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→ Abuse is killing the social web, and hence it isn’t peripheral to internet business models — it’s central Oct 16, 2015 highlights Abuse is killing the social web, and hence it isn’t peripheral to internet business models — it’s central. It has significant chilling effects: given a tipping point, people will simply stop using a network, and walk away…and that appears to be what’s happening with Twitter. Abuse is just as central to tech that connects people as selling beef that isn’t contaminated with salmonella is to an industry that feeds people. — Umair Haque’s treatise on abuse as the insidious vector behind Twitter’s decline.

→ Sam Altman on the launch of Y Combinator’s new research lab. Oct 15, 2015 highlights We're doing this because funding and the environment for fundamental research keep getting worse. The government cuts science funding every year, academia is badly broken in many ways, and corporate research is not open enough, or too directed toward what that company needs. —

Sam Altman on the launch of Y Combinator’s new research lab.

This is noble but scary. It might provide an alternative to explicitly for-profit research in the face of decline in support for public research, but it is privatizing in its own right. This sort of effort might permit such decline even further…

→ Treat your blog as your drafts folder Oct 15, 2015 highlights Treat your blog as your drafts folder. — Jeremy Keith

I AM NOT A FOUNDER Oct 14, 2015

Courses Oct 14, 2015 science & learning

League of Intrapreneurs Oct 13, 2015 social

No Citizenship For Convicted Terrorists Oct 13, 2015

SOLVE@MIT: A participant’s perspective Oct 12, 2015 global & systems

On October 5, 2015, MIT launched a movement — but the world has a lot of movements. What makes this one different? Jeffrey Sachs addresses the ▵ →

Google’s ‘Don’t be evil’ creed disappears as company morphs into Alphabet Oct 6, 2015

→ Our reaction to these atrocities can cloud our judgment, biasing us in favor of war Oct 5, 2015 design & highlights Our reaction to these atrocities can cloud our judgment, biasing us in favor of war. The benefits of war—including avenging those who have suffered—are made vivid, but the costs of war remain abstract and statistical. We see this same bias reflected in our criminal-justice system. The outrage that comes from empathy drives some of our most powerful punitive desires. — http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/the-violence-of-empathy/407155/

How Empathy Makes People More Violent - The Atlantic Oct 4, 2015 design & science

→ In his book Healing Night (2006), the sleep psychologist Rubin Naiman tells of a game he played with his mother as a child Oct 3, 2015 highlights In his book Healing Night (2006), the sleep psychologist Rubin Naiman tells of a game he played with his mother as a child. She would ask: ‘What is the best thing in the world?’ Little Rubin would shout out guesses (Toys! Cartoons! Ice‑cream!) until she revealed the correct answer: ‘Night.’ Naiman’s mother had spent four years in a Nazi concentration camp; during that hellish sojourn, she had learned to cherish the hours of darkness as a promised land. ‘Night brought sleep,’ he writes, ‘a vital daily measure of peace. Sleep, in turn, served as a natural bridge to dreams. And dreaming opened a mysterious portal to a more malleable and compassionate reality.’ — Via Aeon.co.

Does sleep-learning really work? Oct 2, 2015 learning — Kenneth Miller — Aeon ▵ →

Purpose’s gender-neutral bathroom signs Sep 29, 2015 design

→ When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe Sep 26, 2015 systems & design & highlights When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir as quoted by Ecoliteracy.

→ Designers … seek to choose rather than predict the future Sep 25, 2015 systems & design & futures & highlights Designers … seek to choose rather than predict the future. — Jamshid Gharajedaghi, Systems Thinking.

ReSchool 2015 Keynote: Dr David Helfand on Transforming the Future of Education Sep 24, 2015 education & futures

I Don’t Own, I Uber — What’s The Future of Work? Sep 4, 2015

David Marcus - Today we’re beginning to test a new service… | Facebook Sep 3, 2015

Understanding “New Power” Aug 31, 2015