allowing/support creation of un-foreseen uses/activities by unknown people (more)

Group (of people or institutions?) that help you. (more)

produced or determined by society or social forces (more)

Thinking about stages of hiring/organizing Product Development team in a StartUp, from 0 up to maybe 20 product people (meaning all product-tech, design, marketing). (more)

Product-User Fit Comes Before Product-Market Fit. The honest version of “we’ve got product-market fit on a small cohort of very early power users” is “we’ve got product-user fit.” (more)

Roxine Kee: The State of DAO Documentation & Knowledge Management. About a week ago, we published this tweet and received a flood of responses: (more)

A decentralized city (DAO) built by creators, for creators... Today, Cabin is a place to get together IRL with your internet friends. In the future, our hope is that it becomes one node in a network of decentralized properties, owned and operated by small groups of independent online creators and entrepreneurs. https://www.creatorcabins.com/

Ben Hunt: Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 2: Gain of Function (more)

Gain-of-function research (GoF research or GoFR) is medical research that genetically alters an organism in a way that may enhance the biological functions of gene products. This may include an altered pathogenesis, transmissibility, or host range, i.e. the types of hosts that a microorganism can infect. This research is intended to reveal targets to better predict emerging infectious diseases and to develop vaccines and therapeutics. For example, influenza B can only infect humans and harbor seals.[1] Introducing a mutation that would allow influenza B to infect rabbits in a controlled laboratory situation would be considered a gain-of-function experiment, as the virus did not previously have that function.[2][3] That type of experiment could then help reveal which parts of the virus are responsible for its host range, enabling the creation of antiviral medicines which block this function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain-of-function_research (more)

Jeremiah Lee: Spotify's Failed #SquadGoals. Spotify doesn’t use “the Spotify model” and neither should you. (more)

Ben Thompson: Lessons from Spotify. It is not exactly groundbreaking analysis to note that Spotify has significant marginal costs — specifically, the royalties it pays the music industry (not just record labels but also songwriters and publishers). (more)

Rusty Guinn: The Tells of Fiat News. Trey Parker and Matt Stone... They have a lot to say about storytelling (more)

the combination of Fiat Money and Fiat News

software test that runs without QA human - key for test-driven development

Unit Tests are programs written to run in batches and test classes. Each typically sends a class a fixed message and verifies it returns the predicted answer. In Extreme Programming you write the Unit Test before you write the code - Test-DrivenDevelopment. (more)

A practice of writing UnitTests and AcceptanceTest before functional code, so you're continuously testing, and also using tests as a way of clarifying requirements. (more)

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Mapping the celebrity NFT complex. Have you seen this profoundly unsettling video of Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon discussing their purchases of "Bored Ape Yacht Club" NFTs on The Tonight Show? (more)

Second Life founder returns to revamp his original metaverse. Some of us were literally living in virtual spaces with virtual currency and virtual storefronts nearly 20 years ago. The virtual place many people went back then was Second Life. Philip Rosedale, Second Life's founder, has decided to task a core team to work on evolving Second Life now that the metaverse has become a buzzword yet again (more)

Philip Rosedale: Requiem for the HMD (Head-Up Display). Four hard things need to happen before the HMD can replace mobile and desktop screens. (more)