Operations Research/Systems Thinking guru (more)

Russell Ackoff on the Philosophy of W Edwards Deming. Vs the reality of A corporation says that its principle value is maximizing shareholder value. That’s non-sense. If that were the case executives wouldn’t fly around on private jets and have Philippine mahogany lined offices and the rest of it. The principle function to those executives is to provide those executives with the quality of work life that they like. And profit is merely a means which guarantees their ability to do it.

the people in a group with the real Power. In-Group, Inner Circle (more)

a requirement for a company is to be sustainable (more)

John Ohno: Bot capitalism will fail. There’s been a lot of hype surrounding chat bots lately. I love bots, and usually I’m all for getting excited about the things I love, but I think the recent hype is very misguided. The reason is that the people contributing to the current hype bubble surrounding bots are not natural persons but corporate persons: they are excited about bots as products. (more)

No Netflix Deal. No Trust Fund. How the F*ck Do I Fund a YouTube Show? Today’s entry is for every legacy producer, writer, or director who wants to make their first real YouTube show — and needs an honest roadmap for how to actually pay for it. (more)

It's easier to grok ideas that are adjacent to ideas you already grok. This means that ideas also have their own adjacent possible, emanating from the ideas that form your existing foundation of understanding. (more)

Karl Schroeder: Noon in the antilibrary. ...today I’m talking to Marius Rivas, the founder and CEO of Augmented Manners.” She turned to him with a smile. “Marius, you’ve called it ‘the first true political app.’ It’s just a phone app, but it has this magic ability to get people working together. How does it do this?” (more)

An EMACS PIM app https://orgmode.org/ (more)

Refined-standard MarkDown. http://commonmark.org/ (more)

Ian Piumarta and Kimberly Rose assembled a book Points Of View: A Tribute To Alan Kay for Alan Kay's 70th birthday. Available as free EBook for all of us. (more)

Michael Strong: The Missing Institution. What if many of the ills of our society are due to the fact that we are missing a key institution for the improvement of the human condition? What if young people need to be raised in healthy moral ecologies that are becoming increasingly rare? (more)

The gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of Gold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard (more)

another SmartAscii format (more)

Michael Strong: How to Give Everyone a Great Education for Free. After graduating from one of my schools, Cade Summers got a few friends together on a Discord server and they read and discussed Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich for a few months. Then they started to work through Harvard CS50 together and finished it. With an official Harvard certificate of successfully completing Harvard CS50 in hand, at eighteen Cade was able to get an entry level job at a software company in Austin and gradually work his way up to a software developer position. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Childhood and Education: College Admissions. (more)

Annalee Newitz: Social media is dead – here’s what comes next. One of the not-funny ironies of the 21st century has been that everything we thought was social media is actually just mass media, except it’s terrible and broken. (more)

Matt Zeigler on Sub-Genius Patronage Lessons. A friend and I were chatting about patronage and the arts. (more)

Luigi Mangione superfans score seats to the premiere of “Luigi: The Musical”... given that Cole Escola just took home a Tony Award for playing widowed First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln in “Oh, Mary!” it would seem that darkly comic takes on assassination are trending — theatrically speaking, of course. (more)

Joe Procopio: Why Sheila Left the Tech Industry. I read her text twice, but I still couldn’t believe it. “I’m leaving the tech industry. For real. I start my new job on Monday.” That was from “Sheila,” who inadvertently became a bit of an anonymous folk hero when I wrote about her as “the Last Great Tech Employee” almost a year ago (more)