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Matthew McDowell-Sweet retweeted
What type of thing is @subsetnetwork? It's a tool for third places. Something that deepens and enriches both sync and async P2P interactions.
Matthew McDowell-Sweet retweeted
Part One and Async Week make up two thirds of YakCon, our week-long interactive tinkering session. Tomorrow's Part Two (1600-2000 UTC) concludes the event.
Matthew McDowell-Sweet retweeted
Next week, the Yak Collective is doing the first YakCon: an interactive tinkering session. Two virtual meetups on consecutive Sundays (the 8th and 15th) book-ending a week of tinkering and exploration on our various activity tracks.
Matthew McDowell-Sweet retweeted
I think this book could get more attention. The thesis is that (1) big tech economy is based on advertisement revenue, but (2) advertisements do not work that much, so (3) value of advertisements is misrepresented and the ecosystem is at risk of a bubble-like collapse.
Matthew McDowell-Sweet retweeted
The thing with reading Drucker is you get lulled by a few a few ordinary pages and then suddenly he lights up the next fifty years of the agile revolution.
Some clips from a section on how management was changing in 1970(!): (1/n)
Matthew McDowell-Sweet retweeted
Remembering, thanks to @thingsonshelves, the @Jer_Hy_ Theory of Maximum Work: "Work is all of the things you need to do in order to do the things you want to do."
Matthew McDowell-Sweet retweeted
scholar is a trap and siphons off the energy needed to build the systems of collective knowledge organization needed to truly challenge the traditional prestige journal system.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet retweeted
Deep Time, if pondered, produces a profound sense of temporal vertigo unlike anything. When we speak of events 20, 30, 40.000 years ago, the numbers scarcely register.
A man, gazing out from a hill 40kya, would have still *30.000 years* to go before even the end of the Ice Age.
Matthew McDowell-Sweet retweeted
We witnessed an attempted coup this week. A prime minister who has very obviously broken the law on many occasions and who holds the people of this country in contempt sought to stay in power aided and abetted by his party and the police. A thread….
