Sean Ellis: The Startup Pyramid. Startups require a solid foundation of product/market fit before progressing up the pyramid and scaling the business. (more)

Goal: run the same Python-based WikiEngine on my IBook and my Sharp Zaurus, then set up some Data Synch routines... (more)

PDA I bought on EBay in mid 2005 (more)

Note-Taking app. Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. https://logseq.com/ (more)

Tantra (/ˈtæntrə/; Sanskrit: तन्त्र, lit. 'loom, weave, warp') are the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards.[1] The term tantra, in the Indian traditions, also means any systematic broadly applicable "text, theory, system, method, instrument, technique or practice".[2][3] A key feature of these traditions is the use of mantras, and thus they are commonly referred to as Mantramārga ("Path of Mantra") in Hinduism or Mantrayāna ("Mantra Vehicle") and Guhyamantra ("Secret Mantra") in Buddhism.[4][5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra (more)

Threaded Discussion in Twitter. Sometimes also used for broadcast TweetStorm. (more)

My Pixel 2 XL has been increasingly flaky with voice and SMS/MMS, so it seemed like time to give up. (more)

SMS texting works ok, but MMS, either for a group text, or for a single-person text with a photo attachment, is often unreliable. I'm pretty sure this has always been true, but can't find a record of it before today. (On t-mobile with Pixel 2 XL.) (more)

ADD: A Different Perception ISBN:1887424148 by Thom Hartmann. Hartmann takes a positive view of ADD, stressing the successes that those with ADD can have using their talents and skills rather than dwelling on their difficulties. His work marks the first time an author characterized ADD as something other than a disease. (more)

see ADD: Different Perception and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_versus_farmer_hypothesis

Logseq raises $4.1M to Accelerate Growth of the New World Knowledge Graph. The financing was led by Patrick Collison, Stripe CEO, Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub, Tobias Lütke, Founder of Shopify, Sriram Krishnan, GP at A16Z, along with Craft Ventures, Matrix Partners, Day One Ventures, Charlie Cheever, Founder of Expo/Quora, and Dave Winer. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 5/5/22: A Lack of Care. I haven’t written an additional China post because my sources have not turned up much additional information, and the situation does not seem to have dramatically changed (more)

aka software robot, e.g. chatbot

Chris Hayes 2012 book: if you have this vision of an institutional arrangement with huge rewards for performance, it's trickier than it looks to design a system that doesn't also have big rewards for cheating (more)

A human-scaled database as an extension of your brain. Unigraph provides an alternative approach - “what if we create software or digital spaces that treats users as holistic beings?” We believe that the human experience is irreducible: we cannot take anything we created away from the original context and expect it not to lose some of its meaning. A contact is not just some phone numbers and email addresses - it’s an experience with every message and email you exchange, every meeting you have and related meeting logs, every Tweet and LinkedIn updates they sent, and every time you mention them in your notes. (associative PIM) (more)

Amazon Removes Purchase Feature From Kindle for Android. Amazon has removed purchases from the Kindle app for Android devices in accordance with a new Google Play App Store policy that requires developers to implement Google's billing system.

Robin Sloan: Overworld Week 6, mechanic or bust. Regarding the actual mechanism of this so-called game I am making, my initial strategy was basically to ignore it. Seriously: this was a considered strategy! The main attraction of Perils of the Overworld, I figured, would be the writing, and the basic push-pull of making choices—the “what next?” of a Choose Your Own Adventure book—would be mechanism enough to keep the player tapping. I still think there’s a kernel of truth there—“what next?” is one of the most powerful forces in the universe—but the no-strategy strategy did not work. Here’s why (more)

Robin Sloan: The master tapes. Well, I am enjoying the browser extension called Fraidycat, which presents a lovely, anarchic opportunity: follow all the people you like, no matter what platform they’re using, without having accounts on those platforms. Basically, it’s an “RSS… or whatever” reader. (more)

Robin Sloan: OverWorld Week 3, oblique. Here’s one of my key references for the look of the map in Perils of the Overworld—and the game’s whole visual approach, really: (more)

Robin Sloan: Bad hosts, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the overlay network. Concluding my notes on Web3, I wrote that Ethereum should inspire anyone interested in the future(s) of the internet, because it proves, powerfully, that new protocols are still possible. (see (2021-11-11) Sloan Notes On Web3) (more)