Luke Muehlhauser: A beginner’s guide to modern art jazz. (Highlights below are focused on his 'top' choices, so I can work my way through them; also incl some non-'top' choices that I wanted linked.) There are few guides to modern art jazz that are aimed at the beginner. The best guide I know of is by Piero Scaruffi, who rightly complains... (more)

Possible Personal Finance actions (more)

Free ThinBook/Whitepaper on Feature Toggles, by John Kodumal founder of LaunchDarkly (feature mgmt app https://learn.launchdarkly.com/effective-feature-management/ (more)

book by Joseph Tainter (more)

David Warren Brubeck (/ˈbruːbɛk/; December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brubeck

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer.[1] Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop,[2] a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. Parker was an extremely fast virtuoso and introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Primarily a player of the alto saxophone, Parker's tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer.[2] He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge[3] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, scat singing, bent horn, pouched cheeks, and light-hearted personality provided one of bebop's most prominent symbols.[2] In the 1940s, Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz.[4] He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan,[5] and Chuck Mangione,[6] and balladeer Johnny Hartman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis

spec for Basic School Skills (more)

A practice in the Open Hyperdocument System of making all documents Paragraph Addressable by inserting A-NAMEs at that level. (more)

tank-wiki-based digital garden: https://tank.peermore.com/tanks/cdent/index (more)

similar to an Amusement Park, but with more of an integrative Narrative (more)

You Can't be a Citizen of a ThemePark. from Cory Doctorow: (2005-10-11) Doctorow Themepunks

aka Chief Product Officer, Product Leader, Head of Product (more)

Packaging A YouTube Transcript for reading/highlighting (for my digital garden): (more)

Note-taking app with an orientation toward semi-structured data/document-oriented rather than running-freetext: "Write information, not documents." https://www.tana.inc/ (more)

Robin Sloan character (more)

anti-pattern of treating your product team like a feature team, that mindlessly executes others' (stakeholder, HiPPO) ideas, and is judged on output (aka meeting deadline) rather than outcomes. Corrected approach: Agile Product Development.

JPod is a novel by Douglas Coupland published by Random House of Canada in 2006. Set in 2005, the book explores the strange and unconventional everyday life of the main character, Ethan Jarlewski, and his team of video game programmers whose last names all begin with the letter 'J'. JPod was adapted into a CBC television series of the same name co-created by Douglas Coupland and Michael MacLennan. It premiered on January 8, 2008, and ran until its cancellation on March 7, 2008, leaving the series with a permanent cliffhanger. The first thirteen episodes of the series aired in the United States on The CW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPod (more)

In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input.[1][2] Nonlinear problems are of interest to engineers, biologists,[3][4][5] physicists,[6][7] mathematicians, and many other scientists because most systems are inherently nonlinear in nature.[8] Nonlinear dynamical systems, describing changes in variables over time, may appear chaotic, unpredictable, or counterintuitive, contrasting with much simpler linear systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system (more)