Philippe Kahn (born March 16, 1952)[4] is an engineer, entrepreneur and founder of four technology companies: Borland, Starfish Software, LightSurf Technologies, and Fullpower Technologies. Kahn is credited with creating the first camera phone,[5][6] being a pioneer for wearable technology intellectual property, and is the author of dozens of technology patents covering Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) modeling, wearable, eyewear, smartphone, mobile, imaging, wireless, synchronization and medical technologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn

A radar chart is a graphical method (diagram) of displaying multivariate data in the form of a two-dimensional chart of three or more quantitative variables represented on axes starting from the same point. The relative position and angle of the axes is typically uninformative, but various heuristics, such as algorithms that plot data as the maximal total area, can be applied to sort the variables (axes) into relative positions that reveal distinct correlations, trade-offs, and a multitude of other comparative measures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_chart

Skillshare (stylized as SKILLSHARE) is an American online learning community for people who want to learn from educational videos.[1][2][3] The courses, which are not accredited, are available through subscription.[4][5] The majority of courses focus on interaction rather than lecturing, with the primary goal of learning by completing a project. The main course categories include creative arts, design, entrepreneurship, lifestyle and technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skillshare (more)

Marketing your site/service by having "good" "content". (more)

Casey Newton: The battle inside Signal. Signal app appears to have more than 40 million users, up from approximately 20 million last month (more)

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)

Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes: Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0. Until the last few years, it made sense to talk in terms of a red tribe and a blue tribe when describing political affiliation. (Red Vs Blue) However, this dichotomy no longer provides a sufficient map of the political territory we find ourselves in. (more)

founder of Superhuman

see Net Promoter Score