2018/03/13 Tara Vancil, “Imagine This: A Web Without Servers” (web video)

Reading The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis, reminded me of a PhD course at UBC with Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, before they were recognized as Nobel prize candidates.

Platforms have had only a short history, so much of the research is still definitional, with proposed frameworks.

When the term "platform" is used, today, what does that mean?

Migrating of Flickr to a self-hosted Piwigo site took only a few button pushes, to gain practically the same functions that I have been using for 5 years.

The acquisition by IBM of Red Hat brings together two companies that have been leading in open sourcing while private sourcing for almost 20 years.

Reflecting on my philosophical shift in 2017 from being (i.e. Heidegger), the position towards becoming-with can be further refined to becoming-alongside.

Mentally busy month with a conference coming to town, and maintaining the regular pattern of local meetings, travel around town only by bicycle.

October had more bicycling cross-town as fall temperatures declined, plus a 6-day trip to Portland Oregon for pattern language conferences.

September in Toronto is a month of festivals and restarting the regular pace of life.

Summer with family in Toronto; visiting research friends on a driving loop through the U.S. Midwest

Enjoying summer in Toronto, getting to know the city better.

Summer in Toronto, close to home. Transport almost exclusively by bicycle.

Think that you’ll be working past age 65?  OSC @smarter_money 2018 survey says >25% were forced to retire, 59% retired voluntarily. … results of a new investor survey by the Ontario Securities Commission suggest that working longer isn’t viable for many people.   > The survey of 2,000 people posed a series of questions to pre-retirees and people who [… […]

The traditional separation of mind and body is dissolved by @ISTDP, departing from traditional western medicine. Dr. Abbass, the head of Dalhousie University’s Centre for Emotions and Health, treats patients with these unexplained medical symptoms, a phenomenon also known as somatoform disorder, with an innovative form of talk therapy that’s producing impres […]

Women may more comfortable as anonymous on the World Wide Web, rather than contributing towards collaborative work such as Wikipedia. A comprehensive survey conducted in 2008 found that only 13 % of Wikipedia contributors are women. [….]  Significant gender differences were found in confidence in expertise, discomfort with editing, and response to critical f […]

Organizations need #communityship, as naturally-engaging #leadership in collective interests, says #HenryMintzberg @Mintzberg141.   I’ll bet that beyond leadership is a profound sense of communityship. (Never heard that word? I made it up1, to put leadership in its place, namely to support communityship.) Effective organizations are communities of human bein […]

As @relentlesseco writes that employees want meaningful work, perhaps the Quality of Working Life research back into the 1970s might be rediscovered. If you find “employee engagement” hard to take, “meaningful work” may also have your eyes glazing over, but that is another phrase worth noting. According to a survey of 2,000 U.S. workers by human-resources [… […]

Washington suffers from #Gerontocracy; Ottawa is 1-1/2 #Generations younger. To gauge the measure of the gerontocracy, Ottawa offers a remarkable comparison. The average age of Washington’s leaders – Mr. Trump, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. McConnell – is 75. In Canada, the three major party leaders – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and ND […]