No Netflix Deal. No Trust Fund. How the F*ck Do I Fund a YouTube Show? Today’s entry is for every legacy producer, writer, or director who wants to make their first real YouTube show — and needs an honest roadmap for how to actually pay for it. (more)

It's easier to grok ideas that are adjacent to ideas you already grok. This means that ideas also have their own adjacent possible, emanating from the ideas that form your existing foundation of understanding. (more)

Karl Schroeder: Noon in the antilibrary. ...today I’m talking to Marius Rivas, the founder and CEO of Augmented Manners.” She turned to him with a smile. “Marius, you’ve called it ‘the first true political app.’ It’s just a phone app, but it has this magic ability to get people working together. How does it do this?” (more)

An EMACS PIM app https://orgmode.org/ (more)

Refined-standard MarkDown. http://commonmark.org/ (more)

Ian Piumarta and Kimberly Rose assembled a book Points Of View: A Tribute To Alan Kay for Alan Kay's 70th birthday. Available as free EBook for all of us. (more)

Michael Strong: The Missing Institution. What if many of the ills of our society are due to the fact that we are missing a key institution for the improvement of the human condition? What if young people need to be raised in healthy moral ecologies that are becoming increasingly rare? (more)

The gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of Gold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard (more)

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Ron Jeffries on Enterprise Agility?? *I was asked what I think of the Agile Alliance’s plan to create a manifesto for Enterprise Agility. (more)

Matt Zeigler on Sub-Genius Patronage Lessons. A friend and I were chatting about patronage and the arts. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Childhood and Education: College Admissions. (more)

Joe Procopio: Why Sheila Left the Tech Industry. I read her text twice, but I still couldn’t believe it. “I’m leaving the tech industry. For real. I start my new job on Monday.” That was from “Sheila,” who inadvertently became a bit of an anonymous folk hero when I wrote about her as “the Last Great Tech Employee” almost a year ago (more)

Annalee Newitz: Social media is dead – here’s what comes next. One of the not-funny ironies of the 21st century has been that everything we thought was social media is actually just mass media, except it’s terrible and broken. (more)

Judd Legum: How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity. "President Donald Trump, in terms of raw accomplishments, crushed his first six months in historic ways," the pair wrote in a piece published last Wednesday. Allen and VandeHei listed Trump's "wins": "Massive tax cuts. Record-low border crossings. Surging tariff revenue. Stunning air strikes in Iran. Modest inflation." (more)

Luigi Mangione superfans score seats to the premiere of “Luigi: The Musical”... given that Cole Escola just took home a Tony Award for playing widowed First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln in “Oh, Mary!” it would seem that darkly comic takes on assassination are trending — theatrically speaking, of course. (more)

Brian Bannon: Is Axios worthy? When Axios co-founders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei wrote a “Behind the Curtain” column last week marking President Donald Trump’s first six months, it was widely criticized on social media as shameless bootlicking and sucking up to power. (more)

Michael Strong: How to Give Everyone a Great Education for Free. After graduating from one of my schools, Cade Summers got a few friends together on a Discord server and they read and discussed Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich for a few months. Then they started to work through Harvard CS50 together and finished it. With an official Harvard certificate of successfully completing Harvard CS50 in hand, at eighteen Cade was able to get an entry level job at a software company in Austin and gradually work his way up to a software developer position. (more)

Michelle Amponsah: It’s Not Too Late to Avert Dementia After Age 60, US Study Shows. The key takeaways are to "move more, sit less, add color to your plate, learn something new, and stay connected," Baker said. (more)

Adam Gopnik: Was the Renaissance Real? We celebrate the period as a golden age of cultural rebirth. But two new books argue that the Renaissance, as we imagine it, is little more than myth. (more)