Malcolm Gladwell claims that online-based activism doesn't Change The World. (more)

The area is not recognized internationally as part of any sovereign country but is claimed by the Palestinian National Authority as part of the Palestinian territories. Since the June 2007 battle of Gaza, actual control of the area is in the hands of the Hamas de facto government. (more)

Jonny Miller: The Best Decision-Making Is Emotional. In my work as an executive coach... (more)

An Egan Pattern Language. As you might have already gleaned, this substack explores the vast possibilities that Kieran Egan’s approach to education opens up. Alas, he never laid out a specific curriculum. (more)

MacOs X DeskTop computer (more)

Reggio Emilia ([ˈreddʒo eˈmiːlja], also [ˈrɛddʒo]; Emilian: Rèz, Latin: Regium Lepidi) is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants[1] and is the main comune (municipality) of the Province of Reggio Emilia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggio_Emilia (more)

Logical Thinking Process : A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving book/process from William Dettmer ISBN:0873897234 (2007), updating/refining Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints process (see ToC Thinking Processes). (more)

The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty or the poverty paradox, is the phenomenon of countries with an abundance of natural resources (such as fossil fuels and certain minerals) having less economic growth, less democracy, or worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources.[1] There are many theories and much academic debate about the reasons for and exceptions to the adverse outcomes. Most experts believe the resource curse is not universal or inevitable but affects certain types of countries or regions under certain conditions... In 1993 Richard Auty first used the term resource curse to describe how countries rich in mineral resources were unable to use that wealth to boost their economies and how, counter-intuitively, these countries had lower economic growth than countries without an abundance of natural resources... Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who developed selectorate theory, explains that when an autocratic country has lots of natural resources, the ruler's optimal strategy for political survival is to use that revenue to buy the loyalty of critical support groups and oppress the rest of the population by denying them civil liberties and underfunding education and infrastructure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

a rationalization for bad behavior (more)

Doctor's Orders, by Jason Blakely. A piece that's not entirely wrong, but mostly argued in bad-faith. (more)

periodic bug, edible (see eating cicadas)

Fred Hebert: Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops. Instead I decided to follow my gut feeling and go with what I think really explains my perspective and the approach I bring with me to work and even my life in general (more)

Ash Maurya: Making happy customers is the universal job of every business. Making happy customers is NOT the same thing as making customers happy. The work of making happy customers happens in a customer factory. (more)

John Allspaw: What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause.’ In recent years, the understanding that failure in complex systems requires multiple contributors coming together to produce these surprising events that we call incidents has gained traction. (more)

‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living. ...the Eroski retail chain is part of Mondragon Corporation, the largest industrial co-op in the world. As a fully signed-up member, Fernández co-owns part of the supermarket chain that also employs her. (Mondragon Cooperatives) (more)

Similar to MetaCognition (but with more Iteration, Deliberate Practice) and Critical Thinking (but with more Self Awareness). (more)

Installing and running Python: the bare minimum you can get away with. Installing and running Python on a Apple Macintosh. (more)

Python preferred virtual environment manager - see (2023-03-27) BiteCode on Python installation and packaging esp on Mac

TOPLAP: Bret Victor on Live Coding. Bret Victor has another insightful essay up about “learnable coding”, which he says is an “immune response” to people saying his previous (also excellent) video was “about live coding”. He goes as far to say that live coding is “almost worthless” on its own. (more)

Stephen Farrugia: The Aura of Care. False Legitimacy Gained Through UX. In November 2022, Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, began a tweet thread with “I’ve heard you loud and clear” in response to a customer backlash over the way they hid additional costs till the checkout page (more)