at Google, but this is my personal opinion as someone who built a career on Open Source both at and outside big companies. (more)

William Pooley: Who Believes in Belief? The "disenchantment of the world" remains a guiding metanarrative for many histories of the last four hundred years in Europe. There are those who continue to argue for what Keith Thomas called a general "decline in magic," even if they disagree about chronologies and causes.1 Yet there is enduring evidence that magic never went away. (magick) (more)

Dorian Taylor on Christopher Alexander: At Any Given Moment in a Process. Alexander had an unusual way of speaking, in that he rather unabashedly used language that made people feel uncomfortable. He wrote plainly and earnestly about concepts like wholeness, life, and living structure. To him these aren’t nebulous, mystical, touchy-feely sentiments, but actual concrete things that can be treated with rigour, and that’s what his whole career was about. (more)

WikiWord model of not using/requiring Smashed Together Words. (more)

Simon Wardley: Those virtual battlegrounds. In this post I’d like to discuss why I believe video games will become a new battleground for the soul (culture) of a country. (more)

Feeling a bit icked-out after (2021-03-20) Why You Suddenly Need To Stop Using Google Chrome - Surveillance Capitalism is out of hand.... (more)

In May'2020 I use: (more)

Digital Garden NotePages As Nodes In Miro MindMap - see https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1506050467201179651

Private/1-on-1 teacher

informal teacher, master (apprenticeship), coach

Steven Johnson: The Slip-Box And The Passagenwerk. In the late 1920s, the German philosopher and cultural historian Walter Benjamin began collecting notes for a project about nineteenth-century Paris and the historical imagination. Because its initial inspiration was the Parisian passages or arcades, the early prototypes of modern shopping malls, Benjamin’s project came to be called the passagenwerk—usually translated as the "arcades project" in English. The passagenwerk was a kind of intellectual labyrinth—a cross between a commonplace book of quotations and a surrealist poem. It was entirely built out of interlinked fragments: quotes from poets or old tour guides or sociological essays, interspersed with Benjamin’s own gnomic aphorisms (more)

Scott Alexander: Secrets Of The Great Families. Let's talk impressive families: Aldous Huxley... Henri Poincare... Charles Darwin... Neils Bohr... Rabindranath Tagore... How do these families keep producing such talent, generation after generation? (more)

Rohit Krishnan: How To Win Public Opinion, The VC Method. One of the iron rules of the world is that if you're successful in any domain you feel you have the right to an opinion in every domain. But one particular form of opinion has been recently trending in the memesphere. (more)

Market as alternative to straight Carbon Tax? cf Cap and Trade