Skill Issue is a slang expression used in video game trash-talk, usually as a soft way of telling the opponent they are bad at the game. Starting in 2020, the expression spawned a series of reaction memes and GIF captions with the phrase also seeing ironic use as a comment on situations when skill has nothing to do with one's loss. Sounds Like a Skill Issue and Simply a Difference in Skill are common variations of the phrase. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/skill-issue-simply-a-difference-in-skill (more)

Steph Ango: Calmness is a superpower. The cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has two simple words of advice for intergalactic travelers: Don’t panic. (more)

Child sexual abuse (CSE) in the United Kingdom (UK) includes the proliferation of indecent images, online exploitation, transnational abuse, and contact abuse. Efforts to prevent child sexual abuse include providing information to children and parents, and disrupting abusive situations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_the_United_Kingdom (more)

aka Islamic

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is an American philanthropic advising and funding organization. Its current CEO is Alexander Berger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_Giving

Paul Christiano is an American researcher in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), with a specific focus on AI alignment, which is the subfield of AI safety research that aims to steer AI systems toward human interests.[1] He is the founder and executive director of the Alignment Research Center (ARC), a nonprofit that develops methods for finding mechanistic explanations of neural network behavior,[2] and serves on the OpenAI Foundation's board and its Safety and Security Committee.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Christiano

Karl Schroeder: How to Save the Metaverse (and Why). If you disregard all the people who ‘touched’ the Metaverse in some abstract, transactional way, who’s actually been there lately? I really want to know—because the vision of the Metaverse is as an alternate universe, a virtual playground of unlimited extent, as imagined in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, Ernest Cline’s Ready, Player One; and in William Gibson’s Cyberspace, the Matrix or (going back to the dark ages of 1982 and Tron, “the Grid”). (more)

Discussion Forum software. Discourse is an open source Internet forum software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.[2] Discourse received funding from First Round Capital and Greylock.[3] From a usability perspective, Discourse breaks with existing forum software by including features recently popularized by large social networks, such as infinite scrolling, live updates, expanding links, and drag and drop attachments.[4] However, the stated goals of the project are social rather than technical, to improve online discussion quality through improved forum software. The application is written in JavaScript and Ruby On Rails,[5] and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. PostgreSQL is the supported database management system. It also uses EmberJs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software) (more)

see Buddhism

article by E F Schumacher (more)

Paul Ford: Forget Growth. Optimize for Resilience. I cofounded a software company, like a doofus, so I attend a weekly analytics meeting. My cofounder runs “product”; I'm loosely in charge of “the funnel (growth team)... it's not really a funnel, more of a juicer.” (more)

a multi-layer-iterative Product Management process of Thinking in Bets (more)

A reminder that orientation (model-making) isn't something you do just when you hit that part of the OODA loop. Your worldview is always shaping your perceptions (Observation, Reflexivity), so you need to (a) be conscious of that process (eg recognize that even what you think is "objective data" isn't quite/really), (b) be good at pattern-matching, and (c) be open to data that breaks your mental model. Is this expertise, taste, or both?

high agency - a personality trait (more)

aka bias for action

not "over"-thinking? high agency?

Ian Alexander: Book Review: Donald Schon - The Reflective Practitioner. Readers of my reviews will know that I have been interested for some years in the dialogue between action (do something) and reflection, discussed admirably by John Heron and Peter Reason, and put into practice in their Co-operative Inquiry method. Donald Schön is one of the seemingly few people to have written about reflection and its role in professional life; it is a tricky subject, as it lies between the domains of academia and industry, and must be both theoretically accurate and practically useful to succeed fully. (reflective thinker) (more)

reflective thinker; book by Donald Schon

Similar to MetaCognition (but with more Iteration, Deliberate Practice) and Critical Thinking (but with more Self Awareness). (more)

In epistemology, and more specifically, the sociology of knowledge, reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect, especially as embedded in human belief structures. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a relationship in which neither can be assigned as causes or effects. (more)