Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big. Small Giants takes readers deep inside 14 remarkable companies that have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying goals—like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, and making great contributions to their communities. In exploring these “small giants,” Bo Burlingham shows how every company can benefit by questioning the usual definitions of business success. https://boburlingham.com/other-books/ (more)

operating outside traditional/big institutions - Micro-SaaS/Micro-ISV, Micropreneur, One-Man Show, Two-Pizza Company, SmallCo, Neo-Victorian, Arts And Crafts, Co-op, SmallWorld/SmallWeb, SlowWorld (?), Bespoke, Boutique, Small Batch ((2009-07-31) Linderman Boutique Biz Rename), Situated Software, Life-Style Company, NanoCorp, Auteur Theory, Grunt-Fund, Co-op, Bootstrapping (more)

Erik Hoel: Why do most popular science books suck? In the science section of the average bookstore rests a bunch of overhyped and uninteresting books. There are a slim number that are original and interesting—they’re there, but they’re rare (more)

Erin Sommers: Who’s Afraid of the Internet Novel? Why would anyone want to remember last week’s internet,” writes Calvin Kasulke in his 2021 novel, Several People Are Typing. “We don’t, but we want to remember the fifteen-years-ago internet and that was last week’s internet, once. Humorously, this thought is delivered by a character named Gerald, who has been sucked into his computer’s Slack app. (more)

Katie Parrott: I Started Talking to My Computer Instead of Typing. It Changed How I Think. I didn’t notice how much typing slowed my thoughts down until I realized I’d stopped. (more)

Gwern: Nenex: A Neural Personal Wiki Idea. If Vannevar Bush or Douglas Engelbart were designing a ‘neural wiki’ from the ground up to be a ‘tool for thought’, taking GPT-4-level LLMs for granted, what would that look like? (more)

Bruce Sterling: The Big Idea. ...my latest short story collection, “Robot Artists and Black Swans,” which is American science fiction re-imagined as Italian fantascienza. (more)

Anson Yu: sparkly people and how to find them. I am constantly delighted by the people I get to spend time around. I attribute it to judgement exercised over time (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Revenge of the Dilettantes. (more)

Category Pirates: 7 steps to start writing your $100 book. Every year, millions of people say they want to write a book. Almost none of them do. (more)

CategoryPirates: 10 AI prompts to create a powerful and compelling POV. Most founders, creators, and entrepreneurs think they have a Point of View (POV). (more)

Itay Dreyfus: What comes after Roam's renaissance? A new year has come. It's 2024 and note-taking isn’t cool anymore. The once-blooming space has had its moment. Moreover, the almighty Roam Research isn’t the only king anymore. The hype is officially over. (more)

Richard Feynman process of learning and problem solving and innovation (cf Grand Challenge, Working Question) (more)

Ted Gioia: My 12 Favorite Problems. I’ve benefited in my own life by asking the same questions over and over—for a period of decades. (more)

Mike Caulfield is currently (2014) the director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver. (Before that he was employed by Keene State College as an instructional designer, and by MIT as director of community outreach for the Open Course Ware Consortium. (more)

media literacy process championed by Mike Caulfield https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/

Jean-François Lyotard (/liːoʊˈtɑːr/; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998)[5] was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. Lyotard was a key personality in contemporary continental philosophy and authored 26 books and many articles.[6] He was a director of the International College of Philosophy founded by Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, Jean-Pierre Faye, and Dominique Lecourt.[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lyotard

Post-Rationalism, Post-Rationalist. (more)

David Chapman: What they don’t teach you at STEM school. What they do teach you at STEM school is how to think and act within rational systems. What they mostly don’t teach you is how to evaluate, choose, combine, modify, discover, or create systems. (systems thinking) (more)

Dominic Mckenzie Cummings (born 25 November 1971) is a British political strategist who served as Chief Adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 24 July 2019 until he resigned on 13 November 2020.[1] From 2007 to 2014, he was a special adviser to Michael Gove, including the time that Gove served as Education Secretary, leaving when Gove was made Chief Whip in a cabinet reshuffle. From 2015 to 2016, Cummings was director of Vote Leave, an organisation which successfully executed the 2016 referendum campaign for Britain's exit (brexit) from the European Union. After Johnson was appointed prime minister in July 2019, Cummings was appointed as Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister. Cummings had a contentious relationship with Chancellor Sajid Javid which culminated in Javid's resignation in February 2020 after he refused to comply with Cummings's request to dismiss his special advisers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Cummings