*The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.[1] Its mission is to "make pivotal investments in break-through technologies and broadly applicable platforms, capabilities, resources, and solutions that have the potential to transform important areas of medicine and health for the benefit of all patients and that cannot readily be accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity."[2]. (more)

precursor to DARPA, see also ARPA-H

Pentagon R And D outfit. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.[3][4] Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, often beyond immediate U.S. military requirements.[5] The name of the organization first changed from its founding name, ARPA, to DARPA, in March 1972, changing back to ARPA in February 1993, then reverted to DARPA in March 1996. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

Brain Training/Meta Programming book by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN:1561840564 (more)

Tim Leary "game" where you rated yourself on 16 mental attributes, and it generated a radial graph showing your state of mind. You could track changes over time, compare yourself to historical figures (rated by some expert, I guess), etc. (more)

aka Timothy Leary Tune in, turn on, and drop out. http://www.leary.com/ (more)

John Higgs: The High Priest and the Great Beast: Timothy Leary's Belief That He Was a 'Continuation' of Aleister Crowley. In 1972 Dr. Tim Leary picked up a pack of Aleister Crowley-designed tarot cards and asked them the question, “Who am I and what is my destiny?” He then cut the pack and found the Ace of Discs, the card that Crowley believed represented himself (more)

Ralph Metzner: on JFK, Mary Pinchot Meyer and the Leary Connection. I have come to believe that the multiple assassinations of leaders (JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X to name only four of the most prominent) that occurred in the 1960s signaled the end of the American republic and the establishment of a military-industrial empire, governed according to increasingly secretive, fascistic and militaristic principles, with the formerly “free press” reduced to being the propaganda extension of the controlling elites (more)

Strong Towns is replacing America’s postwar pattern of development, the Suburban Experiment, with a pattern of development that is financially strong and resilient (cf Resilient Community). We advocate for cities of all sizes to be safe, livable and inviting. We elevate local government as the highest level of collaboration for people working together in a place, not merely the lowest level in a hierarchy of governments. https://www.strongtowns.org/

"The Resilient Community Wiki" (more)

Hipster refers to a PostModern SubCulture of young, Urban Middle Class adults and older teenagers that appeared in the 1990s, being derived from earlier movements in the 1940s. The subculture is associated with indie music, a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibility, progressive or independent political views,[1][2] and alternative lifestyles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture) (more)

Rich Communication Services (RCS) is a communication protocol standard for instant messaging, primarily for mobile phones, developed and defined by the GSM Association (GSMA). It is a replacement of SMS and MMS on cellular networks with more modern features including high resolution image and video support, typing indicators, file sharing, and improved group chat functionality. Development of RCS began in 2007 but early versions lacked features and interoperability; a new specification named Universal Profile was developed and has been continually rolled out since 2017.[1] RCS has been designed as an industry open standard[2][3] to provide improved capabilities over basic text messaging, based on the Internet Protocol (IP). Its development has also been supported by mobile network operators to regain their influence against individual OTT (over-the-top) chat apps and services.[4] Additional features of RCS include presence information, location and multimedia sharing, video calling, and operation over mobile data or Wi-Fi, natively integrated in mobile phones without requiring the download of third-party apps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services (more)

Chris Armitage: We live in a fascist nation. What now? I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism in history. the success rate after fascists were elected was 0%. Once they win elections, it’s already too late. (more)

Best described as a "web Application Server for Python". (more)

Zuzalu.city is a decentralised open-source operating system that connects users to interoperable Ethereum ecosystem applications for innovating their communities... Zuzalu.city was born in the first of its kind techno-optimistic pop-up community of Zuzalu, and commits to becoming the most user-friendly operating system to interact with the tools and applications built by Ethereum’s decentralisation communities. https://zuzalu.gitbook.io/zuzalu-beta-docs/welcome/zuzalu.city-vision-and-mission

A division, sometimes called a business sector or business unit (segment), is one of the parts into which a business, organization or company is divided. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_(business) (more)

Organization models based on primarily business unit independence (more)

Evelyn Rodriguez on business Metaphors. She says Ricardo Semler debunks the need for a top-down Mission statement within a corporation. In the Seven Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler says that the mission statement is a carryover from the military and mainly intended for "public relations" and debunks the need for a top-down mission statement within a corporation. Semco itself does not have a mission statement. "The mission and credo terminology is borrowed from the military, and the deficiencies in the military analogy illustrate why grassroots, deed-driven values are preferable and successful." (more)

Summary: create multiple short consistent documents of your current business strategy/product strategy, to help people throughout the organization make decisions, generate ideas, etc. (more)