Elena Burger: Minimum Viable Participation in Crypto: Games, Costs, & Accessibility. When people talk about the recent past and envision the distant future of crypto, conversation always comes back to the cycle of wealth creation and redistribution. (more)

Forkast: What Is Polkadot And Why Is It One Of The Hottest Blockchains Right Now? In a blockchain ecosystem dominated by Bitcoin and Ethereum, Polkadot — which launched only a year ago last May — is already establishing itself as a next-generation blockchain. (more)

Nat Eliason: Solana's Fast & Cheap Answer to Ethereum's Gas Wars - DeFriday #13. When I started writing DeFriday, you could do most Ethereum transactions for under $10-$20. (more)

I'm Jon Lebkowsky, co-host at the Plutopia News Network, also co-host of the Inkwell.vue forum here on the WELL. This is our 25th annual State of the World conversation. (more)

The Wagner Group (Russian: Группа Вагнера, tr. Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner[8] (Russian: ЧВК «Вагнер», tr. ChVK «Vagner»[62]) and as the Africa Corps (Russian: Африканский корпус, tr. Afrikanskiy korpus) in Africa,[63] is a Russian state-funded[64] private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin.[8][65] The Wagner Group has used infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces.[66] Evidence suggests that Wagner has been used as a proxy by the Russian government, allowing it to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad, and hiding the true casualties of Russia's foreign interventions.[66][67] The group emerged during the Donbas War in Ukraine, where it helped pro-Russian forces from 2014 to 2015.[8] Wagner played a significant role in the subsequent full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine,[68] for which it recruited Russian prison inmates for frontline combat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

aka LLM

Book by Michael Schrage ASIN:B008HRM9X4. This brief book explains how a simple question—who do you want your customers to become?—transforms strategic, marketing, and innovation insights. This question—what I’ll call “The Ask”—successfully provokes managers and entrepreneurs into reimagining, redefining, and redesigning their customers’ future. (more)

McDonald's, a very BigCo

Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925 – June 28, 2006) was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization. In 1983, he proposed a definition for corporate purpose: "Rather than merely making money, it is to create and keep a customer"... In 1959 he joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School. Later that year, he became well known after publishing Marketing Myopia in Harvard Business Review where he asks "What business are you in?", a phrase that demands one account for the significance of the job one does (corporate mission more than job to be done).... He was the author of The Marketing Imagination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Levitt

Marketing Myopia is a term that refers to the tendency of businesses to define their market so narrowly as to miss opportunities for growth. It suggests that businesses will do better in the long-term if they concentrate on improving the utility of a product or good, rather than just trying to sell their products... Ted Levitt postulated that a myopic culture would lead a business to fall due to the short-sighted mindset and the illusion that a firm is in a so-called "growth industry." Such beliefs lead to complacency and losing sight of what customers want. It is said that myopic managers focus more on the original product and refuse to adapt to the needs and wants of the consumer. To continue growing, companies must understand and act on their customers’ needs and desires instead of banking on the presumptive longevity of their products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_myopia

Living; part of a Complex System (more)

business growth which isn't "accelerated" by OPM or high marketing spending

Rudy Rucker term: seek ye the gnarl!... Rucker believes gnarliness to be the defining quality of life, the universe and everything -- even human thought. (more)

Greg Wilson: Afraid of Change. A few months ago, I had the misfortune to take part in an awful one-day workshop based on an equally awful book called Radical Candor. (more)

Matt Mandel (USV): Making Energy Programmable... We’ve previously written about the storage gap... The push to build out storage capacity is just one example of how the edges of the grid are manipulating energy in increasingly complex ways. (Smart Grid) (more)

Bryan Lunduke: Major Open Source Projects: How much money do they actually make? I collected revenue details for 17 major open source foundations (more)

Spreadsheet in a Wiki, written by Dan Bricklin (more)

payment system

James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.[1][2] He served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1991–1992. He studied the sociology of education and public policy, and was one of the earliest users of the term social capital.[3] He may be considered one of the original neoconservatives in sociology.[4] His work Foundations of Social Theory (1990) influenced countless sociological theories, and his works The Adolescent Society (1961) and "Coleman Report" (Equality of Educational Opportunity, 1966) were two of the most cited books in educational sociology. The landmark Coleman Report helped transform educational theory, reshape national education policies, and it influenced public and scholarly opinion regarding the role of schooling in determining equality and productivity in the United States... In 1966, James Coleman presented a report to the U.S Congress where he presented his findings from his research where he spoke of how to reach a racial balance in public schools. He shared his most controversial findings that poor black children did better academically when integrated into middle-class schools... Coleman's publication of the "Coleman Report" included greatly influential findings that pioneered aspects of the desegregation of American public schools. His theories of integration also contributed. He also raised the issue of narrowing the educational gap between those who had money and others. By creating a well-rounded student body, a student's educational experience can be greatly benefited.[3] With Colemans many shocking findings and conclusions that were drawn from his research, many of the people who were interested and trusted his research including Coleman himself were reluctant to follow them as time passed. Colemans later studies suggested that his methods were failing due to “white flight” from areas in which students were bussed. This caused his intentions to reach racial balance to fail and not bring forth the positive change he had intended when starting the study. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Samuel_Coleman

QuietCare is used in multiple settings - there are lots of different places that Senior-s live. (more)