Fredrik de Boer on Why selection bias is the most powerful force in education (Schooling) (more)

Erik Hoel: Why we stopped making Einsteins. (With published responses following.) I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge (WorldWideWeb) and that didn’t trigger a golden age. (more)

Everyone has a complaint list about Mastodon, so I should write down my own. More importantly, I should consider whether such changes can/must be implemented at the level of app/flavor, instance, client, or add-on (cf Fediverse). (more)

aka calisthenics - Exercise using your own body's weight as resistance (more)

Liminal Warmth: "Responsiveness" Defines Meaningful Work. Two of the questions I return to frequently in search of career and project-oriented self-knowledge are, “What do I really want?” and “What should I be doing next?” (more)

writer https://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/ https://liminalwarmth.substack.com/

Older People Need Rides. Why Aren’t They Using Uber and Lyft? Ride-hailing — and, one day, autonomous vehicles — are game-changers, said David Lindeman, who directs health programs at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society at the University of California, Berkeley (more)

Sasha Chapin: What the humans like is responsiveness. What do the humans like? Apparently, they like this woman ordering food in a slightly flirtatious manner at a food truck... What sets this person apart? It’s simple: her insane responsiveness...Talking with her is like dancing lead with a really good follow. And dancing with a really good follow is fantastic. They make you feel like their endless marvelousness is a product of your actions. (more)

Matt Bateman: Running teacher training about agency this week. Nothing is more important than agency. But most people get agency wrong, especially educators who lean progressive. (Schooling) (more)

There are Nuclear Power risks from Climate Change. (But what are the actionable implications and alternatives?) (more)

evaluation of Risk Management associated with a party's Debt Financing (more)

virtual-mental health company acquired by Optum/UnitedHealthcare in 2020 https://www.ableto.com/ (more)

(old page) An expansion of the BlogWeb RSS-aggregator idea. Why just have a tool that manages "incoming" messages that originate from blogs? Why not have a single monitoring/filtering app that processes everything you're interested in, from EMail to private NNTP newsgroups to blogs, etc? (Backlinks at bottom will lead to references of other people thinking about similar things...) (more)

Conference where anyone can speak? Nope. (more)

Comma Separated Value-s (more)

My term for a digital garden that uses wikilinks, so that you get forward name-based links and Visible Backlinks.

a Programming Language (more)

Building Hypermedia Systems, by Carson Gross, focused on using HTMX. https://hypermedia.systems/ (more)

Jim McCarthy book (Pattern Language?) (2002) ISBN:0201604566 - "The Core" (v1.0) (more)

aka Stephen Bergman (more)