Steve Yegge imagines a Wizard School, a 7-yr Boarding School (Apprenticeship for The Craft) graduating 18yr-olds (Educating Kids) to become coders and CTO-s who end up as millionaires by 22. An interesting alternative to High School and a College Education. Hmm, but I Commented you'd have to interview 10-yr-olds, and I don't think anyone has a predictive process for that... And if such a kid changed their minds, and didn't want to be a programmer anymore, what else would they do? Steve actually makes a pretty good argument that they end up as Renaissance people anyway, but I'm not sure I buy that for teenagers.

Idea for getting through the Long Emergency. Focus on the individual rather than Resilient Community? (more)

Scott Young had Book Club: This month we read The Wizard And The Prophet by Charles C. Mann. It’s a story of two men: Norman Borlaug and William Vogt with different visions of the world (more)

Robin Sloan: What would a wizard read? This new novel is my answer to that question (more)

wizardly name of Jason Fox https://www.drjasonfox.com/about

(male?) practitioner of magick

stage magic, or magick

founder Reforge

generic version of TwitterCards - maybe OpenGraph

FoxWizard on journaling amidst the metacrisis. And if you're questing, it's worth kind of having a sense of what you're doing. And I find one of the most indispensable dispositions one can have is that towards daily journaling. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed. I have previously been heavily involved in sports betting. That world was very good to me. The times were good, as were the profits. (more)

Bryan Caplan: What Does the Success Sequence Mean? If you live in the First World, there is a simple and highly effective formula for avoiding poverty: (more)

A piece of content/experience that tends to nudge one toward a subversive (non-status-quo reality hacker) mindset. https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1423311248276561934 (more)

product launch plan - growth plan, growth team, growth model

Lenny Rachitsky: Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups: Alistair Croll (author, advisor, entrepreneur). My guest is Alistair Kroll. Alistair is the author of Lean Analytics, which was one of the most influential early books on how to use data in helping you build your startup. He's also a multi-time founder (more)

Jason Kottke: The Powerful Density of Hypertextual Writing. The NY Times has had a difficult time covering the 2024 election in a clear, responsible manner. But I wanted to highlight this short opinion piece from the paper’s editorial board, which I’m reproducing here in its entirety: "You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead....." (more)

marketing book coming out Mar'2025 https://justevilenough.com/ (more)

Dan Davies: the valve amplifier of history. I recently advanced the following sketch of an argument, claiming to “kind-of-sort-of believe it”: ((2023-04-05) Davies History Is The Bygone Which Wont Stay Bygone) (more)

Time Management method to keep from getting drowned in your To-Do List, works with Getting Things Done (Next Action) and other bigger-picture models (Worldview Based Living, etc.). Prioritize to 1! (more)

Freddie Joe Ward (December 30, 1942 – May 8, 2022) was an American character actor. Starting with a role in an Italian television movie in 1973, he appeared in such diverse films as Escape from Alcatraz, Southern Comfort, The Right Stuff, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Tremors and Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Henry & June, The Player, Swing Shift, Short Cuts, and 30 Minutes or Less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ward#Personal_life_and_death