creator of Wardley Mapping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardley_map, http://wardleypedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page (more)

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How increase the spread of digital garden spaces, esp publicly-readable (outer) digital gardens? (more)

I think a Wiki is hugely superior to a WebLog for a team (Wiki For CollaborationWare). (more)

Video Conference app/service (more)

aka multi-user, but in more of a coordination process

When multiple people are writing about similar/overlapping topics in a bounded period of time, and reading each other's notes. cf parallel play (coordination, Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts) (more)

the agile mindset - see (Ward Cunningham's?) http://path.ward.asia.wiki.org/view/agile-mindset

WritingSlowly: Improve your notes (and your life) with two-word phrases. Since my notes are mainly modular, it’s fairly easy to connect two seemingly separate ideas or concepts to create a new one. I’m intrigued by how important this activity of recombination has been in the history of innovation. (collage, remix) (more)

A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers.[2][3][4][5] Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create and store value as brand equity for the object identified, to the benefit of the brand's customers, its owners and shareholders.[6] Brand names are sometimes distinguished from generic or store brands. The practice of branding—in the original literal sense of marking by burning—is thought to have begun with the ancient Egyptians, who are known to have engaged in livestock branding and branded slaves as early as 2,700 BCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand

A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers use a firearm to kill or injure multiple individuals in rapid succession. There is no widely accepted specific definition, and different organizations tracking such incidents use different criteria. Mass shootings are generally characterized by the targeting (often indiscriminate) of victims in a non-combat setting, and thus the term generally excludes gang violence, shootouts and warfare. Mass shootings may be done for personal or psychological reasons, such as by individuals who are deeply disgruntled, seeking notoriety, or are intensely angry at a perceived grievance; though they have also been used as a terrorist tactic, such as when members of an ethnic or religious minority are targeted. The perpetrator of an ongoing mass shooting may be referred to as an active shooter. In the United States, the country with the most mass shootings, the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012 defines "mass killings" as three or more killings in a single incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting (more)

Connecticut beach town, site of (2012-12-14) Sandy Hook School Shooting

A crisis actor (aka actor-patient or actor victim) is a trained actor, role player, volunteer, or other person engaged to portray a disaster victim during emergency drills to train first responders such as police, firefighters or EMS personnel. Crisis actors are used to create high-fidelity simulations of disasters in order to allow first responders to practice their skills and help emergency services to prepare and train in realistic scenarios as part of full-scale disaster exercises.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The term has also been used by conspiracy theorists (conspiracy theory) who claim that some mass shootings and other terror events are staged for the advancement of various political objectives such as to advance gun control measures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_actor

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls "disaster capitalism". In this strategy, political actors exploit the chaos of natural disasters, wars, and other crises (crisis) to push through unpopular policies such as deregulation and privatization. This economic "shock therapy" favors corporate interests while disadvantaging and disenfranchising citizens when they are too distracted and overwhelmed to respond or resist effectively. The book challenges the narrative that free market capitalist policies have been welcomed by the inhabitants of regions where they have been implemented, and it argues that several man-made events, including the Iraq War, were intentionally undertaken with the goal of pushing through these unpopular policies in their wake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

book on habit formation/retention by James Clear - https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

Divya Siddarth, Glen Weyl, and Anne-Marie Slaughter: We need network societies, not network states. Balaji Srinivasan aspires to be the John Locke of the Digital Age. His book, The Network State (TNS), puts forth a new social contract enabled by “Web3 technology,” centered on blockchains. (more)

Simon Wardley: How organizations are changing. Just over a decade ago, I published the table in figure 1 to describe how organisations were shifting from a traditional form to a set of next generation behaviours. Whilst the table was welcome in some quarters, it was generally met with derision and comments of “this is just for startups”. (more)

Trevor Paglen: Society of the Psyop, Part 1: UFOs and the Future of Media. Generative AI, Adtech, recommendation engines, engagement economies, personalized search, and machine learning are inaugurating a new relationship between humans and media. Pictures are now looking at us looking at them, eliciting feedback and evolving. We’ve entered a protean, targeted visual culture that shows us what it believes we want to see, measures our reactions, then morphs itself to optimize for the reactions and actions it wants. New forms of media prod and persuade, modulate and manipulate, shaping worldviews and actions to induce us into believing what they want us to believe, and to extract value and exert influence. (more)

Brainwashing is the controversial idea that the human mind can be altered or controlled against a person's will by manipulative psychological techniques.[1] Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject's ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds,[2] as well as to change their attitudes, values, and beliefs.[3][4] The term "brainwashing" was first used in English by Edward Hunter in 1950 to describe how the Chinese government appeared to make people cooperate with them during the Korean War.

An unidentified flying object (UFO), or unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP),[a] is any perceived airborne, submerged or transmedium phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.[2] Upon investigation, most UFOs are identified as known objects or atmospheric phenomena, while a small number remain unexplained. While unusual sightings have been reported in the sky throughout history, UFOs became culturally prominent after World War II, escalating during the Space Age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object (more)