Tobi Lutke: Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify. (GenAI) Team, We are entering a time where more merchants and entrepreneurs could be created than any other in history. We often talk about bringing down the complexity curve to allow more people to choose this as a career. Each step along the entrepreneurial path is rife with decisions requiring skill, judgement and knowledge. Having AI alongside the journey and increasingly doing not just the consultation, but also doing the work for our merchants is a mindblowing step function change here. (more)

The loony left is a pejorative term used to describe those considered to be politically hard left. First recorded as used in 1977,[1] the term was widely used in the United Kingdom in the campaign for the 1987 general election and subsequently both by the Conservative Party and by British newspapers that supported the party, as well as by more moderate factions within the Labour movement to refer to the activities of more militantly left-wing politicians that they believed moderate voters would perceive as extreme or unreasonable... The 1980s UK press campaign against the "Loony Left" was echoed in the 1990s in the United States where sections of the press campaigned against political correctness (Politically Correct), using much the same rhetoric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left I'll probably use this page to list things that I think qualify. Though I still think I'm a liberaltarian. (more)

secure instant messaging that works over email https://delta.chat/

Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted instant messaging service developed by the non-profit Signal Technology Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. Users can send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos.[15] It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls,[16][17] and the Android version can optionally function as an SMS app.[18] Signal uses standard cellular telephone numbers as identifiers and secures all communications to other Signal users with end-to-end encryption. The client software includes mechanisms by which users can independently verify the identity of their contacts and the integrity of the data channel.[18][19] Signal's software is free and open-source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) (more)

see Signal app

food retailer; see also SuperMarket

Still going to the grocery store? With new COVID-19 virus variants (B117) spreading, it’s probably time to stop. We simply need to do what we’ve been doing all along to prevent infections, just much, much better. At an individual level, that means avoiding optional gatherings with other people — even grocery trips — whenever possible, or cutting them very short. (more)

grocery-store delivery service

Uber's food-delivery arm, competing with DoorDash

Steve Yegge: Why I left Google to join Grab.com (more)

Exquisite corpse (from the original French term cadavre exquis, literally exquisite cadaver) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g., "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun." as in "The green duck sweetly sang the dreadful dirge.")[citation needed] or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed... This technique was invented by surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Surrealism principal founder Andre Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. Breton said the diversion started about 1925, but Pierre Reverdy wrote that it started much earlier, at least as early as 1918... Later the game was adapted to drawing and collage, in a version called picture consequences, with portions of a person replacing the written sentence fragments of the original.[9] The person is traditionally drawn in four steps: The head, the torso, the legs and the feet with the paper folded after each portion so that later participants cannot see earlier portions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse

book by Robert Rodriguez

Citizens United v. FEC - Wikipedia. It was argued in 2009 and decided in 2010. The Court held that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political communications by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations. (more)

A founding father of HyperText. Now leveraging his ideas through the Bootstrap Institute. Core project is the Open Hyperdocument System. (more)

Matt Zeigler: Tiny Experiments That Turn Burning Out Into Burning Up. There's something beautifully vulnerable in Anne-Laure le Cunff's story of how she transformed a moment of complete loss into a creative renaissance. Post a promising career at Google, post the hard period after her startup folded, and right when she found herself feeling completely lost. (burn-out) (more)

Matt Zeigler: The Tiny Experiments Of Time Binders: Anne-Laure Le Cunff Meets Chris Mayer On JUST PRESS RECORD. I've been dying to release this conversation between Anne-Laure Le Cunff and Chris Mayer for Just Press Record. I strongly suspected an ex-Googler turned learn-in-public neuroscientist would have a thought or two about speaking with a multi-disciplinary investor who’s got a language philosophy soft spot. But, what I didn’t expect was just how switched-on these two professional curiosity cultivators were going to get by each other’s work. (more)

Shoshin (Japanese: 初心) is a concept from Zen Buddhism meaning beginner's mind. It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying, even at an advanced level, just as a beginner would. The term is especially used in the study of Zen Buddhism and Japanese martial arts,[1] and was popularized outside of Japan by Shunryū Suzuki's 1970 book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin (more)

Taylor Pearson training course, which is my primary structure for goal-setting from this week to 25-years out. https://taylorpearson.me/tee/ (more)

book by Anne-Laure LeCunff https://nesslabs.com/book (more)

Ness Labs creator; author of Tiny Experiments