Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: The One Parenting Decision That Really Matters. How much do parents matter? (Raising Kids) (more)

small Residential area (more)

At some point we'll want to move, and I want to think through a climate change future. (more)

neighborhood quality data https://www.opportunityatlas.org/

Tyler Cowen venture (more)

cf Huge Invention, Bold, Exponential Idea, 10x; Change the World; Phase Change; Moonshot; BandWagon (later/lesser case?) (more)

Tyler Cowen: My Personal Moonshot I have tried to take with my own career. My goal is to be the economist who has most successfully used the internet as a platform to foment broad enlightenment. (more)

Desire... (more)

Top of the Judicial Branch of the USA government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States (more)

Four Changes Coming to IRAs in 2025 1. Super-sized catch-up contributions for people aged 60 to 63 (more)

John Seddon: Alistair Darling’s back-office folly. Before describing my epiphany, a confession: I was a culture-change consultant (more)

Conquering Failure Demand. John Seddon defines Failure Demand as “demand caused by a failure to do something or to do something right for the customer”. (more)

Bob Marshall: Intervention on People Issues is a Red Herring...* (more)

play dat funky music, white boys (more)

A digital synthesizer/sampler (more)

Steve Blank: a startup is a temporary organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable Business Model. (more)

Jon Lebkowsky: The Mirrorshades anthology, edited by our cohost Bruce Sterling, surveyed a literary subgenre that was called cyberpunk not because the term had any precise meaning (it didn't), but because it worked as a catchy marketing bite, a buzzword representing ideas and memes that had resonance more through attitude than content. The vague term cyberpunk became a conceptual mirror, reflecting rather than conveying meaning. Over time `cyberpunk' referred less to a sci-fi subgenre, and more to a movement that was the beatnik underside of the evolving digital culture, encompassing the countercultural fascinations of the 90s -- the computer underground, rave/house culture, zine culture, designer psychedelics, goth morbidity, etc. (more)

Bluesky is an initiative to develop a decentralized social network protocol. Organized by Twitter as a non-profit initiative, it was announced in 2019 and is in a research phase as of 2022. Bluesky is owned by the team itself, without any controlling stake held by Twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol) cf Open Social Networking Model (more)

Silver Lake, legally Silver Lake Technology Management, L.L.C., is an American global private equity firm focused on technology and technology-enabled investments. Silver Lake is headquartered in Silicon Valley and New York, and has offices in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In June 2023, Silver Lake were ranked 11th in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking of the largest private equity firms in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_(investment_firm)

hosting service for WordPress, founded by Jason Cohen - https://wpengine.com/ (more)