aka Direct to Consumer: B2C focused on direct/online e-commerce

Gabe Strauss: Navigating Business Models for Mental Health Tech (and other e-health). Choosing a business model is one of the most important decisions for a mental health startup. After several years of working at early-stage healthcare startups and speaking with colleagues across the industry one thing is clear: mental health business models are complicated. It is critical to choose the right one(s), and many founders, product managers, and business teams wish they knew more about them. (more)

Nicola Fisher: Why I’m no longer using Obsidian Publish. It’s been a year minus 4 days since I signed up for Obsidian Publish... (more)

Gordon Brander: SCAMPER is a procedural idea generator. I’ve been digging through literature on creative methods and building up a library of “Oracular DNA” for Geists to draw from. While doing this research I ran into a really cool mental tool — SCAMPER. SCAMPER is a design method pioneered by Alex Faickney Osborn, the person who formalized brainstorming methodologies. It’s a general-purpose idea generator. (idea generation) (more)

Prison, lawsuits and a glovebox of fake cash: the film the KLF didn’t want you to see. In 2009 my long suffering producer Ian Neil sent me a text: “You should really make a film about the KLF.” (more)

Mike Caulfield: My Lazy Manifesto On This Post-Truth Moment: Technologies for Collaborative Exploration. My contention is that early visions of the web and digital technology (Vannevar Bush, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Tim Berners-Lee, Ward Cunningham) developed collaborative, exploratory approaches (Wiki, Memex, Dynabook, hypertext) as their dominant modes, but that later approaches (social media: Facebook, Twitter) chose modes that promoted propagation and tribalism. (more)

Christopher Alexander book: see Pattern Language, Alexander Patterns

Yancey Strickler (born November 4, 1978) is an American author, entrepreneur, and former music critic. He co-founded Kickstarter, the funding platform for creative projects[1] and wrote This Could Be Our Future, a 2019 Penguin Random House book about building a society that looks beyond profit as its core organizing principle.[2] The book also describes a decision-making framework that Yancey invented called Bentoism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yancey_Strickler

Jason Benn tweetstorm: What is culture? Culture is the ambient force that induces different ways of being into people. Similar to Alan Kay's "Perspective (Point of View) is worth 80 IQ points", I believe a powerfully good culture is worth, conservatively, 30 IQ points. (more)

Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound), and the Hamming distance. Born in Chicago, Hamming attended University of Chicago, University of Nebraska and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he wrote his doctoral thesis in mathematics under the supervision of Waldemar Trjitzinsky (1901–1973). In April 1945 he joined the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he programmed the IBM calculating machines that computed the solution to equations provided by the project's physicists. He left to join the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1946. Over the next fifteen years he was involved in nearly all of the Laboratories' most prominent achievements. For his work he received the Turing Award in 1968, being its third recipient. After retiring from the Bell Labs in 1976, Hamming took a position at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he worked as an adjunct professor and senior lecturer in computer science, and devoted himself to teaching and writing books. He delivered his last lecture in December 1997, just a few weeks before he died from a heart attack on January 7, 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming (more)

Software Engineering guru/author - wrote key Death March book

FedWiki community member http://marc.tries.fed.wiki (more)

The IAnnotate conference has a session on "The Future of Note-Taking" with Dan Whaley, Ward Cunningham, and others. The recording is on the page. (more)

creator of AnAgora mirror of many Digital Gardens. Eduardo Ivanec

conference on annotation https://iannotate.org/ (more)

Tina He: FKPXLS SPECIAL VOLUME: Embedded Education. The first generation of EdTech companies breaks into traditional classrooms with, well, technology. We grew up developing a love-hate relationship with Blackboard, Canvas, and Piazza. (more)

Connie: Alohomora. Popular fiction is filled with stories about children who grow to realize that they possess some kind of special power. (Harry Potter, Elsa) (more)

Dan Hon on Metalabels, or: Geocities Brands, and Old Mode. Yesterday I went to Near Future Lab’s General Seminar 20 on metalabels (more)

Max Headroom is a British fictional artificial intelligence (AI) character, known for his wit, stuttering and pitch-shifting voice. He was introduced in early 1985. The character was created by George Stone,[1] Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton. Max was portrayed by Matt Frewer and was called "the first computer-generated TV presenter",[2] although the "computer-generated" appearance was achieved with an actor in prosthetic make-up and harsh lighting, in front of a blue screen, with other audio and video editing effects... For his role hosting a music video programme, Max Headroom was conceived of by creator Rocky Morton as "the most boring thing that I could think of to do...a talking head: a middle-class white male in a suit, talking to them in a really boring way about music videos",[3] also deciding that he should be computer-generated. Canadian-American actor Matt Frewer was chosen based on his "unbelievably well-defined features" that Jankel noticed in a casting polaroid, and from his comedic improvisation skills that he demonstrated in a ten-minute audition.[3] The actor took inspiration from The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Ted Baxter... The background story provided for the Max Headroom character in his original appearance was rooted in a dystopian near-future dominated by television and large corporations, devised by George Stone and eventual script writer Steve Roberts. The AI of Max Headroom was shown to have been created from the memories of crusading journalist Edison Carter. (LifeBox) The character's name came from the last thing Carter saw during a vehicular accident that put him into a coma: a traffic warning sign marked "MAX. HEADROOM: 2.3 M" (an overhead clearance of 2.3 metres) suspended across a car park entrance.[3] The name originated well before the other aspects of the character from George Stone, who said "Max headroom was over the entranceway of every car park in the UK. Instant branding, instant recognition.".... Max Headroom originally appeared in the British-made cyberpunk TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, which was broadcast on 4 April 1985. The TV movie consisted of material originally planned to be broken into five-minute backstory segments[3] for a British music video programme, The Max Headroom Show, which premiered two days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom (more)

Scrivener (/ˈskrɪvənər/) is a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors.[5] Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research, and whole documents for easy access and reference (documents including rich text, images, PDF, audio, video, web pages, etc.). Scrivener offers templates for screenplays, fiction, and non-fiction manuscripts. After writing a text, the user may export it for final formatting to a standard word processor, screenwriting software, desktop publishing software, or TeX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrivener_(software) (more)