Erik Hoel: INTRODUCING: The World Behind the World. What do you give away, when you write a book? What piece of yourself are you carving off, I mean? (more)

Antonio Damasio (Portuguese: António Damásio) is a Portuguese neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, additionally, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute.[1] He was previously the chair of neurology at the University of Iowa for 20 years.[2] Damasio heads the Brain and Creativity Institute, and has authored several books: his work, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010), explores the relationship between the brain and consciousness.[3] Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Damasio

In political jargon, a self-licking ice cream cone is a self-perpetuating system that has no purpose other than to sustain itself. The phrase appeared to have been first used in 1991–1992, in a book about Gulf War weapons systems by Norman Friedman,[1] and On Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones, a paper by Pete Worden about NASA's bureaucracy, to describe the relationship between the Space Shuttle and Space Station. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone (more)

The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2007, catapulted into the mainstream by Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign.[1] The movement expanded in response to the policies of Democratic President Barack Obama[2][3], the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (Bail-Out) of 2008,[4] the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009,[5][6] and a series of HealthCare reform bills.[7], and was a major factor in the 2010 wave election[4][5] in which Republicans gained 63 House seats[6] and took control of the U.S. House of Representatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

From the Great Depression through now. 2 separate Economic Transitions. (A Brain Fart started in 2009.) (more)

documentation that's not meant to be printed! (more)

customer service engine - online help docs, chatbot, etc.

Ash Maurya: Making happy customers is the universal job of every business. (Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business). Making happy customers is NOT the same thing as making customers happy. The work of making happy customers happens in a customer factory. (more)

Ash Maurya: The Customer Factory Manifesto. 1. All Businesses Share a Common Universal Goal: To make happy customers. (cf Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business) (more)

Ash Maurya: What is a Job-To-Be-Done (JTBD) – Love the Problem. Even after all this research, two things continue to bother me (more)

Ash Maurya model of the key macro steps a customer takes from being an unaware visitor to a happy paying customer. (Stages of Consumer Buying Decision Process)

Eli Goldratt book about retail - ISBN:0884271943 ASIN:B00408ALES (more)

Mad Libs is a word game created by Leonard Stern (the screenwriter) and Roger Price.[3] It consists of one player prompting others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story before reading aloud. The game is frequently played as a party game or as a pastime. It can be categorized as a phrasal template game. The game was invented in the United States, and more than 110 million copies of Mad Libs books have been sold since the series was first published in 1958... Mad Libs was invented in 1953[4] by Leonard Stern and Roger Price. Stern and Price created the game, but could not agree on a name for their invention.[3] No name was chosen until five years later (1958), when Stern and Price were eating Eggs Benedict at a restaurant in New York City. While eating, the two overheard an argument at a neighboring table between a talent agent and an actor.[3] According to Price and Stern, during the overheard argument, the actor said that he wanted to "ad-lib" an upcoming interview. The agent, who clearly disagreed with the actor's suggestion, retorted that ad-libbing an interview would be "mad".[3] Stern and Price used that eavesdropped conversation to create, at length, the name "Mad Libs".[3] In 1958, the duo released the first book of Mad Libs, which resembled the earlier games[5] of consequences and exquisite corpse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs

Jazz rap (also jazz hop or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre,[1] that developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. AllMusic writes that the genre "was an attempt to fuse African-American music of the past with a newly dominant form of the present, paying tribute to and reinvigorating the former while expanding the horizons of the latter." The rhythm was rooted in hip hop[1] over which were placed repetitive phrases of jazz instrumentation: trumpet, double bass, etc. Groups involved in the formation of jazz rap included A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, De La Soul, Gang Starr, The Roots, Jungle Brothers, and Dream Warriors... Jazz rap's emergence can be seen as an attempt to elevate rap music's status by associating it with jazz's cultural capital, and was seen as an alternative to more dominant subgenres like gangsta and pop rap... In 1989, Gang Starr released the debut single "Words I Manifest", sampling Dizzy Gillespie's 1952 "Night in Tunisia", and Stetsasonic released "Talkin' All That Jazz", sampling Lonnie Liston Smith.... Digable Planets' 1993 release Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) was a hit jazz rap record sampling the likes of Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. It spawned the hit single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)".[5] Also in 1993, Us3 released Hand on the Torch on Blue Note Records. All samples were from the Blue Note catalogue. The single "Cantaloop" was Blue Note's first gold record... Though jazz rap had achieved little mainstream success, jazz legend Miles Davis' final album (released posthumously in 1992), Doo-Bop, featured hip hop beats and collaborations with producer Easy Mo Bee... Musical jazz references became less obvious and less sustained, and lyrical references to jazz certainly more rare.[12] However, jazz had been added to the palette of hip hop producers, and its influence continued throughout the 1990s whether behind the gritty street-tales of Nas (Illmatic, Columbia, 1994), or backing the more bohemian sensibilities of acts such as The Roots, The Nonce, and Common. Since 2000 it can be detected in the work of producers such as J. Rawls, Nujabes, Fat Jon, Madlib, Kero One, and the English duo The Herbaliser. A project somewhat similar to Buckshot Le Fonque was Brooklyn Funk Essentials, a New York–based collective who also released their first LP in 1994. Prince himself contributed to the genre on some songs from 1991 to 1992, as well as with his New Power Generation album Gold Nigga, which mixed jazz, funk and hip-hop and was released very confidentially. One hip hop project which continued to maintain a direct connection to jazz was Guru's Jazzmatazz series, which used live jazz musicians in the studio.[13] Spanning from 1993 to 2007, its four volumes assembled jazz luminaries like Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Courtney Pine, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Garrett and Lonnie Liston Smith, and hip hop performers such as Kool Keith, MC Solaar, Common, and Guru's Gang Starr colleague DJ Premier. Madlib's 2003 release Shades of Blue paid homage to his Blue Note Records roots, where he samples from Blue Note's archives. The album also contains interpretations of Blue Note classics performed by Yesterdays New Quintet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_rap

Ash Maurya: The Backstory Behind Customer Forces Stories. Good customer / problem discovery is key to achieving problem/solution fit. (more)

aka Customer Forces - motivations pushing/pulling customer (or other decision-maker) between current-state and possible-post-purchase/decision-state. (more)

Shaving Pieries on Demand-Side Sales: Short Summary Notes. "People convince themselves, we convince them of nothing." (more)

There are multiple "models" of the stages in the customer buying decision-making process. (more)

the actual customer-desire aspect of a business model and operation; cf customer discovery, compelling vs status quo (more)

Steve Blank model of Start Up success (more)