life-coaching? https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/about

a Minimal Compact? (more)

like a Personal Server/hosted server, but made up of mesh of functions running in various parts of the cloud. cf serverless (more)

It seems like Gmail is Blocking Some FluxGarden Registration Emails - got a few bounces today with (more)

SendGrid's free plan used to last forever (at a low volume), but they've now capped it at 6mo.

Artificial Intelligence (more)

see William Ross Ashby

W. Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 in London – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby. His two books, Design for a Brain and An Introduction to Cybernetics, were landmark works. They introduced exact and logical thinking into the brand new discipline of cybernetics and were highly influential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Ross_Ashby (more)

John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence.[1] He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)

Byron Kathleen Mitchell, (née Reid; born December 6, 1942) better known as Byron Katie, is an American speaker and author who teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work of Byron Katie" or simply as "The Work". She is the founder of Byron Katie International, an organization that includes the School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California. Time Magazine describes her as "a spiritual innovator for the 21st century." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie (more)

author of How to Take Smart Notes

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers, by Sonke Ahrens ISBN:1542866502. Book on the Zettelkasten method. (more)

Kevin Carson: Deep Trust, Shallow Trust, and Phyles. A recent exchange between Venessa Miemis inspired me to add a section to the chapter on phyles and other networked economic platforms, in my Desktop Regulatory State manuscript: The Value of the Phyle as Opposed to Other Models of Collaboration. (more)

Venessa Miemis: How Will We Collaborate if We Can’t Trust Each Other? A few years ago, I had a big snowcrash moment about the power of networks and the web, envisioning the amazing potential that could be unleashed if we could just build our networks and weave them all together. (more)

very small schools variant

aka UnitedStates, US, United States Of America (more)

Urban-planning model of walkable urban village. The 15-minute city (FMC or 15mC)[1][2] is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by 15-minute's walking or bicycle riding from any point in the city.[3] This approach aims to reduce car dependency, promote healthy and sustainable living, and improve wellbeing and quality of life for city dwellers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city cf neighborhood, Community Of 7000... at population density of 21k/sqmi, a 1-mile city would have 21k people. (more)

Getting To Trust: Better Swift Than Deep. Venessa Miemis is trying to get a group of ‘change agents’ to collaborate, and is finding it hard going. ()(2012-01-08) Miemis How Will We Collaborate If We Can't Trust Each Other) (more)

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (French: [ʒak fabʁis vale]; born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vall%C3%A9e (more)

now Venessa Hall (married Jordan Hall); Movement Strategist at Qualia Life Sciences (was Neurohacker Collective since 2015 (more)