bio : One of the world's leading Artificial Intelligence researchers, Dr. Schank is the author of more than 125 articles and publications. His books include: Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Learning in Computers and People, Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory, The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind, and Engines for Education. (more)

Roger Schank learning method, cf Case Study, Simulation.

Ken Norton: Product Manager Zero. How do you know when it’s time to add a product manager to the team? (more)

Cedric Chin: Product Development as Iterated Taste. Working Backwards is the first book to describe how Amazon really works, written by two insiders who were in the room when the techniques were first invented. I finished the book a few weeks ago, and I’m still chewing on many of the ideas (more)

cf Idea Maze

Alas, don't get there often, eat near Barrington Il. (more)

Re-discovery of Classical thought in Europe roughly 1400-1600. The present trend among historians is to discuss each so-called renaissance in more particular terms, e.g., the Italian Renaissance, the English Renaissance, etc. This terminology is particularly useful because it eliminates the need for fitting "The Renaissance" into a chronology that previously held that it was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation (and then Age of Enlightenment), which many believe to be inaccurate. The entire period is now often replaced by the term "Early-Modern". (more)

Cedric Chin: A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice. A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series of posts that examines the notion of putting 'mental models' to practice in one's life, in the pursuit of learning better decision making. (more)

Cedric Chin: The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading. ...reading in service of career goals (more)

Cedric Chin: Reality Without Frameworks. When you’re inexperienced, frameworks are wonderful things. (more)

Cedric Chin: Peak. Professor K. Anders Ericsson has had a very accomplished career studying the forms and origins of expertise. Early in his life he worked under renowned polymath Herbert Simon. (more)

An immutable in-memory database and Datalog query engine in Clojure and ClojureScript. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript (more)

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ (more)

some of my favorite bassists (more)

RESTful Web APIs book by Leonard Richardson and Mike Amundsen, with a forward by Sam Ruby. ISBN:1449358063 https://www.crummy.com/writing/RESTful-Web-APIs/ (more)

Frank Chimero: The Web’s Grain. It is a companion to What Screens Want, a previous essay on designing natively for screens (2013-11-14-ChimeroWhatScreensWant) Here we have a very vanilla website. No styles, just markup. All defaults. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid19 6/9/22: Nice. Things seem to have peaked in the Northeast once again. Nice. Things are getting worse in the South as the summer hits. Not as nice, not that unexpected. At this point we can pattern match. You know what else is nice? Not having to care about the pandemic (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Air Conditioner Repair. A few weeks ago, the in-wall air conditioner in our bedroom ceased to function. (more)

Mike Caulfield: Trump University's Online Materials Are a Lot Better Than Your University’s Online Materials. Yesterday, Roger Schank (famous cognitive scientist and learning theorist) released some of the work he and his team did for Trump University back in 2005 or so. (more)

cf opinionated, affordance