growing up in the 1970s, it was the NYC jazz radio station - it was the more "contemporary" station, vs the Newark/NPR station WBGO. (more)

play dat funky music, white boys (more)

when kids aren't going through Educating Kids (more)

A place where kids do Self Directed Learning/UnSchooling. aka SDLC (more)

cf AutoDidact, Self Organized (more)

Michael Strong: The least well understood aspect of my work as an educator is my deliberate effort to create adolescent communities in which the teens themselves develop standards of mutual respect that transcend the shallow standards that currently prevail in most schools, including materialism (Consumerism) and appearance. (more)

cf Architecture School, Work Community, design studio (more)

In sports and video games, a pick-up game (also known as a scratch game or PUG) is a game that has been spontaneously started by a group of players. Players are generally invited to show up beforehand, but unlike exhibition games, there is no sense of obligation or commitment to play. Pick-up games usually lack officials and referees, which makes them more disorganized and less structured than regular games. Without formal rules and regulations, pick-up games are often played with a less rigid set of game rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-up_game

course/program where attendees all a lot of Writing and Peer Review of each other's writing to improve (more)

Lisp, Pattern Language guru - http://www.dreamsongs.com/ (more)

1-week Summer Camp http://www.tinkeringschool.com/ (more)

Marc Prensky (born March 15, 1946, New York City, United States) is an American writer and speaker on education. He is best known as the creator of the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrant"[1] which he described in a 2001 article in On the Horizon... He is the author of seven books: Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill 2001), Don't Bother Me Mom – I'm Learning (Paragon House 2006), Teaching Digital Natives (Corwin Press 2010), From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning (2012), Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom (2012), The World Needs a New Curriculum (The Global Future Education Foundation, 2014), Education To Better Their World: Unleashing the power of 21st century kids (Teachers College Press, 2016) and 100 essays on learning and education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Prensky

A scrip (or chit in India) is any substitute for legal tender. It is often a form of credit. Scrips have been created for payment of employees under truck systems, and for use in local commerce at times when regular currency was unavailable, for example in remote coal towns, military bases, ships on long voyages, or occupied countries in wartime. Besides company scrip, other forms of scrip include land scrip, vouchers, token coins such as subway tokens, IOUs, arcade tokens and tickets, and points on some credit cards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip (airline reward miles?) (cf carnival cash, loyalty program, LETS)

Martin Cagan: Skateboards vs. Cars Revisited | Silicon Valley Product Group (more)

novel by Umberto Eco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose (more)

Ash Maurya: Traction is the Goal. Everything Else is Distraction. (more)

Ash Maurya: Problem/Solution Fit (not Product/Market Fit) is the first significant milestone of a startup. Getting to product/market fit (the inflection point in the hockey stick curve) takes roughly two years, and 80% of products never find it. (more)

Ash Maurya: The Customer Factory Manifesto. 1. All Businesses Share a Common Universal Goal: To make happy customers. (more)

An internal Yahoo memo by Brad Garlinghouse was leaked to the Wall St Journal. This is Yahoo's dirty laundry spread all over the world for everyone to see, and it voices a frustration that suggests CEO Terry Semel's chief lieutenants are restless and frustrated... "I've heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular. I hate peanut butter. We all should." (this is known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto.) (BigCo messiness.) (more)

Complaint about Yahoo's business strategy (lack of focus) by Brad Garlinghouse: (2006-11-19) Yahoo Garlinghouse Shakeup Memo (more)