Rob Walling (email): We almost sold MicroConf for seven figures. (more)

Entrepreneur creating very small business - often just a One Man Show (with some OutSourcing). (more)

Micropreneur conference/community run by Micropreneur Academy guys. The Leading Community for SaaS Founders Growing on Their Own Terms. Accelerate your SaaS growth with curated masterminds, events, and a global founder network. (more)

Do you know there's a shortened version of Pride And Prejudice available? (Only the "Edited by..." credit on the cover clues you in.) And that there are sequels to the storyline written by other people? (more)

some overlapping ideas/options (Book Publishing, Writing A Book) (more)

Judy Grupenhoff: If You Think In Systems (Systems Thinking) and See Patterns that Others Don't, This Is Your Moment. (more)

Erik Hoel: Consciousness is a great mystery. Its definition isn't. *There’s an unkillable myth that the very definition of the word “consciousness” is somehow so slippery, so bedeviled with problems, that we must first specify what we mean out of ten different notions. When this definitional objection is raised, its implicit point is often—not always, but often—that the people who wish to study consciousness scientifically (or philosophically) are so fundamentally confused they can’t even agree on a definition. And if a definition cannot be agreed upon, we should question whether there is anything to say at all. (more)

Sasha Chapin: How to Crush it on Twitter When You Don't Want to Do That. Perhaps you would like more followers on Twitter, because it would help you launch a business, or make more friends, or show your art to more people. Which is good: these are reasonable goals. But perhaps you find assembling a personal brand kind of distasteful. (more)

Customize your character (what class do you choose?) (more)

Sven Brodmerkel: You Solved It. The Institution Didn’t Notice. Part 5 of a series on why (smart) organizations do strange things to smart people. (2026-05-12) Brodmerkel Why Competent People Disappear: Functional Stupidity And The Invisible Professional You solved the problem before anyone else knew there was one... Not through the correct channel (more)

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Ong's Hat is one of the earliest Internet-based secret history conspiracy theories. It was created as a piece of collaborative fiction by four core individuals, dating back to the 1980s, although the membership propagating the tale changed over time. Ong's Hat is often cited as the first alternate reality game on many lists of ARGs. The characters were largely based in the ghost town of Ong's Hat, New Jersey, hence the name of the project... Joseph Matheny eventually concluded the project.[1][3] GamesTM magazine wrote that "Ong’s Hat was more of an experiment in transmedia storytelling than what we would now consider to be an ARG but its DNA – the concept of telling a story across various platforms and new media – is evident in every alternate reality game that came after... The Ong's Hat narrative is told in the form of conspiracy theories surrounding a group of renegade Princeton professors who had conducted quantum physics and chaos theory experiments to discover a new theory for dimensional travel using a device called "the egg", and were camped out in a parallel world.[3] Their story is introduced through two documents, Incunabula: A Catalog of Rare Books, Manuscripts & Curiosa, Conspiracy Theory, Frontier Science & Alternative Worlds and Ong's Hat: Gateway to the Dimensions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong%27s_Hat (more)

WikiEngine http://www.oddmuse.org (more)

participant in game playing (more)

Erich Seligmann Fromm (/frɒm/, German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈfʁɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory... Beginning with his first seminal work of 1941, Escape from Freedom (known in Britain as The Fear of Freedom), Fromm's writings were notable as much for their social and political commentary as for their philosophical and psychological underpinnings. Indeed, Escape from Freedom is viewed as one of the founding works of political psychology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm

agent character in a game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_character (more)

Not having been a Dungeons And Dragons type, reading Geektastic was the first time I recall running across the Alignment Model of Moral/Ethical behavior. Early editions of Dungeons & Dragons allowed players to choose between three alignments when creating a character: lawful, implying honor and respect for society's rules; chaotic, implying the opposite; and neutral, meaning neither. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons introduced a second axis of good, neutral and evil, offering a combination of nine alignments. There are a couple variants of Neutral/Neutral: Neutral alignment, also referred to as True Neutral or Neutral Neutral, is called the "Undecided" or "Nature's" alignment. This alignment represents Neutral on both axes, and tends not to feel strongly towards any alignment... Some Neutral characters, rather than feeling undecided, are committed to a balance between the alignments. They may see good, evil, law and chaos as simply prejudices and dangerous extremes. One test finds me Chaotic Neutral, today... (more)

Wilhelm Reich term from Character Analysis: Reich argues that character structures were organizations of resistance with which individuals avoided facing their neuroses: different character structures — whether schizoid, oral, psychopathic, masochistic, hysterical, compulsive, narcissistic, or rigid — were sustained biologically as body types by unconscious muscular contraction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_Analysis (more)

The eight-circuit model of consciousness (sometimes capitalized) is a theory in psychology, first proposed by Tim Leary. It consists of several quantum psychological systems that unify the various interpretations of the main altered states of consciousness into one coherent meta-theory. The most basic part describes, in a simple outline, eight circuits of information (colloquially "brains") that operate within the human nervous system. Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli have all written about each circuit in depth and how each operates in the lives of human beings, both individually and collectively. (e.g. "eight circuits of consciousness") (more)

Kyle Chayka: Should you write a Substack instead of a book? If you want to sustain a career as a creator of culture, you have to make money. Different kinds of artists do this in different ways. (more)