Starred in Pocket:
https://notion.so/blog/andy-matuschak

Andy is a software engineer, designer, and researcher working on technologies that expand what people can think and do. In past lives he helped build iOS at Apple and led R&D at Khan Academy. Now as an independent researcher, his methods bridge the gap between academia and Silicon Valley.

Andy Matuschak on physically-informed digital interface design

Andy Matuschak on physically-informed digital interface design

Notion

Starred in Pocket:
https://wintercg.org/

This community group aims to provide a space for JS runtimes to collaborate on API interoperability. We focus on documenting and improving interoperability of web platform APIs across runtimes (especially non-Browser ones).

WinterCG

The Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group aims to provide a space for JS runtimes to collaborate on API interoperability.

wintercg.org

Starred in Pocket:
https://speed.cloudflare.com

Test your Internet connection. Check your network speed, latency, and jitter with our Internet speed test. Powered by Cloudflare’s global edge network.

Internet Speed Test - Measure Network Performance | Cloudflare

Test your Internet connection. Check your network performance with our Internet speed test. Powered by Cloudflare's global edge network.

speed.cloudflare.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.notboring.co/p/primer-the-ambitious-home-for-ambitious

Welcome to the 931 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since Monday! If you haven’t subscribed, join 117,371 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: Happy Thursday!

Primer: The Ambitious Home for Ambitious Kids

Announcing a $15M Series A, Microschools, and Expert-Led Clubs

www.notboring.co

Starred in Pocket:
https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5ib9cpqa/release/1

Although the idea of learning engineering dates back to the 1960s, there has been an explosion of interest in the area in the last decade.

Learning Engineering: A View on Where the Field Is at, Where It’s Going, and the Research Needed · Volume 3, Issue 1: Spring 2022

Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2022. DOI: 10.1037/tmb0000058

Technology, Mind, and Behavior

Starred in Pocket:
https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/

However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company. As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.

Back to the Future of Twitter

Twitter should go private and return to its pre-2012 approach of being a centralized service with third-party clients.

Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Starred in Pocket:
https://klinger.io/posts/managing-people-%F0%9F%A4%AF

I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees as they learn how to manage groups of people. If this advice helps avoid a few cases, it’s worth writing it down. I wrote this article for managers of small teams/startups.

Managing people 🤯 | Andreas Klinger

I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this

Andreas Klinger

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/leif-abraham

In collaboration with Composer… I’m excited to share something new I’ve been working on with Composer — one of the coolest investment products out there. Composer lets you invest in or build quantitative investment strategies called “symphonies” with their slick no-code editor.

The Wisdom List: Leif Abraham | The Generalist

The co-CEO of investing unicorn Public shares his lessons on fundraising, hiring and finding focus.

www.readthegeneralist.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.mural.co/press-releases/mural-acquires-luma-launches-collaborative-intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO — March 28, 2022 — MURAL, the leading provider of digital workspaces for guided visual collaboration, announced today that it has acquired LUMA Institute (LUMA), a recognized global leader that equips people to be collaborative problem solvers through its acclaimed learning experie

MURAL Acquires LUMA Institute, Establishes Leadership in Collaborative Intelligence

MURAL Tackles $542 Billion Issue of Inefficient Collaboration With a New Discipline and System For Building Connection and Fostering Innovation at Work

www.mural.co

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.aacu.org/initiatives/value-initiative/essential-learning-outcomes

The Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) define the knowledge and skills gained from a liberal education, providing a framework to guide students’ cumulative progress.

Essential Learning Outcomes | AAC&U

The Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) define the knowledge and skills gained from a liberal education, providing a framework to guide students’ cumulative progress.

AAC&U

Starred in Pocket:
http://www.segerman.org/autologlyphs.html

Falling somewhere between ambigrams, autological words, concrete poetry and graphic design, but with a definite mathematical slant, these seem to be a new artform, albeit (at least the ones I do) requiring varying amounts of math background to really appreciate.

www.segerman.org

Starred in Pocket:
https://twitter.com/rainmaker1973/status/1510688818776715265

While an autological word is a word that describes itself, e.g. “English”, “pentasyllabic”, an autologlyph is an image that describes itself. Here’s a collection by Henry Segerman: https://t.co/fi

Twitter

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/science/education-learning-challenge.html

Several common educational strategies lean into the idea that, in the classroom, challenge is something to embrace. When Hunter, 6, started first grade last autumn, he struggled to match letter sounds with the shape of letters on paper. He found writing letters hard and writing words even harder.

Learning the Right Way to Struggle

Several common educational strategies lean into the idea that, in the classroom, challenge is something to embrace.

www.nytimes.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://ourworldindata.org/longtermism

What I learned from writing this post is that our future is potentially very, very big. This is what I try to convey here. If we keep each other safe – and protect ourselves from the risks that nature and we ourselves pose – we are only at the beginning of human history.

The Future is Vast: Longtermism’s perspective on humanity’s past, present, and future

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.

Our World in Data

Starred in Pocket:
https://replicache.dev/

Realtime Multiplayer Collaboration. Popularized by Google Docs, Figma, and Notion — realtime collaboration is awesome, but famously hard to build. Replicache provides a programming model that makes it much easier. Bring Your Own Backend.

Replicache

Replicache is a JavaScript library for building zero-latency, live-updating web UIs based on Realtime Sync.

replicache.dev

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-03-22-income-share-agreements-aren-t-the-revolution-we-thought-they-d-be

Some entrepreneurs and educators have seen Income Share Agreements, or ISAs, as a new way to improve diversity and access to higher education. The idea is students pay nothing up front for college but pledge to pay a percentage of their wages for a set time after they graduate and get a job.

Income-Share Agreements Aren't the Revolution We Thought They'd Be - EdSurge News

Some entrepreneurs and educators have seen Income Share Agreements, or ISAs, as a new way to improve diversity and access to higher education. The idea ...

EdSurge

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are/

Colleges selected by institutions as peers show the power players in the world of higher education. Those choices also reveal sometimes surprising connections. Explore the 1,595 colleges in this network to find out more, or read our article to learn about the trends.

Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?

The Chronicle compiled the peer institutions for nearly 1,500 institutions from the 2020-21 year.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Starred in Pocket:
https://firstmark.medium.com/what-i-wish-id-known-earlier-engineering-leadership-lessons-with-zapier-s-co-founder-cto-8a7152404c62

Bryan Helming is the Co-Founder and CTO of Zapier, the no-code breakout company that provides “easy automation for busy people.” Zapier is reported to have eclipsed $140M+ ARR in 2021 and is valued at over $5B.

“What I Wish I’d Known Earlier”  Engineering Leadership Lessons with Zapier’s Co-Founder & CTO

CTO Lessons from Zapier’s Co-Founder & CTO, Bryan Helmig

Medium

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https://blog.replit.com/codemirror

At Replit, our mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. In order to achieve that ambitious goal, we need to make sure that the experience of writing, running, and sharing code is as seamless as possible. At the heart of that experience is the editor itself.

Betting on CodeMirror

At Replit, our mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. In order to achieve that ambitious goal, we need to make…

Replit Blog

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-interleaving-effect-mixing-it-up-boosts-learning/

We’ve all heard the adage: practice makes perfect! In other words, acquiring skills takes time and effort. But how exactly does one go about learning a complex subject such as tennis, calculus, or even how to play the violin? An age-old answer is: practice one skill at a time.

The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning

Studying related skills or concepts in parallel is a surprisingly effective way to train your brain

Scientific American

Starred in Pocket:
https://seths.blog/2014/01/how-to-draw-an-owl/

The two circles aren’t the point. Getting the two circles right is a good idea, but lots of people manage that part. No, the difficult part is learning to see what an owl looks like.

How to draw an owl

The problem with most business and leadership advice is that it's a little like this: The two circles aren't the point. Getting the two circles right is a good idea, but lots of people ma…

Seth's Blog

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-every-company-edtech-reach-capital

In 2011, Marc Andreessen proclaimed that “Software Is Eating the World.” We have seen that prediction unfold across every industry, from commerce to real estate, finance and fashion, media and hospitality, and especially in recent years, education.

Why Every Company Will Be an Edtech Company

by Esteban Sosnik, General Partner at Reach Capital In 2011, Marc Andreessen proclaimed that “Software Is Eating the World.” We have seen that prediction unfold across every industry, from commerce to real estate, finance and fashion, media and hospitality, and especially in recent years, education.

www.linkedin.com

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https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/6233ecafdc551a002089fb15/lessons-from-19-years-in-the-metaverse/

Welcome to Galaxy Brain—a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology, media, culture, and big ideas. You can read what this is all about here. If you like what you see, consider forwarding it to a friend or two.

Second Life’s Mistakes Should Inform Today’s Metaverse

A conversation with one of the few people who have real historical perspective on digital communities

Galaxy Brain

Starred in Pocket:
https://klinger.io/posts/fyi-how-founders-can-avoid-drive-by-management

Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions. Even if we didn’t intend this to happen.

#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management | Andreas Klinger

Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...

Andreas Klinger

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.johnhagel.com/cultivating-emotions-through-learning-platforms/

My new book, The Journey Beyond Fear, covers a lot of ground, but perhaps the most speculative and also the most promising involves the untapped opportunity to deploy and participate in learning platforms.

Cultivating Emotions Through Learning Platforms – John Hagel

www.johnhagel.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/

Thinking doesn’t just happen in our heads. When faced with a problem, we rarely sit perfectly still and just think. Instead, we interact with the world around us. We move around the room, talk to other people or to ourselves, write notes, draw diagrams, build prototypes, act out scenarios.

Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.

www.inkandswitch.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://library.serviceinnovation.org/KCS/KCS_v6/KCS_v6_Practices_Guide

The latest and most complete collection of information about how to do Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS®). This description of the KCS Practices and techniques is based on the collective experience of the Consortium members. (v6 released 21 April 2016. See changes in Appendix A.

KCS v6 Practices Guide

Consortium for Service Innovation

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-03-29-an-unusual-way-to-charge-for-college-make-it-voluntary

The cost of college keeps climbing, and schools these days are considering all kinds of innovative options to keep costs low. But one liberal-arts college recently announced a radical new approach that does away with the idea of tuition altogether and instead counts on something else: gratitude.

An Unusual Way to Charge for College: Make It Voluntary - EdSurge News

One liberal-arts college recently announced a radical new approach that does away with the idea of tuition

EdSurge

Starred in Pocket:
https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/how-to-grow-the-startup-economy

In a previous post On Economic Growth, I made the case for why growing the economy is a moral imperative.

How to Grow The Startup Economy

There's no natural limit on the amount of successful startups

eriktorenberg.substack.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/does-wordle-prove-that-we-can-have-nice-things-on-the-internet

The first time I met Josh Wardle—four years before he invented the simple game that would make his last name, or a slant rhyme of it, unexpectedly famous—he was in Reddit’s San Francisco headquarters, in a state of near-panic, wondering whether one of his online experiments was about to descen

​​Does Wordle Prove That We Can Have Nice Things on the Internet?

Josh Wardle created the viral game as part of his ongoing quest to design online spaces that don’t devolve into spam and swastikas.

The New Yorker

Starred in Pocket:
https://maggieappleton.com/programmatic-notes

Most “note-taking” or “knowledge management” software acts as a passive storage container. You create notes, shuffle them around into folders, add a few tags, and then they sit there. Waiting. Until you consciously remember go looking for them.

Programmable Notes

Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows

Maggie Appleton

Starred in Pocket:
https://junglegym.substack.com/p/do-we-owe-our-careers-to-our-country

✨ If you’re a new reader, thanks for stopping by. Feel free to check out this introductory post, which explains what The Jungle Gym is all about. You can be anything you want to be – or so we tell American girls and boys.

Do we owe our careers to our country?

How the Japanese concept of Ikigai can address America's talent gaps

junglegym.substack.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://n8n.io/blog/announcing-new-sustainable-use-license/

We’ve always believed fair-code was the best model for building n8n. That’s because fair-code offers people many of the same benefits of open source (e.g. extensibility, security, privacy, transparency) while also ensuring you can build a sustainable business.

Announcing the new Sustainable Use License

We changed our license from Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause to the new Sustainable Use License. Here’s why we did this and what it means for you, our users.

n8n.io - Blog

Starred in Pocket:
https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1508251374257008640

Going into startups, no one tells you that fighting is part of the job. At Replit, the toughest people we have to fight are dark web hackers. One time we went head-to-head against an underground group doing really bad things on our service — this is the story:

Twitter

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.fohe.org/

Future of Higher Ed (“FOHE”) has quickly become one of the leading global communities for founders and practitioners focused on the future of higher education. Through sector collaboration and bold innovation, we’re building a brighter future for all learners.

Future of Higher Education

www.fohe.org

Starred in Pocket:
https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

For the world to transition to low-carbon electricity, energy from these sources needs to be cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels. Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was far cheaper than electricity from renewables.

Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?

Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was the cheapest. This has changed dramatically. In most places power from new renewables is now cheaper than new fossil fuels.

Our World in Data

Starred in Pocket:
https://subconscious.substack.com/p/block-reference-mechanisms

Writing is linear, serial, and one side-effect of communicating serially is that you have to force ideas into some sort of order. And so: stories. Authors flatten clouds of connected ideas into linear stories (lossy).

Block reference mechanisms

Writing is linear, serial, and one side-effect of communicating serially is that you have to force ideas into some sort of order. And so: stories. Authors flatten clouds of connected ideas into linear stories (lossy). Readers unbundle these linear stories, and stitch them into their own nonlinear cloud of connected ideas (lossy).

subconscious.substack.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://thenextweb.com/news/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-deleted-twice-once-by-technology-and-again-for-its-own-good

“That’s when we first noticed it, with Woody.” “[Larry Cutler] was in that directory and happened to be talking about installing a fix to Woody or Woody’s hat. He looked at the directory and it had like 40 files, and he looked again and it had four files.

How Toy Story 2 Got Deleted Twice, Once on Accident, Again on purpose

“That’s when we first noticed it, with Woody.” “[Larry Cutler] was in that directory and happened to be talking about installing a fix to Woody or Woody’s hat. He looked at the directory and it had like 40 files, and he looked again and it

TNW | Media

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.obsidianroundup.org/ite-not-second-brain/

Obsidian is modeled on integrated development environments like Visual Studio Code, not neuroscience, and I prefer it that way. Obsidian’s tagline is “A second brain, for you, forever,” but being honest, I don’t really like the metaphor of my notes app as a “second brain.

Obsidian is my Thinking Environment not my Second Brain

Obsidian is modeled on integrated development environments like Visual Studio Code, not neuroscience, and I prefer it that way.

Obsidian Roundup

Starred in Pocket:
https://arbesman.net/overedge/

Research organizations and institutions often are shoehorned into a set of well-established categories: universities, public companies, tech startups, and certain types of non-profits, such as think tanks.

The Overedge Catalog: The Future of Research Organizations

arbesman.net

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/

In a real-time collaborative editor such as Google Docs, every keystroke typed into a document is immediately visible to the other collaborators. While this can be very convenient, such real-time (or synchronous) collaboration is not always what users want.

Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.

www.inkandswitch.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-computer-programs-1

Authors Harold Abelson Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a fellow of the IEEE. He is a founding director of Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, and the Free Software Foundation.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

A new version of the classic and widely used text adapted for the JavaScript programming language.Since the publication of its first edition in 1984 and its second edition in 1996, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) has influenced computer science curricula around the world. Widely adopted as a textbook, the book has its origins…

The MIT Press

Starred in Pocket:
https://workinglearners.stanford.edu/

Daniel L. Schwartz, Stanford University Hadass Sheffer, The Graduate! Network

Working Learners – an applied science to support working learners

workinglearners.stanford.edu

Starred in Pocket:
https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.

My first impressions of web3

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...

Moxie Marlinspike

Starred in Pocket:
https://supermemo.guru/wiki/History_of_spaced_repetition_(print)

The pop version of the history of spaced repetition is full of myths and falsehoods. This text is to tell you the true story. The problem with spaced repetition is that it became too popular for its own effective replication.

History of spaced repetition (print) - supermemo.guru

supermemo.guru

Starred in Pocket:
https://rmozone.com/snapshots/2021/11/gentle-history/

the night of gentle’s release, i hosted the world’s most awkward new year’s party, took off the next morning for mexico, moved to berlin, and followed projects to shenzhen, warsaw, cairo, spoleto, ramallah, helsinki, pittsburgh, são paulo…

gentle, a personal history

gentle automatically lines up an audio file and a transcript, by the phoneme and to the centisecond. this is an associative history of gentle in five parts

rmozone.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://reduct.video/

Reduct, Inc. © 2018.

Edit Video by Editing Text

Transcribe your recordings. Search, highlight, tag to extract what matters in the video. Create sharable reels within minutes. Web-based tool for real-time collaboration. Try for free.

Reduct Video

Starred in Pocket:
https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflare-on-the-edge/

Back in 2010, right before Cloudflare’s first Board meeting and our launch, I got some advice from one of our early investors. He said running a company is a bit like flying an airplane. You want to make sure it’s well maintained at all times.

Cloudflare on the Edge

Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics.

Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Starred in Pocket:
https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/

Cloudflare is ready to launch a new cloud object storage service that promises to be cheaper than the established alternatives, a step the company believes will catapult it into direct competition with AWS and other cloud providers.

Cloudflare’s Disruption

Cloudflare’s new storage offering is potentially disruptive both economically and strategically.

Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Starred in Pocket:
https://martinfowler.com/articles/cant-buy-integration.html

Commercial integration tools are a couple decades old now, but there has been little in the way of overarching architectural principles describing when and how to use them.

You Can't Buy Integration

The usual build-versus-buy rules for applications don't apply to integration

martinfowler.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://cdixon.org/2015/01/31/come-for-the-tool-stay-for-the-network

Views expressed in “content” (including posts, podcasts, videos) linked on this website or posted in social media and other platforms (collectively, “content distribution outlets”) are my own and are not the views of AH Capital Management, L.L.C. (“a16z”) or its respective affiliates.

Come for the tool, stay for the network

Chris Dixon's blog.

cdixon.org

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.notion.so/blog/omar

Omar Rizwan is a researcher and developer​​ interested in new computer interfaces and new ways of programming. He previously worked at Stripe, Khan Academy, and Dynamicland, where he worked on projects such as Geokit.

Omar Rizwan on shaping computers into friendlier forms

Omar Rizwan is a developer who is interested in new computer interfaces and new ways of programming. He has previously worked at companies like Stripe.

Notion

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-on-web3/

It’s pos­si­ble you have, in recent months, seen peo­ple writ­ing with excite­ment (or curiosity, or consternation) about “Web3”.

Notes on Web3

Meager counterweight to the growing hype.

Robin Sloan