Hank Levy was a saxophone player and briefly played baritone saxophone for Stan Kenton, but he was most known for his composing and arranging, specifically in odd time signatures. His interest in odd meters pre-dated Dave Brubeck's Time Out album https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Levy The 2014 jazz film Whiplash takes its title from Levy's composition which originally appeared on the 1973 album Soaring by Don Ellis and portions of which are played throughout the course of the film. (more)

Cedric Chin: Every Great Business Person Has The Same Mental Model of Business. It’s nearly always more fruitful to mine the literature for already-extracted mental models of expertise. A few weeks ago, I learnt of Lia DiBello, an NDM researcher who specialises in the extraction of tacit mental models of business expertise. (more)

Study Finds Another Condition That Vitamin D Pills Do Not Help. The vitamin pills do not prevent bone fractures in most people or protect against many other diseases, adding to questions about medical guidance many now take for granted. (more)

Cedric Chin: John Cutler's Product Org Expertise. Cutler’s superpower is that he is able to talk to a set of product people and — within 8-20 minutes — figure out the system dynamics of their organisation, and then suggest a bunch of experiments to make that system better. His interventions usually take on the form of a prioritised list of experimental changes or team interventions. (more)

co-founder of Asana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz (more)

Dan Hon: Episode Forty Four: Snow Crashing. If you were going to read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash again... then you might re-read it substituting all the stuff that didn't exist when Neal Stephenson wrote it with all the stuff that does exist now. (more)

a compelling motivator for many - make money

aka "a made man" (power) - a compelling motivator for many

a compelling motivator for many

Cedric Chin: Don't Read History for Lessons. Here’s a real world story that you might be familiar with. The question I’d like you to ask while reading it is: what lessons might you take away from it? (more)

Robin Sloan: Whomst styles? a “whostyle”: an attempt to communicate more of an author’s voice, in the form of their personal design choices, in a quotation. (transclusion) (more)

Maya: initial musing on robin sloan’s spring ‘83 protocol idea (more)

people donating money to support someone's non-revenue-producing activities (more)

cf patronage

Everything is Deeply Intertwingled. Everything is a Graph.

the part of the market of indie/free-agent content creators, part of the attention economy (more)

aka creative (the noun) - see creator economy, public intellectual

Idea for hybrid of ELIZA-bot and Markov Chain for CoachBot. (more)

John Perry Barlow on the need of the Counter-Culture to stop the Route Around strategy and fully engage the anti-Freedom forces. He then notes the barriers toward following his own advice.

David Chapman: How meaning fell apart. My suggestions for how may evolve in the near future, and how best to relate to it, are based on an understanding of changes in recent history. I propose a series of modes of relating to meaningness that have developed over the past few decades. Each mode solves particular problems of meaningness caused by the previous mode; but introduces new problems of its own. This page introduces the modes; chapters within this history explain the modes and their implications in detail. (more)