Henry Farrell: Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis. One of the most interesting ‘might have been’ moments in intellectual history happened in the early 1970s, when Brian Eno traipsed to a dingy cottage in Wales to pay homage to Stafford Beer. (more)

Term coined by Norbert Wiener. (more)

Stafford Beer (born Anthony Stafford Beer, 25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School[1]. He is best known for his work in the fields of operations research and management cybernetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer (cf CyberSyn)

Project-oriented Roadmaps are counter-productive for Software Product Teams. (more)

see Global Warming (more)

or, more generally, Climate Change (more)

Designer of the Apple Macintosh. And the CanonCat. (more)

John Ohno: Alternate Computer Universes: Jef Raskin’s Macintosh. For me, the idea of cyberpunk is tied tightly to the assumptions and aesthetics of the early ’80s. (more)

operating outside traditional/big institutions - Micro-SaaS/Micro-ISV, Micropreneur, One-Man Show, Two-Pizza Company, SmallCo, Neo-Victorian, Arts And Crafts, Co-op, SmallWorld/SmallWeb, SlowWorld (?), Bespoke, Boutique, Small Batch (2009-07-31-LindermanBoutiqueBizRename), Situated Software, Life-Style Company, NanoCorp, Auteur Theory, Grunt-Fund, Co-op, Bootstrapping (more)

Paid Site community for Micropreneurs. (Renamed to FounderCafe?) (more)

What is the goal/Mission of Educating Kids? (more)

Style of Schooling informed by the Industrial Age mindset. (more)

Audrey Watters thinks most people's (Sal Khan, Ken Robinson, John Taylor Gatto...) history/model of Factory Schooling is over-simplified. (more)

Cellular Automata book by Stephen Wolfram (more)

the ur-CyberPunk author (more)

Ben Hunt: This is the Great Ravine. This is all going to get much worse before it gets any better....In The Dark Forest, volume 2 of the Three-Body Problem science fiction trilogy, Cixin Liu mentions almost in passing a 50-year period of immense social upheaval, destruction and (ultimately) recovery across the globe. He never goes into the details of this period that he calls the Great Ravine. (more)

Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪt͡s kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛʃər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world. His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose, and Donald Coxeter, and the crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own research into tessellation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher (more)

I like it as a battle cry, equivalent to Hack The Planet. (more)

A general manifesto (Agile Manifesto) for "just-enough-process" Software Development methods. (more)

Emo Philips: The best God joke ever - and it's mine! This morning I received thrilling news: a joke I wrote more than 20 years ago has been voted the funniest religious joke of all time! In case you've missed it, here it is: Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?".... (more)