Android app I used on my Pixel 2 XL to access my work MsOutlook email and calendar: (2020-01-18) Google Calendar vs Microsoft Calendar.

Model of categorizing US states/counties/citizens. (more)

Get Your War On is a series of satirical comic strips by David Rees about political topics. Initially, the comic concerned the effects of the September 11 attacks on New York City, but it quickly switched its focus to more recent topics, in particular the War on Terror. The strip debuted on October 9, 2001. From a technical standpoint the strips are crude, being assembled from about a dozen simple clip art pictures of office workers (with a few exceptions, most notably super robot Voltron) that are repeated, often in the same strip. Almost all are in red on a white background. There is an emphasis on dialogue, with little action. Highly disillusioned and cynical, it is heavily laden with expletives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Your_War_On (more)

process of thinking "above" rationality/rationalism

someone who embraces metarationality

see Jacob Falkovich

Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity;[1] is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers. The property is often ascribed to objects (a "sacred artifact" that is venerated and blessed), or places ("sacred ground"). French sociologist Emile Durkheim considered the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane to be the central characteristic of religion: "religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden."[2]: 47  In Durkheim's theory, the sacred represents the interests of the group, especially unity, which are embodied in sacred group symbols, or using team work to help get out of trouble. The profane, on the other hand, involve mundane individual concerns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacredness

Pierre Bourdieu (UK: /bʊərˈdjɜː/, US: /bʊərˈd(j)uː/; French: [pjɛʁ buʁdjø]; Gascon: Pèir Bordièu; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual.[3][4] Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields (e.g. anthropology, media and cultural studies, education, popular culture, and the arts). During his academic career he was primarily associated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and the Collège de France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu

mexican concrete/cement company

author of So Yesterday ISBN:159514000X about Cool Hunting/TrendWatching (fad Adoption Life Cycle) (more)

TrendWatch-ing group run by Li Edelkoort, who's from the Netherlands but has her office in Paris. They focus on Fashion Design trends, esp colors, but work with other design professions as well. (more)

Erik Schon's The Art Of Strategy: Steps Towards Business Agility. On Situational Awareness, OODA "Loops" and Wardley Mapping. https://leanpub.com/TheArtOfStrategy (more)

Steven Johnson book, ISBN:978-1-59448-771-2. This 2010 book adduces seven conditions (patterns) that enable discoveries and inventions (Huge Invention, Breakthrough, Generative), each of which gets its own chapter. (more)

My current Society Design game/model: Route Around BigWorld (more)

Steven Johnson on SmallWorld living in the Urban Long Tail. Urban theorist Jane Jacobs observed many years ago that, paradoxically, huge cities create environments where small niches can flourish. A store selling nothing but buttons most likely won't be able to find a market in a town of 50,000 people, but in New York City, there's an entire button-store district. Subcultures thrive in big cities for this reason as well: If you have idiosyncratic tastes, you're much more likely to find someone who shares those tastes in a city of 9 million people. As Jacobs wrote in The DeathAndLifeOfGreatAmericanCities, originally published in 1961: "Towns and suburbs . . . are natural homes for huge supermarkets and for little else in the way of groceries, for standard movie houses or drive-ins and for little else in the way of theater. There are simply not enough people to support further variety, although there may be people (too few of them) who would draw upon it were it there. Cities, however, are the natural homes of supermarkets and standard movie houses plus delicatessens, Viennese bakeries, foreign groceries, art movies, and so on, all of which can be found co-existing, the standard with the strange, the large with the small. Wherever lively and popular parts of cities are found, the small much outnumber the large." This is all in the context of Dodge Ball (owned now by Google).

Maggie Appleton: Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers. This is a talk I presented at the Local-first Conference in Berlin, May 2024. For the last ~year I've been keeping a close eye on how large language models capabilities meaningfully change the speed, ease, and accessibility of software development. The slightly bold theory I put forward in this talk is that we're on a verge of a golden age of local, home-cooked software and a new kind of developer – what I've called the barefoot developer. (more)

reference to the potential for social networking to help you find others who share a niche interest/perspective: Interest Graph, Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts

David Chapman: What they don’t teach you at STEM school. What they do teach you at STEM school is how to think and act within rational systems. What they mostly don’t teach you is how to evaluate, choose, combine, modify, discover, or create systems. (systems thinking) (more)

Andrej Karpathy: Software 2.0. Neural networks are not just another classifier, they represent the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we develop software. They are Software 2.0. (GenAI) (more)

I am a researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). I work at the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire in Orléans and as an associate researcher at the Synchrotron SOLEIL. https://khinsen.net/ (more)