masterpiece? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Work

Mergers And Acquisition

aka user acquisition - part of funnel (see AARRR) where you first "get" a user - you could define that as site-visit, or email-address-collect (more)

Sales Funnel Metrics - Acquisition, Activation, Retention (esp Bounce rate), Referral, Revenue - 2007-12-31-McclurePirateMetrics (more)

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Functions Everywhere, Only Once: Writing Functions for the Everywhere Computer. Written by Fission's Brian Ginsburg and Zeeshan Lakhani.... The Everywhere Computer is a decentralized platform that aims to distribute computational tasks across a vast, open network. This network spans from your personal machine to other devices on your LAN, a cluster of cloud nodes, and even to PoPs (points of presence) located at the edge of the Internet. (more)

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Maple syrup is a sweet syrup made from the sap of maple trees. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in late winter and early spring. Maple trees are tapped by drilling holes into their trunks and collecting the sap, which is heated to evaporate much of the water, leaving the concentrated syrup. Maple syrup was first made by the Indigenous peoples of Northeastern North America. The practice was adopted by European settlers, who gradually changed production methods. Technological improvements in the 1970s further refined syrup processing. Almost all of the world's maple syrup is produced in Canada and the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup (more)

when (almost) everyone who wants a DayJob can get one (more)

Tom Jacobs: Oprah and the Downfall of American Society. In the fall of 2000, I was a member of a Tuesday-evening therapy group in Santa Barbara, Calif...can sometimes lead to self-absorption. That’s the central point of Janice Peck, a social critic who feels far too many people are sitting on yoga mats when they should be marching in picket lines. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #121 Part 1: New Connections. That’s right. I said Part 1. The acceleration continues. I do not intend to let this be a regular thing. I will (once again!) be raising the bar for what gets included going forward to prevent that. (more)

Tyler Cowen: Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems. Tyler sat down with Patrick to discuss signature fields on the back of credit cards, whether bank tellers or waitstaff are more trustworthy, the gremlins behind spurious credit card declines, how debt collection and maple syrup heists should change your model of the world, Twitter’s continued success as the message bus for government and civil society, crypto vs traditional money transfers, the intended desolation of bank parking lots, why he moved to Japan and how it affected his ambition, why Tether hasn’t collapsed, the internet as a Great Work, how he’s experiencing reverse culture shock after returning to the US, what he’ll learn about next, and more. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 362: How (And Why) We Help. What if, in your attempt to help, you're hurting yourself and maybe even others? Can the outcome still be wrong if it meets the needs of the majority? (more)

Matt Taibbi: The Iowa Circus. only one thought comes to mind: They’re gonna blow this again. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #121 Part 2: The OpenAI Files. You can find Part 1 here. This resumes the weekly, already in progress. The primary focus here is on the future, including policy and alignment, but also the other stuff typically in the back half like audio, and more near term issues like ChatGPT driving an increasing number of people crazy. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #120: While o3 Turned Pro. This week we got o3-Pro. As is my custom, I’m going to wait a bit so we can gather more information. (more)

EBook distributor (more)

80,000 Hours: What are the most pressing world problems? (updated Jun'2025) (more)

Reasons to Change The World: (more)

Christopher Alexander book: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction ISBN:0195019199. I'll probably abuse Fair Use rules here shortly (at Alexander Patterns). Because it's not just about architecture, but about Design Thinking for kids, families, education systems, work, etc. (more)