Crystal Orange Web differs from Crystal Orange in that this methodology does not deal with a single project but with a continuous stream of initiatives that require programming and with each initiative's results being merged with the growing code base being used by the public. (more)

Rusty Guinn: An Inconvenient Truce. British and German soldiers hold a Christmas truce during the Great War...It has stuck with us for a very long time now. It will be one of our stories for much longer... Swords into Plowshares is a powerful meme....Memes are the building blocks of narrative, and the Christmas Day Truce served several narratives at once... For each of those reasons, it should be easy to see why we so often tell the story of the Christmas Day Truce in 1914.... For the same reasons, it should be easy to see why we do not tell the story of Christmas Day Truces in 1915, 1916, 1917, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 or 1944.... We don’t talk about those other truces for two reasons: first, because countries and their leaders realized after 1914 that allowing such a powerful meme to humanize the enemy was counterproductive to their war aims. Government ministries cracked down heavily on the publication of reports of any subsequent truces, shifting their existence from public knowledge back to private knowledge. Second, we don’t talk about many later truces because military command among practically all of the belligerents made a special point from then on to schedule Christmas Eve raids or, at the very least, to engage in artillery bombardment or steady machine gun fire to prevent the rising of audible carols. I tweeted that I'm unclear on who the missionaries are, and what exactly their role and motivation is. See also my Culture War map/links, esp (2017-02-15) MindMap CultureWar SocialMedia Economy. (more)

I saw tweets about fake COVID-19 rapid test sites, and got concerned because 2 of my kids have gotten tested. (more)

Ash Maurya: “Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question. A business model describes 3 things: value creation, value delivery, and value capture. All three relate to customers. Therefore, customer-centricity also needs to be at the core of how you define, measure, and communicate progress. (more)

White Board for visually tracking status of various User Stories in Agile Software Development (more)

Sean Patrick Hughes: The End of the American Century. The invasion of Iraq is now near universally condemned. The war in Afghanistan, which is now on its fourth administration, is a punch line. America came as close to not having a peaceful transfer of power as it’s come since the Civil War. Blood and soil nationalism, “the drink of political losers” is alive and well in America in a way it’s never been in my lifetime. Our citizens stormed the Capitol (2021 Storming of the US Capitol) in hopes that a revolution would follow. The fall is upon us. (more)

Master narrative, metanarrative, metadis-course, and grand narrative, as expounded by the French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924–98), are broadly synonymous terms which refer to totalizing social theories or philosophies of history which, appealing to notions of transcendental and universal truth, purport to offer a comprehensive account of knowledge and experience. “Meta” means beyond or about, and therefore here refers to all-encompassing Narratives which explain other, smaller narratives. Lyotard's account of metanarratives and their demise is a founding element of PostModernism. (more)

FourGW term? Foreign Policy? wider? or is it really a generic phrase? (more)

I confess I've probably read every Tom Peters book (up through 2003). (more)

RT-PCR is the most commonly-used (COVID-19) diagnostic test.[173] PCR tests by nasopharyngeal swab have a sensitivity of 73%, but systematic analysis of specificity has not been determined due to the lack of PCR studies with a control group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing#PCR-based_test

A rapid diagnostic test (RDT) is a medical diagnostic test that is quick and easy to perform. RDTs are suitable for preliminary or emergency medical screening and for use in medical facilities with limited resources. They also allow point-of-care testing in primary care for things that formerly only a laboratory test could measure. They provide same-day results within two hours, typically in approximately 20 minutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_diagnostic_test (more)

I'm pondering some thoughts around gardening an Agile Product Development process, inspired by (more)

founder of Superhuman

see Net Promoter Score

Gordon Brander concept-note-taking-app, called just "subconscious" (used to be "Mem"). Track his thinking via https://subconscious.substack.com/ and https://github.com/gordonbrander/subtext (more)

Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (and What UX Professionals Can Do About It). Even though NPS has been solidly debunked in many smart research papers, it’s still solidly embedded into many businesses. We hear about companies rolling out new NPS measurement programs every day. (more)

Voices: a Text Analytics Platform for Understanding Member Feedback. Voices aggregates unstructured text across both internal (e.g. LinkedIn posts, customer support cases, NPS survey results) and external (e.g. social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, news, forums, and blogs) data sources (more)

Jeff Gothelf: NPS is a waste of time. Use these metrics instead. Instead of asking your customers some variation of, “Are you satisfied enough right now to do something in the future we find valuable?” ask them nothing, observe their behaviour and pose the following question to your team: “What do satisfied customers do in our product?” The answers your team comes up with will be customer behaviours — outcomes. These are the metrics you should be measuring instead.

Steven Johnson: The Serendipity Engine. When I first began sketching out the structure for this series, one of the core questions I came up with was: “How do you surprise yourself?” It’s one thing to develop tools and practices that help you keep track of your ideas, or cultivate them over time. But what about techniques to help spark a new idea, something that would not normally have occurred to you? How do you set up a work environment that encourages the kind of serendipitous discovery I wrote about in the previous installment of this series? ((2021-12-10) JohnsonSevenTypesOfSerendipity) (more)

A decentralized application (DApp,[1] dApp,[2] Dapp, or dapp) is a computer application that runs on a decentralized computing system. DApps have been popularized by distributed ledger technologies (DLT) such as the Ethereum blockchain,[3] through the use of smart contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_application