Aaron Dignan on How to choose a model of Self Organization that works for you... (cf 2013-12-23-3NewOrganizationModels) (more)

Venkatesh Rao on Unicorns, BandWagons and Networks: For a tiny minority (of people), the question is whether to become part of the unicorn itself. For the vast majority though, especially outside of Silicon Valley, the question is whether to jump on the bandwagon being dragged behind it. (more)

see asynch

aka Virtual Team, Remote Team, etc. (more)

employees not in the office - see Distributed Team, etc

Edgar Henry Schein (born March 5, 1928), a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has made a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture... Schein's model of organizational culture originated in the 1980s. Schein (2004) identifies three distinct levels in organizational cultures: artifacts and behaviours; espoused values; assumptions... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Schein

Business strategy, product strategy, military strategy, Grand Strategy, etc

Gordon Brander: The state of the web. What’s next for the web? I’ve spent a good chunk of my career trying to answer this question in practice, making the web do things it maybe shouldn’t… stuff like mobile operating systems, and VR. Follow-up to (2021-09-10) Brander Why Did The Web Take Over Desktop And Not Mobile. (more)

Limiting beliefs are false beliefs that prevent us from pursuing our goals and desires. Limiting beliefs can keep you from doing important things, like applying for your dream job or finding the relationship you want (or leaving the one you don’t want). They can also keep you from doing unimportant things, like skydiving in your underwear or trying out that weird Scotchberry ice cream flavor that looks like baby vomit in a cone.

Planning by envisioning a destination and then designing the process to get there. (more)

Visakan Veerasamy ebook. HIGH VOLTAGE LIVING is somewhere at the intersection of Introspect and Optics. It's about "narrative throughput". It involves understanding talismans (any meaningful object) and aesthetics. It's about learning to charge & discharge narrative batteries. Spark Joy turned to 11. (more)

Visakan Veerasamy ebook. I’m a fan of the phrase “constructive ADHD”, more so than say “productive ADHD”, because it makes me think of building things. (making) (more)

sarcastic name for Collapse in the Jackpot Series

If you're on a software Product Team, in any role, you should read scifi books to see futures. (Movies could work in theory, I think, but rarely are as deep, and require more re-viewing to learn anything from.) Why? For pattern-recognition in seeing-futures, side-effects, ethical issues, and raising the bar in human progress. (more)

Ben Hunt's proposal for the US economy: (more)

Treasury bills (T-bills) are zero-coupon bonds that mature in one year or less. They are bought at a discount of the par value and, instead of paying a coupon interest, are eventually redeemed at that par value to create a positive yield to maturity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_security#Treasury_bill (more)

"Too big to fail" (TBTF) is a theory in banking and finance that asserts that certain corporations, particularly financial institutions, are so large and so interconnected that their failure would be disastrous to the greater economic system, and that they therefore must be supported by governments when they face potential failure.[1] The colloquial term "too big to fail" was popularized by U.S. Congressman Stewart McKinney in a 1984 Congressional hearing, discussing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) intervention with Continental Illinois.[2] The term had previously been used occasionally in the press,[3] and similar thinking had motivated earlier bank bailouts.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail

"Defund the police" is a slogan that supports divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources. Activists who use the phrase may do so with varying intentions; some seek modest reductions, while others argue for full divestment as a step toward the abolition of contemporary police services. Activists who support the defunding of police departments often argue that investing in community programs could provide a better crime deterrent for communities; funds would go toward addressing social issues, like poverty, homelessness, and mental disorders.[1][2] Police abolitionists call for replacing existing police forces with other systems of public safety, like housing, employment, community health, education, and other programs.[3][4][5] The "defund the police" slogan became common during the George Floyd protests starting in May 2020.[6] According to Jenna Wortham and Matthew Yglesias, the slogan was popularized by the Black Visions Collective shortly after the murder of George Floyd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police (more)

Jordan Hall: Defund (and redesign) everything. We have now reached a very interesting point. At least at the narrative level we have reached the point that “defund the police” is a real proposition (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 10/07: Steady as She Goes. For the second week in a row little has changed. (more)