Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

Opioids are substances that act on opioid receptors to produce morphine-like effects.[2] Medically they are primarily used for pain relief, including anesthesia.[3] Other medical uses include suppression of diarrhea, replacement therapy for opioid use disorder, reversing opioid overdose, suppressing cough,[3] as well as for executions in the United States. Opioids include opiates, an older term that refers to such drugs derived from opium, including morphine itself.[17] Other opioids are semi-synthetic and synthetic drugs such as hydrocodone, oxycodone and fentanyl; antagonist drugs such as naloxone; and endogenous peptides such as the endorphins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid (more)

DigitalGarden for TeamWork (more)

Concept for an IssueTracker working across a loosely-formed group of people, each of whom is in multiple such groups, so a single unitary SaaS would be in inappropriate. cf Graph-driven SoftwareForge, (2013-07-15) Taco Task Hub, Object Browser, Group-forming, Software Bootstrap As DAO, microformat, Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts, open source, portfolio life... (more)

Graph-Driven SoftwareForge: built on a pattern of graphs (everything is a graph).... (more)

Processing of passport applications is backing up at the State Department. It's very frustrating. (more)

Revisiting old AppWiki and WikiProxy ideas, because pondering (more)

Ivo Velitchkov presentation on Personal Knowledge Graphs (backlinked PKM) (more)

Simon Willison: Training nanoGPT entirely on content from my blog. This is a follow-up to Running nanoGPT on a MacBook M2 to generate terrible Shakespeare. I used nanoGPT by Andrej Karpathy to train a GPT model entirely against content from my blog! (more)

nanoGPT is a rewrite of minGPT that prioritizes teeth over education. Still under active development, but currently the file train.py reproduces GPT-2 (124M) on OpenWebText, running on a single 8XA100 40GB node in about 4 days of training https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT (built in Python) (more)

HTML-focused thin JavaScript framework from Postlight folks. https://postlight.github.io/trimmings/ (2019-08-29) Postlight Back To Html Introducing Trimmings (more)

What CollaborationWare have I used? (more)

Cory Doctorow: How monopoly enshittified Amazon. In Bezos's original plan, the company called "Amazon" was called "Relentless," due to its ambition to be "Earth's most customer-centric company." Today, Amazon is an enshittified endless scroll of paid results, where winning depends on ad budgets, not quality. (enshittification) (more)

Product Camp Chicago again (more)

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a type of globally unique identifier that enables an entity to be identified in a manner that is verifiable, persistent (as long as the DID controller desires), and does not require the use of a centralized registry.[1] DIDs enable a new model of decentralized digital identity that is often referred to as self-sovereign identity or decentralized identity.[2] They are an important component of decentralized web applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier (more)

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is an approach to digital identity that gives individuals control over the information they use to prove who they are to websites, services, and applications across the web. Without SSI, individuals with persistent accounts (identities) across the internet must rely on a number of large identity providers, such as Facebook (Facebook Connect) and Google (Google Sign-In), that have control of the information associated with their identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity

John Seddon is a British occupational psychologist and author, specialising in change in the service industry. He is the managing director of Vanguard, a consultancy company he formed in 1985 and the inventor of 'The Vanguard Method'. Vanguard currently operates in eleven countries. Seddon is a visiting professor at Buckingham University Business School. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seddon (more)

product management guru

Itamar Gilad: Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management? The product-sphere is boiling-over over an interview with Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of AirBnB, in which he said that the company no longer has a product management function - PM has been merged with product-marketing-management (PMM). (more)

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