loss of Balance Of Trade/Trade Balance - when a country (or City Region?) imports more than it exports (more)

How do we exploit the technological revolution for green growth and global development? Celebrated economist, author, and scholar, Carlota Perez joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the nature of techno-economic paradigm shifts and current progress in the cycle of technological revolution. (more)

Design For Community interview with Howard Rheingold. Virtual Community is a subset of Online Social Network... If you go back to the earliest visions of Douglas Engelbart in 1963, in his paper on augmenting human intellect, he was talking about a system that consisted of humans using methodology, language, artifact and training. Human interface is only part of the artifact part of this. There's the language and methodology and the training. You don't go out and buy that when you buy a box. How is that going to be delivered? (more)

Sean Ellis: The Startup Pyramid. Startups require a solid foundation of product/market fit before progressing up the pyramid and scaling the business. (more)

Goal: run the same Python-based WikiEngine on my IBook and my Sharp Zaurus, then set up some Data Synch routines... (more)

PDA I bought on EBay in mid 2005 (more)

Note-Taking app. Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. https://logseq.com/ (more)

Tantra (/ˈtæntrə/; Sanskrit: तन्त्र, lit. 'loom, weave, warp') are the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards.[1] The term tantra, in the Indian traditions, also means any systematic broadly applicable "text, theory, system, method, instrument, technique or practice".[2][3] A key feature of these traditions is the use of mantras, and thus they are commonly referred to as Mantramārga ("Path of Mantra") in Hinduism or Mantrayāna ("Mantra Vehicle") and Guhyamantra ("Secret Mantra") in Buddhism.[4][5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra (more)

Threaded Discussion in Twitter. Sometimes also used for broadcast TweetStorm. (more)

My Pixel 2 XL has been increasingly flaky with voice and SMS/MMS, so it seemed like time to give up. (more)

SMS texting works ok, but MMS, either for a group text, or for a single-person text with a photo attachment, is often unreliable. I'm pretty sure this has always been true, but can't find a record of it before today. (On t-mobile with Pixel 2 XL.) (more)

ADD: A Different Perception ISBN:1887424148 by Thom Hartmann. Hartmann takes a positive view of ADD, stressing the successes that those with ADD can have using their talents and skills rather than dwelling on their difficulties. His work marks the first time an author characterized ADD as something other than a disease. (more)

see ADD: Different Perception and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_versus_farmer_hypothesis

Logseq raises $4.1M to Accelerate Growth of the New World Knowledge Graph. The financing was led by Patrick Collison, Stripe CEO, Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub, Tobias Lütke, Founder of Shopify, Sriram Krishnan, GP at A16Z, along with Craft Ventures, Matrix Partners, Day One Ventures, Charlie Cheever, Founder of Expo/Quora, and Dave Winer. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 5/5/22: A Lack of Care. I haven’t written an additional China post because my sources have not turned up much additional information, and the situation does not seem to have dramatically changed (more)

aka software robot, e.g. chatbot

Chris Hayes 2012 book: if you have this vision of an institutional arrangement with huge rewards for performance, it's trickier than it looks to design a system that doesn't also have big rewards for cheating (more)

Robin Sloan: Bad hosts, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the overlay network. Concluding my notes on Web3, I wrote that Ethereum should inspire anyone interested in the future(s) of the internet, because it proves, powerfully, that new protocols are still possible. (see (2021-11-11) Sloan Notes On Web3) (more)

Robin Sloan: The Truth About the East Wind. This a short story about curiosity, obsession, and one of the greatest cover-ups of all time. Also, Greek gods (more)

Anne-Laure LeCunff: Control your time to free your mind with the founder of Akiflow. Nunzio Martinello is the Founder and CEO at Akiflow, a powerful tool that allows you to consolidate all the apps you use into one place so you can block time for your tasks and see everything you need to get done in your calendar. (more)