Attempt to win an argument by claiming that a more-credible and expert person agrees with you.

Scientism is the view that science and the scientific method are the best or only objective means by which people should determine normative and epistemological values.[1][2] While the term was originally defined to mean "methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to the natural scientist", some religious scholars (and subsequently many others) also adopted it as a pejorative with the meaning "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities)".[3] The term scientism is often used critically, implying an unwarranted application of science in situations considered not amenable to application of the scientific method or similar scientific standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism I use it more in reference to cargo-culting of fake scientific method, for a bogus Appeal to Authority .... I'd switch to "Science!", like Venkatesh Rao, but few would get it. PseudoScience?

Zvi Mowshowitz: Childhood and Education #9: School is Hell. This complication of tales from the world of schooling isn’t all negative. I don’t want to overstate the problem. School is not hell for every child all the time. Learning occasionally happens. There are great teachers and classes, and so on. Some kids really enjoy it. School is, however, hell for many of the students quite a lot of the time, and most importantly when this happens those students are usually unable to leave. (school is prison) (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Childhood and Education #8: Dealing with the Internet. It’s rough out there. In this post, I’ll cover the latest arguments that smartphones should be banned in schools, including simply because the notifications are too distracting (and if you don’t care much about that, why are the kids in school at all?), problems with kids on social media including many negative interactions, and also the new phenomenon called sextortion. (more)

Bob is one of the principal architects of the Jobs to be Done theory and founder of The Re-Wired Group. https://therewiredgroup.com/about/bob-moesta/ https://www.bobmoesta.com/ (more)

basis-case of Jobs to be Done framework

mutual fund designed to mimic an already-existing market "index", resulting in lower fees than managed mutual funds, often resulting in better net returns to customer.

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an acute gap between a person's desire and reality; cf compelling

What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, ISBN:633697223 - problem solving via re-framing (more)

Joe Procopio: How the Tech Industry Stopped Building Things Customers Want. When was the last time you waited in line to buy the latest and greatest tech product? (more)

Teacher for programmers and BootStrapping One Man Show-s. (more)

Martin Cagan: Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled | Silicon Valley Product Group (more)

see James Burke

The Republic of Letters (Respublica literaria) is the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas. It fostered communication among the intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment, or philosophes as they were called in France. The Republic of Letters emerged in the 17th century as a self-proclaimed community of scholars and literary figures that stretched across national boundaries but respected differences in language and culture.[1] These communities that transcended national boundaries formed the basis of a metaphysical Republic... The first known occurrence of the term in its Latin form (Respublica literaria) is in a letter by Francesco Barbaro to Poggio Bracciolini dated July 6, 1417;[3] it was used increasingly in the 16th and 17th, so that by the end of that century it featured in the titles of several important journals... There are some historians who disagree and some have gone so far as to say that its origin dates back to Plato's Republic.[5] Part of the difficulty in determining its origin is that, unlike an academy or literary society, it existed only in the minds of its members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Letters (more)

Rosicrucianism (/ˌroʊzɪˈkruːʃəˌnɪzəm, ˌrɒzɪ-/) is a spiritual and cultural movement that arose in early modern Europe in the early 17th century after the publication of several texts announcing to the world a new esoteric order. Rosicrucianism is symbolized by the Rose Cross or Rosy Cross. There have been several Rosicrucian (or Rosicrucian-inspired) organizations since the initial movement was founded, including the Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross (1750s–1790s), the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (1865–present), and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1887–1903). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism

For cooking rice, where you can set/forget, and have it last for 3+ days so it's always available. (more)

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