Packy McCormick: Conjuring Scenius. IT’S TIME TO BUILD TOGETHER: In January, I read Taylor Lorenz’s New York Times piece on The Hype House, the LA mansion in which nineteen of TikTok’s biggest stars live, create, and collaborate. (more)

The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century. According to it, history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes: highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior intellect, heroic courage, extraordinary leadership abilities or divine inspiration, have a decisive historical effect. The theory is primarily attributed to the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who gave a series of lectures on heroism in 1840, later published as On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory (more)

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Cosma Shalizi: Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2023. (more)

Paul Millerd: The Way of Mediocre Man. Mediocre man flows through life. It is his birthright. He is not great man aiming at great results but merely trying to do enough of the right things over a long period of time such that it might lead somewhere interesting. (more)

Jason Pargin: How Mediocrity Can Quietly Destroy Us All. The evil in the world doesn't need you to join its side at all -- it needs only for you to succumb to a warm, dense fog that will descend upon you at some point in adulthood. That fog is called Mediocrity. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 271: Diagnosing Your Company's Strategy Problem. From your vantage point, it feels like no one in your company is being strategic. The answer to everything is, "But why can't we do both?" No one seems willing to make a decision. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky interviews Eric Ries: how to build a company that withstands any era. Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup, a book that reshaped how a generation of founders think about building companies. His new book, Incorruptible, explains how successful companies are destroyed by failing to protect what makes them valuable, and how to change it. (more)

Earth Web, by Marc Stiegler ISBN:067157809X (more)

*Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C.,[3] commonly known as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary[4] who lived most of her life in India. She was born in today's Macedonia, with her family being of Albanian descent originating in Kosovo.[5][6][7][8][9] (more)

The theme of the Complexity International Jounal is the field of complex systems, the generation of complex behaviour from the interaction of multiple parallel processes. (more)

The Cynefin framework (/kəˈnɛvɪn/ kuh-NEV-in)[1] is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making.[2] Created in 1999 by Dave Snowden when he worked for IBM Global Services, it has been described as a "sense-making device". Cynefin is a Welsh word for habitat. Cynefin offers five decision-making contexts or "domains"—'clear' (known as 'simple' until 2014, then 'obvious' until being recently renamed), 'complicated', 'complex', 'chaotic', and 'confusion'—that help managers to identify how they perceive situations and make sense of their own and other people's behaviour. The framework draws on research into systems theory, complexity theory (complex system), network theory and learning theorys.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin (more)

Dave Snowden says that Complex Systems are inherently unpredictable because they are non-causal. He finishes with the barb Scenario Planning as a method is a sure fire way of falling into all the traps listed above for managers, and PostModernism is a refuge for the confused academic who does not get point 1 above. (more)

Open Source Relational Data Base. http://www.postgresql.org/ (more)

It's not the same for all of them. But the point is, despite all the business books (case study), most have just 1 Golden Goose (ok maybe 2): a key capability, or a key decision. (more)

biggest part of Big Media (more)

Ross Douthat: The Atheist and the Machine God (AI). The implications of artificial intelligence for religion have earned slightly less attention, thus far, than its implications for the job market or the U.S.-China arms race. But while we wait for the definitive word on the subject — meaning, of course, the A.I. encyclical that Pope Leo XIV is supposedly releasing soon — it’s worth forecasting the religious future under artificial-intelligence conditions. (more)

slash1s: In 1999, MIT filmed a math lecture that quietly became the foundation of every AI model you've ever used and almost no one was taught to see it that way...39 minutes from Gilbert Strang, who taught this at MIT for over 60 years -- the linear algebra course an entire generation of engineers and data scientists grew up on. (more)

aka side-Hustle, side-hustle (more)

SideGig http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hustle (more)