A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age. By Helen Beal, Bill Bensing, Jason Cox, Michael Edenzon, Dr. Tapabrata "Topo" Pal, Caleb Queern, John Rzeszotarski, Andres Vega, and John Willis. In the vein of bestselling titles The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited helps organizations radically rethink how they handle audit compliance and security for their software systems. https://itrevolution.com/investments-unlimited-book/

another SmartAscii format (more)

real-time Collaborative Writing, like GoogleDocs

Etherpad (previously known as EtherPad)[1][2] is a web-based collaborative real-time editor (Collaborative Writing), allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each author's text in their own color. There is also a chat box in the sidebar to allow meta communication. First launched in November 2008, the software was acquired by Google in December 2009 and released as open source later that month. Several services now use the Etherpad software, including PiratePad, board.net, Telecomix Pad, Framapad, MozillaPad (MoPad), PrimaryPad, QikPad, and TitanPad. Further development is coordinated by the Etherpad Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad

Robert Anton Wilson book, re nature of truth, contra scientism; ISBN:0941404498 (more)

MicroBlog tool http://twitter.com/ (more)

Jef Raskin computer

Greg Borenstein is a game designer, technologist, and teacher. His work explores game design, computer vision, drawing, machine learning, and generative storytelling as media for play and design. He currently works as a technical game designer at Riot Games. Greg is a graduate of the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and the Playful Systems Group at the MIT Media Lab. He was the consulting futurist and a co-writer for the Minority Report TV show and has worked for firms such as Makerbot, Berg London, and Polaroid. https://gregborenstein.com/

economy controlled by Big Government Central Planning (more)

an OutLining Literate Programming editor. http://leoeditor.com/ (more)

Interview by Geert Lovink with Ken Jordan on the Augmenting Social Networks paper from PlaNetWork. Mid 2003 a wave of excitement over something called the Planetwork conference in San Francisco reached me. Apparently an alternative and innovative attempt was under way to redefine the Internet, a medium so much plagued by corporate and state control, trolls, spam and viruses.

The idea that a tool becomes "hotter" when it supports creating, not just a network of users, but networks of networks of users. Which relates to Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration. (more)

see Group Forming Networks, Social Networking (more)

a Disputation Arena? Argumentation Visualization (more)

How realistic is an Urban Village or Alexander Patterns mentality to someplace like NYC (Nyc Challenges) (large CitySize, high Population Density)? (more)

Book by wiki Ernesto Sirolli

More than one study published last year by Una Mc Cann and George Ricaurte claiming significant risk from even a single dose of MDMA/Ecstasy are being retracted, after it turned out that one vial labelled MDMA actually contained Meth Amphetamine. Dr Charles Grob of UCLA said "Many of their studies have had seriously flawed methodologies. They've had questionable data interpretation and misleading conclusions. So we would strongly encourage a thorough review of the studies, both recent and over the last 15 years, run by that program." (War On Drugs) (more)

scifi/cyberpunk author

scifi/cyberpunk author

Ash Maurya is working on moving from the Lean Canvas to process/tools helping structure the assumptions/risks/experiments that it contains: he's calling this the "Lean Stack". You start out by drawing a line in the sand with your initial Lean Canvas, prioritizing risks, and systematically testing those risks through experiments. There is a built-in learning feedback loop from experiments back to risks back to the business model. While this process works conceptually, I often field questions from other entrepreneurs specifically on how to: correctly prioritize risks and define experiments; track those experiments so it scales over time (and with more people); reflect the learning from experiments back on to the canvas. (more)