In sports and video games, a pick-up game (also known as a scratch game or PUG) is a game that has been spontaneously started by a group of players. Players are generally invited to show up beforehand, but unlike exhibition games, there is no sense of obligation or commitment to play. Pick-up games usually lack officials and referees, which makes them more disorganized and less structured than regular games. Without formal rules and regulations, pick-up games are often played with a less rigid set of game rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-up_game

course/program where attendees all a lot of Writing and Peer Review of each other's writing to improve (more)

Lisp, Pattern Language guru - http://www.dreamsongs.com/ (more)

1-week Summer Camp http://www.tinkeringschool.com/ (more)

Marc Prensky (born March 15, 1946, New York City, United States) is an American writer and speaker on education. He is best known as the creator of the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrant"[1] which he described in a 2001 article in On the Horizon... He is the author of seven books: Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill 2001), Don't Bother Me Mom – I'm Learning (Paragon House 2006), Teaching Digital Natives (Corwin Press 2010), From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning (2012), Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom (2012), The World Needs a New Curriculum (The Global Future Education Foundation, 2014), Education To Better Their World: Unleashing the power of 21st century kids (Teachers College Press, 2016) and 100 essays on learning and education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Prensky

A scrip (or chit in India) is any substitute for legal tender. It is often a form of credit. Scrips have been created for payment of employees under truck systems, and for use in local commerce at times when regular currency was unavailable, for example in remote coal towns, military bases, ships on long voyages, or occupied countries in wartime. Besides company scrip, other forms of scrip include land scrip, vouchers, token coins such as subway tokens, IOUs, arcade tokens and tickets, and points on some credit cards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip (airline reward miles?) (cf carnival cash, loyalty program, LETS)

Martin Cagan: Skateboards vs. Cars Revisited | Silicon Valley Product Group (more)

novel by Umberto Eco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose (more)

Ash Maurya: Traction is the Goal. Everything Else is Distraction. (more)

An internal Yahoo memo by Brad Garlinghouse was leaked to the Wall St Journal. This is Yahoo's dirty laundry spread all over the world for everyone to see, and it voices a frustration that suggests CEO Terry Semel's chief lieutenants are restless and frustrated... "I've heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular. I hate peanut butter. We all should." (this is known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto.) (BigCo messiness.) (more)

Complaint about Yahoo's business strategy (lack of focus) by Brad Garlinghouse: (2006-11-19) Yahoo Garlinghouse Shakeup Memo (more)

Kieran Egan Schooling Pattern Language, as designed by Brandon Hendrickson (more)

Bradley Kent Garlinghouse (born February 4, 1971) is the CEO of financial technology company Ripple Labs. He previously was the CEO and chairman of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt). Before Hightail, he worked at AOL and Yahoo! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Garlinghouse (more)

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)

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)

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

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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)

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