A university (from Latin universitas 'a whole') is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.[1] University is derived from the Latin phrase universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars".[2] Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks.[3][4][5][6][7] The University of Bologna (Università di Bologna), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds. A monastery complex typically comprises a number of buildings which include a church, dormitory, cloister, refectory, library, balneary and infirmary and outlying granges. Depending on the location, the monastic order and the occupation of its inhabitants, the complex may also include a wide range of buildings that facilitate self-sufficiency and service to the community. These may include a hospice, a school, and a range of agricultural and manufacturing buildings such as a barn, a forge, or a brewery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery

There has never been an immortal human society. I work on figuring out why... In 2017, I founded Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and institutional landscape of society. I am a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute where I advise how institutions can shape the future of technology. https://samoburja.com/

Kei Kreutler: Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online accounts. (more)

Print-to-disk format used by Adobe Acrobat. Sometimes used for EBook publishing. Just horrible, pls use epub. (more)

Kevin Kwok: The Arc of Collaboration. When Slack.com first started growing, there were many debates over which company would own collaboration-ware, Slack.com or Dropbox. (more)

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)

Dorian Taylor tool. In­ter­tw­ing­ler is an engine for making websites. Its specific focus is managing very large numbers of very small objects, densely connected to one another in disparate ways. It was borne out of an observation that the Web, at least out of the box, is actually pretty bad at this.... End Users: In­ter­tw­ing­ler was designed primarily as a substrate for communicating complex topics. It’s made to maximize linking between small pieces of information, in a style called dense hypermedia (IBIS?). This helps you gain comprehension while only having to read the parts you need to... Self-Hosters: In­ter­tw­ing­ler is designed to ship as a single, stand-alone, open-source package that you can run on your personal computer, your server—​whether in your house or in a data centre—​or your cloud account. Eventually, a version of In­ter­tw­ing­ler will run on your phone. In­ter­tw­ing­ler is designed to federate with other instances of itself, not only for scale but also for balancing security and availability. With In­ter­tw­ing­ler, your single source of truth can be virtualized and spread across multiple physical locations, for a single, seamless information space. https://intertwingler.net/ (more)

I have come to tell you that you are free. Many ages ago, My consciousness left man, that he might develop himself. I return to find this development approaching completion, but hindered by fear and by misunderstanding. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Sense-making in federated discourse. In Feed Overload I made a brief case for some content gardening tools I'm missing in my fediverse experience (2023-03-27-ErlendFeedOverload) (more)

Samo Burja: Functional Institutions are the Exception. Within nearly every institution larger than a dozen people, insiders feel resigned about how hard it is to get things done. They complain, but don’t expect improvement. They maintain a coordinated competence only barely above the level necessary to keep the institution in existence. (more)

Vitalik Buterin: Why I Built Zuzalu. We tend to think about physical places, as well as the activities and cultures that come with those places, as being immutable. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Evergreen content gardens. A year ago in Feed Overload I wrote: 99% of all microblog (and chat) content is ephemeral by design, meant for a specific moment in time. But the 1% that should endure past the 24hr cycle doesn't have good ways to do so in the current paradigm. (2023-03-27-ErlendFeedOverload) (more)

Flo Crivello: Feel Like a Team Again With Teamflow, Your Own Virtual Office. Teamflow is a virtual office for remote teams. It recreates the casual, unplanned chats and the seamless collaboration that people miss from physical offices. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Age of Coordination. This is a meandering piece! It's a mashup of ideas revolving around interoperability that will be a lot easier to understand if you've already read Web of the People and Assembling Community OS. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Feed Overload. The all too common firehose stream has never worked for me. It’s undoubtedly a big reason why I never got properly into Twitter. (more)

Samo Burja: Why I'm Writing A Book. I am writing a book on great founder theory. (more)

Joshua Davila (The Blockchain Socialist): OTNS: The Rise of Coordi-Nations (Phase 2 has begun). Last month Primavera and I spent about two weeks at Zuzalu in Montenegro with a team of people from Blockchaingov and elsewhere to concretely define our network state alternative of Coordi-Nations. (more)

A Mobile Virtual Network Operator is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which it provides services to its customers. An MVNO enters into a business agreement with a mobile network operator to obtain bulk access to network services at wholesale rates, then sets retail prices independently.[1] An MVNO may use its own customer service, billing support systems, marketing, and sales personnel, or it could employ the services of a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVNO (more)

A variety of philosophies/attitudes around Less Is More/Good Enough. (more)