To Prioritize Projects is often a pointless exercise of Project Management. (more)

from The Everything Store: “At a management offsite in the late 1990s, a team of well-intentioned junior executives stood up before the company’s top brass and gave a presentation on a problem indigenous to all large organizations: the difficulty of coordinating far-flung divisions. The junior executives recommended a variety of different techniques to foster cross-group dialogue and afterward seemed proud of their own ingenuity. Then Jeff Bezos, his face red and the blood vessel in his forehead pulsing, spoke up. (more)

Jef Raskin project

Next, Inc. (later Next Computer, Inc. and Next Software, Inc. and stylized as NeXT) was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets. NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after he resigned from Apple the same year. NeXT introduced the first NeXT Computer in 1988, and the smaller NeXTstation in 1990. Sales of the NeXT computers were relatively limited, with estimates of about 50,000 units shipped in total. Nevertheless, its innovative object-oriented NeXTSTEP operating system and development environment were highly influential.[2]... Apple Computer purchased NeXT on December 20, 1996 for $429 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock,[3] and much of the current MacOs X system is built on the OPENSTEP foundation.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT

style/process of computer programming that leverages "plain english" communication for some amount of code-gen. (round-trip editing is always the hard part) Jump-started by ChatGPT? (more)

environment/language for electronic music live-coding

Live coding[1] (sometimes referred to as 'on-the-fly programming',[2] 'just in time programming') is a programming practice centred upon the use of improvised interactive programming. Live coding is often used to create sound and image based digital media, and is particularly prevalent in computer music, combining algorithmic composition with improvisation.[3] Typically, the process of writing is made visible by projecting the computer screen in the audience space, with ways of visualising the code an area of active research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding (more)

Steve Yegge joins as Head of Engineering (or, “Why I left retirement to join Sourcegraph”). Hey folks! TL;DR: I have joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world’s most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP). (more)

Simon Wardley: Why the fuss about serverless? It’s how back in Canonical in 2008, we knew we had to focus on the emerging DevOps world and to make sure everyone (or as many as possible) that were building in that space were working on Ubuntu. We exploited this change for our own benefits. As one CIO recently told me, one day everyone was talking about RedHat and the next it was all Cloud plus Ubuntu. That didn’t happen by accident. (more)

people Making A Living by creating low-value tasks for other people, then complaining (more)

a Robert Anton Wilson character, a pun on a Markov Chain

Gordon Brander: If headers did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them. One thing I’ve been thinking about is how to introduce an open-ended metadata primitive to Subconscious app. Key-value metadata is a fundamental pattern that we see emerge repeatedly. Where it doesn’t exist, we often see it bolted on after the fact. (more)

Gordon Brander: Pond brains and GPT-4. Stafford Beer and Gordon Pask were building a pond that thinks. Their biological computing project set out to build ecosystems with inputs and outputs, that could function as computers. (more)

Gordon Brander: Coevolution creates living complexity. Adewale Oshineye... coins the concept of a Gall-Meadows ladder. (Gall's Law, Donella Meadows) (more)

Gordon Brander: Subconscious napkin sketch. This quick sketch is a mashup of several theories that have influenced my design process, including… (more)

Gordon Brander: Noosphere design principles. We’ve been making a lot of headway on Noosphere the last few weeks. New contributors, progress on a Noosphere CLI, and the beginnings of the p2p petname name service. (more)

Gordon Brander: web2.0 has a bad emperor problem. In his book The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama describes a political dilemma called the bad emperor problem (more)

Gordon Brander: Complex ideas procreate through citation. A provocation from Richard Dawkins: ideas are alive! (more)

Opinion | ‘There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World’: David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I.. Over the past two decades, the philosopher David Chalmers has established himself as a leading thinker on consciousness. He began his academic career in mathematics but slowly migrated toward cognitive science and philosophy of mind. He eventually landed at Indiana University working under the guidance of Douglas Hofstadter, whose influential book “Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” had earned him a Pulitzer Prize (more)

Gordon Brander: LLMs and hyper-orality. a friend recently shared an interesting experiment: http://wanderer.glazkov.com. By fine-tuning an LLM on his writing, he taught his blog to speak back. (more)