book by Kenneth Brown from 1988 ISBN:1556151233 (more)

Bruce Sterling: Futures of Cybernetics (bad auto-transcript of video). Cybernetics might have a Revival (more)

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a communication process developed by clinical psychologist Marshall Rosenberg in the 1960s and 1970s based on the principles of nonviolence and humanistic psychology. It aims to increase empathic understanding and reduce conflict in everyday interactions. It foregrounds four components—observation (distinguishing concrete observation from evaluation), feelings, fundamental needs,[1] and requests—and encourages expressing observations and needs without judgment in order to foster voluntary cooperation.[2][3][4][5][6] Nonviolent Communication evolved from concepts used in person-centered therapy... Marshall Rosenberg's motivation for developing NVC was based on his own experiences at the Detroit race riot of 1943, as well as the antisemitism that he experienced in his early life. NVC's development was highly influenced by Carl Rogers' person-centered therapy, particularly the value of congruence, empathic listening, and realness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication (more)

typical way of viewing Hierarchical Data (more)

Data Base model where detailed records/objects tend to be accessed only through a single parent (more)

Claude reasoning engine.

the people who cross silos, regardless of title (more)

Hot take: a lot of "soft skills" in business are necessary only as side-effects of crummy Organization Design: structure, process, culture. Incoherent/lacking Autonomy, Mastery, And Purpose. Are you really rationalizing/rewarding a political (student council) process/culture? See also High Agency, Glue People. (more)

Ecosystem is the next big growth channel. Lenny Rachitsky says: Emily Kramer has identified a pattern in how top AI (and non-AI) startups are able to break through the noise and grow unlike at any other time in history. Once you see it, you immediately rethink your growth strategy. I did! After reading the first draft of this post, I got a whole new level of understanding for why my product pass has been such a success (fun fact: it doubled my growth, and is the most win-win-win idea I’ve ever concocted. (more)

Dean Ball on adopters of Claude Opus 4.5: undoubtedly true that opus 4.5 is the 4o of the 130+ iq community. we have already seen opus psychosis. (more)

Robin Lopes: Startups like Lovable & Cursor leverage their teams as content machines. There’s a quiet social media hack that startups like Lovable and Cursor are using right now they’re turning their 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬. Look at Lovable and Cursor. yes, the founders are visible but the real power move...? They’ve surrounded themselves with operators who also have distribution. Growth. Product. Design. Dev education. Community.... What this creates: - Every hire becomes a media surface - Every post compounds trust - Demand comes from multiple corners of the internet - Distribution isn’t a channel anymore. It’s a 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭. The takeaway: Don’t just build a product. Don’t just build a personal brand. Build a 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬.

Matt Huebert: When I Sit Down At My Editor, I Feel Relaxed. My environment of work was more often a distraction, rather than help, to the flashes of vision that would enter my mind and wish to exist. The flow state between imagination and concrete representation in the world was constantly interrupted. (more)

If I Were Building Mindvalley Again in 2026… It took me 20 years to build Mindvalley. If I were starting today, in 2026, I could build the same company in 12 months, with one-twentieth the people, and with far less friction, stress, and pain. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The $140,000 Question. There was a no good, quite bad article by Michael Green that went viral. (2025-11-23) Green Poverty Line Is A Lie (more)

short-form Non-Fiction (more)

(graph as in data-structure, not as in diagram) Model/structure of multiple metrics for your organization; see esp Schmidt Backlinks below, incl (2023-11-16) Schmidt Input Metrics Are So Hard That Most Product Teams Give Up (more)

Narrower version of your Ideal Customer Profile, to use as customer validation. See (2024-12-01) Rachitsky Identify Your Bullseye Customer In One Day

Lenny Rachitsky: Identify your bullseye customer in one day. Today, my guest is Michael Margolis. Michael has been a UX researcher at Google Ventures for almost 15 years. (more)

The Best Of Category Pirates 2025. (more)

Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners (learning programming). From Matt Huebert and others. (more)