Fibery raises $3.1M Seed Round to build a second brain for teams. We started to think about another dimension of productivity — insights or aha-moments. We define teams’ productivity as quantity and quality of insights. (see (2020-02-20) Matuschak On Note-Taking) (more)

I've been interested in new computer interfaces and new ways of programming (aren't these the same thing?). I've worked at Dynamicland (check out ⭐️Geokit), at Stripe.com, and at Khan Academy. Among other things, I'm the creator of ⭐️Screenotate, a tool for macOS and Windows which captures the text and origin (URL, window title, ...) whenever you take a screenshot. I also made ⭐️TabFS, a browser extension that exposes your browser tabs as virtual 'files' on your computer (so you can manipulate them like any other files). https://omar.website/

SRS guru - see (2008-04-30) Memory Algorithm

Andy Matuschak: Leaps of insight emerge from prior thought. Leaps of insight depend on having accumulated lots of prior thought on those topics. Sometimes that accumulation happens entirely within our subconscious (our “subconscious back burners,” as May-Li would say), but it’s helpful to design our external cognitive systems such that our day-to-day noodling (digital gardening) can accrete.

user/member who uses a service most-heavily. Sometimes for status, sometimes given special powers (more)

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)

Tyler Cowen venture (more)

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

Climate Change SciFi by Kim Stanley Robinson: ISBN:978-0316300131 (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)