Attended a book-reading from Steven Johnson last night. Have some questions to nag him about - see Mind Wide Open. Meg Hourihan, Jason Kottke, and Matt Webb were there for support.

Game Rules that can have huge effects (Leverage, Side Effect) to Change The World. Games To Play toward Worldview Roadmap. (cf Theory of Change, Huge Invention) (more)

Shoshana Zuboff (born November 18, 1951)[2] is an American author, professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar. Zuboff is the author of the books In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, co-authored with James Maxmin. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, integrates core themes of her research: the Digital Revolution, the evolution of capitalism, the historical emergence of psychological individuality, and the conditions for human development.[2] Zuboff's work is the source of many original concepts including "surveillance capitalism", "instrumentarian power", the "division of learning in society", "economies of action", the "means of behavior modification", "information civilization", "computer-mediated work", the "automate/informate" dialectic, "abstraction of work", "individualization of consumption" and the "coup from above". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff (more)

Cory Doctorow book: How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism ISBN:1736205900 (more)

Human–computer interaction (HCI) is research in the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people (users) and computers. HCI researchers observe the ways humans interact with computers and design technologies that allow humans to interact with computers in novel ways. A device that allows interaction between human being and a computer is known as a "Human-computer Interface (HCI)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction cf User Interface

The object database storage mechanism behind Zope. Can be used on its own as well. (more)

Frontier is the core technology of Userland, built by Dave Winer. http://frontier.userland.com/ (more)

aka Object DataBase

spatial infinite canvas

Community of Tools-for-Thought users/builders https://talk.fission.codes/ (more)

Announcing JSON Canvas: an open file format for infinite canvas data. Today we’re excited to announce that the Obsidian Canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources at https://jsoncanvas.org... we created the .canvas format with an open spec. (more)

see Godot

*If GitHub Gists could run. (more)

small RDBMS engine (more)

visual/spatial interface that is designed to "go on forever"; cf zooming (more)

Steve Blank: How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean Startup toolset. Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: (more)

Cedric Chin On Ray Dalio's Principles. In 2011, I read a free, online-only book by Ray Dalio named Principles that changed my life... The book was then a handbook for Bridgewater employees, but was really a how-to guide to becoming effective at life — that is, achieving your goals, no matter how difficult things might be... You should read this if you don't have time to read Principles, but still want to benefit from Dalio's ideas. The sequence is in eight parts, at 10-15 minutes reading time each. (more)

Upwork Global Inc., formerly Elance-oDesk, is an American freelancing platform headquartered in Santa Clara and San Francisco, California.[2] The company was formed in 2013 as Elance-oDesk, after the merger of Elance Inc. and oDesk Corp. The merged company was subsequently rebranded to Upwork in 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upwork (more)

Market for independent labor - Virtual Asssitant, Project work, Consulting, etc. (more)

Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. (/əˈliːtoʊ/ ə-LEE-toh OMRI; born April 1, 1950) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served on it since January 31, 2006. After Antonin Scalia, Alito is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito