attempt to more fully/accurate measure the Whole World/WholeSystems cost of an object or activity (more)

Yes, I was a Band-Geek. (more)

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)

The Republic of Letters (Respublica literaria) is the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas. It fostered communication among the intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment, or philosophes as they were called in France. The Republic of Letters emerged in the 17th century as a self-proclaimed community of scholars and literary figures that stretched across national boundaries but respected differences in language and culture.[1] These communities that transcended national boundaries formed the basis of a metaphysical Republic... The first known occurrence of the term in its Latin form (Respublica literaria) is in a letter by Francesco Barbaro to Poggio Bracciolini dated July 6, 1417;[3] it was used increasingly in the 16th and 17th, so that by the end of that century it featured in the titles of several important journals... There are some historians who disagree and some have gone so far as to say that its origin dates back to Plato's Republic.[5] Part of the difficulty in determining its origin is that, unlike an academy or literary society, it existed only in the minds of its members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Letters (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)

The return of the KLF: pop's greatest provocateurs take on a post-truth world (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

A few intertwined thoughts/threads today.... (more)

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)