A Hypermedia Pattern Language. Since Human Systems are Complex Systems from Civilization All the Way Down to human brains, our sense-making and collaboration and communication systems should leverage associative/composable media. (more)

ClojureScript is a compiler for Clojure that targets JavaScript. It emits JavaScript code which is compatible with the advanced compilation mode of the Google Closure optimizing compiler. https://clojurescript.org/ (more)

Mob programming (informally mobbing) is a software development approach where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer. This is similar to pair programming where two people sit at the same computer and collaborate on the same code at the same time. With mob programming, the collaboration is extended to everyone on the team, while still using a single computer for writing the code and inputting it into the code base. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming (more)

‘The Sims’ Creator Is Releasing an NFT Game That Plays on Your Subconscious. Proxi will let users own their memory creations as NFTs, and even profit from the sale of user-created items within the game. According to Bloomberg, “virtually everything” in the game can take the form of an NFT that can be resold to other users. (more)

One of the Organization Models avoiding bureaucracy, hierarchy, or Positional Power - Network of AdHoc groups http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy (more)

Warren Ellis's Global Frequency comic is going to be a WB TV series. (more)

"News" that someone creates despite knowing that it's incorrect. Is often spread (Viral) by people who also know it is false. Or who don't care (BullShit). (more)

Global Frequency is an American Comic Book limited series published by Wildstorm Productions, created and written by Warren Ellis... The Global Frequency is an independent (NGO), covert intelligence organization headed by a former intelligence agent who uses the alias of Miranda Zero. There are reportedly 1,001 people on the Global Frequency, forming an active Smart Mob communicating by specially modified video mobile phones through a central dispatch system coordinated by a young woman code-named Aleph. The purpose of the organization is to protect and rescue the world from the consequences of the various secret projects that the governments of the world have established, which are unknown to the public at large. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Frequency (more)

when a little effort has a big outcome, esp Phase Change (more)

John Rogers: LEVERAGE episode #204 "The Fairy Godparents Job" Post-game. we wound up with one of the most sedate first acts we've ever had. Good Lord, how we agonized over spending so much time in the briefing scene in this ep. Ironically, this episode arrived just as we were collating feedback off the 'net and found, stunningly, you people love the briefing scenes. (more)

TV/movie screenwriter: Global Frequency (unaired pilot - (2004-08-18) Global Freq Tv); Leverage; Eureka, The Librarians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rogers_(writer)

FogCreek Issue Tracker/Kanban Board https://trello.com/ (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 1/5/23: Various XBB Takes. conclusions: (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: How to Bounded Distrust (short version of (2022-02-13) ZviM On Bounded Distrust). Scott Alexander points out that the media, from The New York Times to Infowars, very rarely lies explicitly and directly. Alas, the media often misleads. It implies and insinuates that which is not. (journalism, fiat news) (more)

Dan Hon: s14e01 - The Hallway Track. Over the break I had a chance to meet up with a few friends I haven’t seen in a long time (more)

Dan Hon: s13e23: Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch. (more)

Hole In The Wall Educational Technology guy (more)

A big tool-design issue is juggling whether/how to be Opinionated vs Generative. (more)

PKM-ONE: Are Note-taking apps innovative enough? Right now the note-taking developers are not innovating but just trying to capture a pie of the market. (more)

Steve Yegge: Saying Goodbye to the Best Gig I Ever Had. Friday was my last day at Grab.com (more)