phrase from Prometheus Rising (more)

It seems like Gmail is Blocking Some FluxGarden Registration Emails - got a few bounces today with (more)

domain hosting provider I use

ESP - was independent but now acquired by Twilio

EFF: 5 Big Unanswered Questions About the TikTok Bill. In isolation, parts of the argument might sound somewhat reasonable, but lawmakers still need to clear up their confused case for banning TikTok. Before throwing their support behind the TikTok bill, Americans should be able to understand it fully, something that they can start doing by considering these five questions. (more)

government-owned utility company

Made-for-Advertising (heh MFA) Website (more)

EFF on Privacy-First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms. Many of the ills of today’s internet have a single thing in common: they are built on a system of corporate surveillance (Surveillance Capitalism). Multiple companies, large and small, collect data about where we go, what we do, what we read, who we communicate with, and so on (more)

Matt Stoller: The TikTok. Problem Is Not What You Think. While I support the bill, and find most of these objections lacking in credibility, there is some legitimacy to the skepticism, which I’ll get into. But what I want to offer is some basic framing, which is that this legislation has to be understood not as a substitute to a broader movement for reform of social media and privacy, but as part of it. (more)

EFF: Congress Should Give Up on Unconstitutional TikTok Bans. The only solution to this pervasive ecosystem is prohibiting the collection of our data in the first place. (more)

Jack Dorsey Mobile Payment system. (more)

someone "actively", "consciously" game-playing; vs NPC, acting dead; see esp (2018-03-14) Burja Live Versus Dead Players (more)

go away or I will replace you with a simple shell script! (more)

by James Carse ISBN:0345341848 (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Being Wrong. After a company achieves product/market-fit, things get complex. (more)

Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (ReST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding (more)

Back-justifying your decision-making. (more)

I'm not talking about "tools" as in software or pencils and graph paper. (But I'll reference those at the end of the page.) But rather philosophies, schools of thought, approaches to D-and-D in a New Economy, etc. (more)

aka Sales-led, contra product-led/product-driven

bad business strategy - see Good Strategy/Bad Strategy