Like Fiat Money but for info. News that is more about telling you what to think vs what the facts are. Not quite the same as Fake News: Narrative dominates and Truth with a capital T is nowhere to be found. 2017-01-04-HuntFiatMoneyFiatNews

The mental practice of acknowledging the uncertainty/risk of every belief or decision or action. (more)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the Newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case (Murray Gell-Mann), physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the Journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. Michael Crichton in "Why Speculate?" speec. (more)

Tools for Conviviality is a 1973 book by Ivan Illich about the proper use of technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality (more)

Some notes on various tools I've used for various kinds of writing over the years... (more)

Multi-level (or multilevel) governance is a term used to describe the way power is spread vertically between levels of government and horizontally across multiple quasi-government and non-governmental organizations and actors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_governance (more)

Arthur Koestler CBE (UK: /ˈkɜːstlər/, US: /ˈkɛst-/; German: [ˈkœstlɐ]; Hungarian: Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany, but he resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism. Having moved to Britain in 1940, he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies, and numerous essays. In 1949, Koestler began secretly working with a British Cold War anti-communist propaganda department known as the Information Research Department (IRD), which would republish and distribute many of his works, and also fund his activities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler

*Holacracy is a social technology or system of organizational governance (Organization Model) in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy. The Holacracy system was incubated at Ternary Software, an Exton, Pennsylvania, company that was noted for experimenting with more democratic forms of organizational governance.[3] Ternary founder Brian Robertson distilled the best practices into an organizational system that became known as Holacracy in 2007.[4] Robertson later developed the HolacracyConstitution in 2010, which lays out the core principles and practices of the system, and has supported companies in adopting it. In June of 2015, Robertson released a book, Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World, that details and explains the practices of Holacracy. (more)

Recognition that the Internet allows for a larger portion of Social Organization (not just the Network Economy) to be based on Networks of small groups and individuals where large Command And Control organizations were previously necessary. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 230: From Prioritization to Accountability (and Autonomy). If you don't provide your product's investment and governance framework, one will be provided to you. And the person providing that framework (e.g., finance, sales, or marketing) will not create a framework that is friendly to making great products. (more)

improvement on roadmap

Janna Bastow: Why I Invented the Now-Next-Later Roadmap. The Now-Next-Later roadmap exists because timeline roadmaps aren’t effective, simple as that. Timeline roadmaps insist on deadlines, which means product teams are deprived of the flexibility that allows them to do their best work. (more)

a BlogBiz based on creating a number of WebLogs (more)

term from Manuel Castells (more)

Network governance is "interfirm coordination that is characterized by organic or informal social system, in contrast to bureaucratic structures within firms and formal relationships between them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_governance (more)

see Great Game

governance system/structure with multiple "centers". A big theme of Elinor Ostrom. Does each need a Minimal Compact? Is the infinite version Network Governance?

Dan Davies: why and when what works won't (part 2). This might be one of the factors behind the often disappointing performance of “evidence based” initiatives. Starting out with a mission statement to “do what works” often means failing to follow the Sparrow sequence of actions (identify a problem – gather evidence to understand it – solve the problem – tell everyone what you did). (2023-05-10 DaviesWhyWhenWhatWorksWontPart1) (more)

Dan Davies: slimmed down, dumbed down. A gratifying, albeit terrifying, experience since writing the book has been that people have written to me saying “how would you recommend actually implementing this model?”. (more)

Dan Davies: seeing like a right old state. I found that yesterday’s post on James C Scott’s “Seeing Like A State” was growing out of control. (2024-08-01 DaviesSeeingLikeAStateMachine) I thought I’d do “part 2” of seeing like a state. (more)