Eric Von Hippel's Democratizing Innovation ISBN:0-262-00274-4 (User Innovation) is available as a free (PDF) EBook. (more)

My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Progress/Evolution by increasing Freedom and Opportunity and Agency (Enlightenment, Becoming a Reality Hacker) for many people via the D And D of Thinking Tools (software, Games To Play, Fractally Generative Pattern Language) that increase the Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (Product Team, SmallWorld, Network Enlightenment). (more)

making things better, moving forward (more)

The temperature+humidity at which the human body can't survive because it can't regulate its temperature. (more)

perspective, gloss

counter-point to Minimum Viable Product (more)

Henrik Kniberg: Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) – and why I prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable (more)

I've lost my iPod (7th-gen nano, 16GB). I have to decide what to do (more)

WyCash is a fixed-income portfolio management system. It is the first commercial software developed and maintained using all ExtremeProgramming principles and is therefore a noteworthy first instance of ExtremeProgramming Projects. WyCash is in use today generating revenue for vendor and customer alike a decade after its introduction. WyCash started as an ordinary Smalltalk Language project, with a prototype that evolved into a product. The WyCash team stayed with the product through many many releases. By continuously evolving their own practices the team created most of those of today's XP. https://wiki.c2.com/?WyCash (more)

aka Project Velocity (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: COVID-19 4/21/22: Variants Working Overtime. *The biggest other news is that Omicron variant continues to cycle into new variants. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Judge Overturns Transportation Mask Mandate. A federal judge has overturned the transportation mask mandate, saying the CDC overstepped its authority. The Biden administration is adhering to this ruling. It intends to appeal, but is not being loud about that. (more)

Snow Crash Revisited: Grokking a Satire of Mimesis. The first thing to grasp when reading Snow Crash is that it is a satire, a work that deliberately looks at the world through the lens of exaggerated, humorous motifs aimed at providing insight through magnification of salient traits. Snow Crash owes as much to the early Kurt Vonnegut as to William Gibson, with whom it is too easily associated under the label “cyberpunk.” Stephenson all but declares this intent in the well-known opening scene of the novel, a combination of ultra-high-speed car chase and pizza delivery that, we soon learn, has become the specialty of the Mafia in a bizarre future that reads as if Domino’s has come to be serviced by Mad Max. (more)

Empty actions (Theater) to make the populace feel like they "have" Security. (more)

aka us/federal Transportation Security Administration (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 5/20: The Great Unmasking. The CDC has lifted its mask mandate for vaccinated people. In one fell swoop, it is suddenly fine for anyone fully vaccinated to go maskless anywhere, without social distancing, at any time, so long as regulations and rules permit it. This retains the madness of ignoring partial vaccination entirely, and the madness of making children as young as two (!) wear masks around groups of fully vaccinated adults, but it is certainly a huge step towards sanity. There was also much confusion and opposition. Very Serious People expressed panic and horror. Others expressed reasonable concern that this was premature. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/16: On Your Marks. The main action continues to be at the Omicron Variant post. (more)

(Legal) requirement to wear a filter mask in certain environments, esp during COVID-19 pandemic.

Ryan Craig: Is It An Apprenticeship? With millions of unfilled good tech and tech-oriented jobs inaccessible due to both skill and experience gaps, there’s only one tool in the education/training/workforce arsenal with sufficient force to bring labor supply and demand back into balance. It’s not a college degree or bootcamp or training program. And it’s definitely not an unpaid internship. The only model that solves for skills and experience in a single, transfer-less, transition-less bound is apprenticeship. (more)

Max Read: Four questions about the "New Right". There's been a spate of recent articles about an emerging (or evolving) alliance between tech billionaires, right-wing politicians, Substackers, podcasters, and New York art kids...variously known as “dissidents,” “neo-reactionaries,” “post-leftists,” or the “heterodox” fringe—though they’re all often grouped for convenience under the heading of America’s New Right. (more)