Arroost is a ridiculous music-making tool... Go to https://arroost.com/ on a device with a microphone. https://github.com/TodePond/Arroost by Lu Wilson (more)

John Luttig: When Tailwinds Vanish. The Internet tailwinds that propelled Silicon Valley’s meteoric growth for decades are stalling out. The ripple effects will jolt the tech industry. (more)

Incubator created by Paul Graham (more)

Director of the White House United States National Economic Council for President Barack Obama from January 2009 until November 2010, where he emerged as a key economic decision-maker in the Obama administration's response to the Great Recession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers (more)

Debt Financing crisis of 2008; aka Great Recession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_financial_crisis (more)

aka RFKJr

Zvi Mowshowitz On the UBI Paper. Would a universal basic income (UBI) work? What would it do? Many people agree July’s RCT on giving people a guaranteed income, and its paper from Eva Vivalt, Elizabeth Rhodes, Alexander W. Bartik, David E. Broockman and Sarah Miller was, despite whatever flaws it might have, the best data we have so far on the potential impact of UBI. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: The New Systems of Survival. About a decade ago, I was briefly obsessed with Jane Jacobs’ Systems of Survival model from her 1992 book of that name. (more)

Azeem Azhar: Turning UBI on its head. UBI should not be just about survival or consumer spending. Instead, it should be seen as a catalyst for driving technological change. A kind of long-form state support could shore up social cohesion and lead to better governance. That would have a halo effect. (more)

Nick Bostrom (/ˈbɒstrəm/ BOST-rəm; Swedish: Niklas Boström [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈbûːstrœm]; born 10 March 1973 in Sweden)[4] is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. He was the founding director of the now dissolved Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford[5] and is now Principal Researcher at the Macrostrategy Research Initiative.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom

Explicit knowledge (also expressive knowledge)[1] is knowledge that can be readily articulated, conceptualized, codified, formalized, stored and accessed.[2] It can be expressed in formal and systematical language and shared in the form of data, scientific formulae, specifications, manuals and such like.[3] It is easily codifiable and thus transmittable without loss of integrity once the syntactical rules required for deciphering it are known.[4] Most forms of explicit knowledge can be stored in certain media. Explicit knowledge is often seen as complementary to tacit knowledge.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_knowledge (more)

The concept of tacit knowing comes from scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi. It is important to note that he wrote about a process (hence Tacit Knowing) and not a form of knowledge. However, his phrase has been taken up to name a form of knowledge that is apparently wholly or partly inexplicable...as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge (more)

Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility (Ep. 213) (with Tyler Cowen). (more)

Jason Crawford: Two mini-reviews: Seeing Like a State; the Unabomber manifesto. (more)

Michael Nielsen and Shan Carter: Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence (Augmenting Human Intellect). What are computers for? Historically, different answers to this question – that is, different visions of computing – have helped inspire and determine the computing systems humanity has ultimately built (more)

Paul Seabright: The · Aestheticising Vice: systematic knowledge. In the Languedoc there is a vineyard that teaches us an important lesson about textbook learning and its application to the world. In the early Seventies it was bought by a wealthy couple, who consulted professors Emile Peynaud and Henri Enjalbert, the world’s leading academic oenologist and oenological geologist respectively. Between them these men convinced the couple that their new vineyard had a theoretically ideal microclimate for wine-making...If life were reliably like novels, their experiment would have been a disaster. In fact Aimé and Véronique Guibert have met with a success so unsullied that it would make a stupefying novel. (more)

Spalding Gray on NYC: It's an insane angel; New York defies observation. It is completely, hugely in your face and what it is for me still is a human miracle, because if you go out in it, as I do, the fact that existence is - is the miracle. The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode... What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place. It's one of the few living cities where people are living in the city that they work in. You know, that's amazing in itself.

Context: joining a start-up that has launched its MVP but not yet reached Product-Market Fit. (more)

the fallacy that the next feature you add will suddenly make people want to use the entire product. (more)

Open Source Systems Thinking/Systems Dynamics modelling/Simulation system. (more)