a way of programming through which you construct custom tools for each problem? https://wiki.ralfbarkow.ch/view/moldable-development see Glamorous Toolkit.

symbolic system/language? music notation, scientific notation

Transcript of Audrey Watters talk on "Convivial Tools in an Age of Surveillance" (EduTech). (more)

see Tools for Conviviality

Students are curious by nature, we just need to provide opportunities for them to be curious. They are amazing problem solvers when given the opportunity to create rather than consume information, to talk to each other rather than sit passively listening. They just need inspiration. Given one Google Doc, what could you put on it to engage, educate and inspire your students? HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. With strong educational philosophies built into each one, HyperDocs have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. They are created by teachers and given to students to engage, educate, and inspire learning.... give students opportunities to Engage • Explore • Explain • Apply • Share • Reflect • Extend the learning https://hyperdocs.co/ (more)

STM Journal Publishing medium by Konrad Hinsen (more)

tef: enshittification is what happens when a disney adult learns about captialism. i hate the term "enshittification" (more)

Woebot Health: Large-Scale Study Finds Mental Health App Forms Bond with Users, Marking Key Evolution in Digital Therapeutics. ...its most recent study, titled “Evidence of human-level bonds established with a digital conversational agent,” have been published in the open access journal JMIR Formative Research (more)

want to build Random antilibrary/ToRead-Paragraph app (more)

Venkatesh Rao asks: In Stephen Covey’s famous important/urgent 2×2 diagram, why is the Not Important/Not Urgent quadrant even there (other than for geometric completeness)? If you’ve always got things going on, the other three quadrants always trump the NI/NU quadrant after all, so do things in it ever get done? Do they need to? (Time Management) (more)

Paul Millerd: Too Big to Think - Beyond The "Next New Normal". (more)

Pavel Samsonov: When teams lie to themselves, they fall apart. When teams take on a stakeholder request to “build my idea” they stop solving problems together and become a workgroup of individuals producing outputs. (more)

idea that some institutions get too big to support actual thinking - internal politics and revenue-growth drown it out

The growth–share matrix[2] (aka the product portfolio matrix,[3] Boston Box, BCG-matrix, Boston matrix, Boston Consulting Group analysis, portfolio diagram) is a (2x2) chart created in a collaborative effort by BCG employees: Alan Zakon first sketched it and then, together with his colleagues, refined it.[4] BCG's founder Bruce D. Henderson popularized the concept in an essay titled "The Product Portfolio" in BCG's publication Perspectives in 1970.[5] The purpose of this matrix is to help corporations to analyze their business units, that is, their product lines. This helps the company allocate resources and is used as an analytical tool in brand marketing, product management, strategic management, and portfolio analysis... To use the chart, analysts plot a scatter graph to rank the business units (or products) on the basis of their relative market shares and growth rates. Star, Cash-Cow, Dog, question-mark/problem child... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth%E2%80%93share_matrix (more)

cult that is explicitly willing to let/cause people to die by following its beliefs

Jim Rutt: Transcript of Currents 080: Joe Edelman and Ellie Hain on Rebuilding Meaning. Today’s guests are Ellie Hain and Joe Edelman, who just launched Rebuilding Meaning, a new organization focused on radical social change. (cf Rebuilding Society On Meaning) (more)

The Rise of American Authoritarianism. Authoritarian inclinations and support for Donald Trump are strongly correlated by researchers. Authoritarianism seems to be the single attribute that best predicts support for Trump and Trump “wannabees.” (more)

The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism. The US Republican Party has become increasingly authoritarian and extreme in recent years, and it doesn’t seem likely to moderate that in the foreseeable future. (more)

Computer-enhanced healthcare, aka e-health

Digital therapeutics, a subset of digital health (e-health), is a health discipline and treatment option that utilizes a digital and often online health technologies to treat a medical or psychological (mental health) condition.[1][2][3][4] The treatment relies on behavioral and lifestyle changes usually spurred by a collection of digital impetuses.[5][6] Because of the digital nature of the methodology, data can be collected and analyzed as both a progress report and a preventative measure.[7][8][9][10][11][12] Treatments are being developed for the prevention and management of a wide variety of diseases and conditions, including type II diabetes, congestive heart failure, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, asthma, substance abuse, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, depression, and several others.[1][13][14][15] Digital therapeutics often employ strategies rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_therapeutics (more)