Creator of FireFly. (more)

CB-Insights has published a metaverse market map. (more)

by Rudy Rucker, The LifeBox, the Sea Shell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life , and How To Be Happy http://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox/ ISBN:1560257229 (more)

Karl Edward Weick (born October 31, 1936) is an American organizational theorist who introduced the concepts of "loose coupling" (loosely coupled), "mindfulness", and "sensemaking" into organizational studies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_E._Weick

Jerry Michalski gave a talk at the Push2005 conference profiling "rogues" who assume that Amateurs can be trusted to do things, and create tools/structures to help them do that: Christopher Alexander, Alice Miller, John Taylor Gatto, Lars Von Trier, George Fox (Quakers), Richard Stallman, David Bohm, Russell Ackoff... (more)

circuits, etc. (more)

a soft model for reality - beware Model Theism (more)

Peter Lindberg on finding/picking a Metaphor for an Extreme Programming application. He talks about the RssAggregator concept, and echoes some Universal Inbox ideas... (more)

John Cutler: TBM 17/52: The Problem With Problems. People often distinguish between problem solving and problem definition. (more)

agriculture/food writer

The original SimCity has been donated to the OLPC project. This was initiated by Don Hopkins, the original coder (correction: he ported the original Maxis code to UNIX). He is integrating it into the Sugar UI system and will make it mod-able by Python. (more)

book on Raising Kids ISBN:0470471948 by Lenore Skenazy http://www.freerangekids.com/ (more)

Dilbert notes There's a fine line between Marketing and Hating.

Since when is Marketing a crime?

Today during the Tools for Thought Rocks call, Boris Mann noted that there's really very little mention/adoption of Tools for Thought, per Google Trends. Especially when you compare to Evernote. (more)

Does anyone have a model of activity alive-ness? (more)

"the" "current" model/framing of a problem - cf Problem Discovery

getting to the "real problem" (hah), leading later to Solution Discovery (more)

shared mental model, shared language

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