A General Theory of Network Governance: Exchange Conditions and Social Mechanisms; Author(s): Candace Jones, William S. Hesterly and Stephen P. Borgatti. A phenomenon of the last 20 years has been the rapid rise of the network form of governance. This govemance form has received significant scholarly attention, but, to date, no comprehensive theory for it has been advanced, and no sufficiently detailed and theoretically consistent definition has appeared. Our objective in this article is to provide a theory that explains under what conditions network governance, rigorously defined, has comparative advantage and is therefore likely to emerge and thrive. Our theory integrates transaction cost economics and social network theories, and, in broad strokes, asserts that the network form of governance is a response to exchange conditions of asset specificity, demand uncertainty, task complexity, and frequency. These exchange conditions drive firms toward structurally embedding their transactions, which enables firms to use social mechanisms for coordinating and safeguarding exchanges. When all of these conditions are in place, the network governance form has advantages over both hierarchy and market solutions in simultaneously adapting, coordinating, and safeguarding exchanges. (more)

Book by John Ratey (1998) ISBN:0553379593 (more)

Karl Schroeder story "Degrees Of Freedom" from Hieroglyph Stories. (more)

First book from the Hieroglyph Project (more)

Venkatesh Rao: A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars. the United States is in the middle of the worst culture wars I’ve seen in my life, either in my 20 years in the US, or in the previous 20 years in India (which in the 90s saw equally ferocious, but less digitally mediated, culture wars). And for once, you can’t blame Donald Trump. He’s more consequence than cause. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Medical Roundup #2 (more)

Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's syndrome or Asperger's, is a term formerly used to describe a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.[5] Asperger syndrome has been merged with other conditions into autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and is no longer considered a diagnosis.[10][11][12] It was considered[13] milder than other diagnoses which were merged into ASD due to relatively unimpaired spoken language and intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

The DSM-5, published in 2013, redefined the autism spectrum to encompass the previous (DSM-IV-TR) diagnoses of autism, Asperger Syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), childhood disintegrative disorder, and Rett Syndrome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum (more)

Martin Cagan: Coaching Tools - The Narrative: my single favorite coaching tool for helping product managers become exceptional. (more)

group that does Team Work together on Product Development (ideally Agile Product Development) or D And D (more)

Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose: see Dan Pink's Drive https://www.danpink.com/drive-the-summaries/ (motivation) (more)

startup idea book, see backlinks

Delegative democracy is a form of democratic control whereby voting power is vested in delegates, rather than representatives. This term is a generic description of either already existing or proposed popular control apparatuses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy (more)

Natural Language Processing project from 1964, by Joseph Weizenbaum! - ChatBot (more)

Distraction by Bruce Sterling (1998!) ISBN:0553576399 (more)

aka GoLang (more)

The Authenticated Transfer Protocol, aka atproto, is a federated protocol for large-scale distributed social applications. This document will introduce you to the ideas behind the AT Protocol. https://atproto.com/guides/overview for BlueSky

The beginning-of-the-end of the US Golden Age? See section of A 20th Century Economic Theory. (more)

Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the built environment. Their buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have also contributed to the expansion of discourse about architecture. Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991; the prize was awarded to him alone, despite a request to include his equal partner, Scott Brown. Subsequently, a group of women architects attempted to get her name added retroactively to the prize, but the Pritzker Prize jury declined to do so.[1][2][3] Venturi coined the maxim "Less is a bore", a postmodern antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum "Less is more". Venturi lived in Philadelphia with Denise Scott Brown. He is the father of James Venturi, founder and principal of ReThink Studio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi

Paul Aligica and Vlad Tarko: Polycentricity: From Polanyi to Ostrom, and Beyond. The article overviews and elaborates the concept of polycentricity, defined as a structural feature of social systems of many decision centers having limited and autonomous prerogatives and operating under an overarching set of rules. The article starts by introducing the concept as it was advanced by Michael Polanyi and developed by Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom. It continues introducing possible instances of polycentricity as well as related notions, as part of an attempt to further elaborate the concept through a concept design approach that systematically applies the logic of necessary and sufficient conditions. The article concludes by arguing that the polycentricity conceptual framework is not only a robust analytical structure for the study of complex social phenomena, but is also a challenging method of drawing nonad hoc analogies between different types of selforganizing complex social systems. (polycentric governance) (more)