process of Design-ing your Life Style (more)

Learning Computer Programming (more)

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Podcast: Tiago Forte on Productivity, Provocation, and Layering Knowledge. For Part 2, we take a deeper look at how he structures his notes and get a peek into “Building a Second Brain,” Tiago’s five-week boot camp for personal knowledge management. Following 2017-05-22-FortesApproachToProductivity. (more)

How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner. The problem is that all new printers print nearly invisibly yellow dots that track down exactly when and where documents, any document, is printed. Because the NSA logs all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to match up precisely who printed the document (more)

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Global Business Network (GBN) was a leading consulting firm that specialized in helping organizations to adapt and grow in an increasingly uncertain and volatile world... GBN was founded in Berkeley, California, in 1987 by a group of entrepreneurs including Peter Schwartz, Jay Ogilvy, Stewart Brand, Napier Collyns, and Lawrence Wilkinson. The company grew to include a core group of "practice members", and over a hundred individual network members (or "RPs") from a range of different fields, such as Wired editor Kevin Kelly,[4] social media expert Clay Shirky, anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, economist Aidan Eyakuze, musician Brian Eno, biotechnologist Rob Carlson, and China scholar Orville Schell... After its acquisition by Monitor in 2000, GBN soon stopped offering this membership service, concentrating instead on scenario-based consulting and training... GBN ceased to be an active entity following the acquisition of the Monitor Group by Deloitte in January 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Business_Network (more)

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 by Jennifer Pahlka to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design. According to its website, the organization works with residents and governments in solving community problems.[2] The organization began by enlisting technology and design professionals to work with city governments in the United States in order to build open-source applications and promote openness, participation, and efficiency in government, and has grown into a cross-sector network of practitioners of civic innovation and a platform for "civic hacking". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_for_America

Former Content Director, Code for America. Dan Hon joined Code for America in October 2014 (more)

Dan Hon sees Patreon as A future of working (more)

Venkatesh Rao on A Most Useful Misunderstanding (more)

Patreon is an Internet-based (Patronage) Platform that allows content creators to build their own subscription content service. It is popular among YouTube content creators, webcomic artists, writers, podcasters, musicians, and other categories of creators who post regularly online.[1] It allows artists to receive funding directly from their fans, or patrons, on a recurring basis or per work of art.[2] The company, started by musician Jack Conte[3] and developer Sam Yam[3] in 2013, is based in San Francisco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patreon

Gartner, Inc. is an American research and advisory firm providing information technology related insight for IT and other business leaders located across the world. Its headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as Gartner Group, Inc until 2000, when it was then changed to Gartner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner (more)

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Pinboard has acquired Delicious (more)

Chris Dixon: Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design (more)

Teresa Torres: Managing Product Teams for Success - Product Talk (more)

Outcome Health ditches BootStraps, raises $500M at $5B valuation (more)

ZenHabits dude (more)

Leo Babauta is switching to a life of No Goals. The idea of having concrete, achievable goals seem to be deeply ingrained in our culture. I know I lived with goals for many years, and in fact a big part of my writings here on Zen Habits are about how to set and achieve goals. (Goal Setting) These days, however, I live without goals, for the most part. It’s absolutely liberating, and contrary to what you might have been taught, it absolutely doesn’t mean you stop achieving things. It means you stop letting yourself be limited by goals. (more)