Our cat has been eating Fancy Feast as wet food since before we got him. He started on Classic-pate, now he eats more Grilled. (more)

Structured Group Discussion system. In the 1980s, Horst Rittel developed the Issue-Based Information System, a hypertext environment for the structured discussion of design issues. This system uses a stringent classification scheme to organize the data. There are three node types (issues, positions, arguments) and nine link types (responds-to, questions, supports, objects-to, specializes, generalizes, refers-to, replaces). These elements are designed to be used in the analysis of "Wicked Problems." (more)

Horst Wilhelm Johannes Rittel (14 July 1930 – 9 July 1990) was a design theorist and university professor. He is best known for popularizing the concept of wicked problem,[1] but his influence on design theory and practice was much wider.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Rittel (more)

No, not "evil" or "bitchin'": each attempt to create a solution changes the understanding of the problem. (more)

John Cutler: The Messifesto. One of the defining aspects of my 2021 was being exposed to hundreds of teams from around the world. It was fun, but also very challenging. While increasing my ability to pattern match and offer plausible recommendations, I also realized just how vast this space is, and how little I ultimately know. (more)

Wicked Problem

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #113: The o3 Era Begins. Enjoy it while it lasts. The Claude 4 era, or the o4 era, or both, are coming soon. Also, welcome to 2025, we measure eras in weeks or at most months. For now, the central thing going on continues to be everyone adapting to the world of o3, a model that is excellent at providing mundane utility with the caveat that it is a lying liar. You need to stay on your toes. This was also quietly a week full of other happenings, including a lot of discussions around alignment and different perspectives on what we need to do to achieve good outcomes, many of which strike me as dangerously mistaken and often naive. (more)

Tiago Forte video on using NotebookLM as a life/biz coach. (more)

a business metric that's a leading indicator, an input, which you believe you can improve, and believe that will lead to a positive outcome. (actionable)

book by Steven Johnson ISBN:1594489254 (more)

How Misinfodemics Spread Disease. They called it the Great Stink. In the summer of 1858, London was hit with a heat wave of noxious consequence...Their belief, the miasma theory of disease transmission, had some truth to it—it just wasn’t precise. (Ghost Map) (more)

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid-19 Kill. The distinction between droplet and airborne transmission has enormous consequences. To combat droplets, a leading precaution is to wash hands frequently with soap and water. To fight infectious aerosols, the air itself is the enemy. In hospitals, that means expensive isolation wards and N95 masks for all medical staff. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 330: (Un)common Sense Playbook. I remember listening to a podcast a few years ago featuring a Netflix engineering manager who described how he turned around a struggling team... The approach worked. The team (and the manager) turned things around... None of this sounds revolutionary (more)

The Mass Psychology of Fascism (German: Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus) is a 1933 psychology book written by the Austrian psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich, in which the author attempts to explain how fascists and authoritarians come into power through their political and ideologically-oriented sexual repression on the popular masses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism (more)

Representational State Transfer. A model for resource interaction that scales like the World Wide Web - is Generative - so even if designing an Enterprise architecture you get more scalability and flexibility. (more)

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Python learning book. (more)

The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.[1][2][3][4] A driving factor behind the relationship between the military and the defense-minded corporations is that both sides benefit—one side from obtaining weapons, and the other from being paid to supply them.[5] The term is most often used in reference to the system behind the armed forces of the United States, where the relationship is most prevalent due to close links among defense contractors, the Pentagon, and politicians.[6][7] The expression gained popularity after a warning of the relationship's detrimental effects, in the farewell address of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961. Conceptually, it is closely related to the ideas of the iron triangle in the U.S. (the three-sided relationship between Congress, the executive branch bureaucracy, and interest groups) and the defense industrial base (the network of organizations, facilities, and resources that supplies governments with defense-related goods and services). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex

projects designed to piss tax dollars into the home districts of powerful US Congress-men as a form of bribery (more)

"this part of twitter"; there may be multiple parts now, but first one was heavily post-rat: (2022-04-24) Rival Voices Tpot Is Littered With Postrats (more)