Cedric Chin: The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading. ...reading in service of career goals (more)
Cedric Chin: Peak. Professor K. Anders Ericsson has had a very accomplished career studying the forms and origins of expertise. Early in his life he worked under renowned polymath Herbert Simon. (more)
Cedric Chin: Reality Without Frameworks. When you’re inexperienced, frameworks are wonderful things. (more)
Cedric Chin: A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice. A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series of posts that examines the notion of putting 'mental models' to practice in one's life, in the pursuit of learning better decision making. (more)
An immutable in-memory database and Datalog query engine in Clojure and ClojureScript. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript (more)
RESTful Web APIs book by Leonard Richardson and Mike Amundsen, with a forward by Sam Ruby. ISBN:1449358063 https://www.crummy.com/writing/RESTful-Web-APIs/ (more)
Frank Chimero: The Web’s Grain. It is a companion to What Screens Want, a previous essay on designing natively for screens (2013-11-14-ChimeroWhatScreensWant) Here we have a very vanilla website. No styles, just markup. All defaults. (more)
Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid19 6/9/22: Nice. Things seem to have peaked in the Northeast once again. Nice. Things are getting worse in the South as the summer hits. Not as nice, not that unexpected. At this point we can pattern match. You know what else is nice? Not having to care about the pandemic (more)
Zvi Mowshowitz: Air Conditioner Repair. A few weeks ago, the in-wall air conditioner in our bedroom ceased to function. (more)
Mike Caulfield: Trump University's Online Materials Are a Lot Better Than Your University’s Online Materials. Yesterday, Roger Schank (famous cognitive scientist and learning theorist) released some of the work he and his team did for Trump University back in 2005 or so. (more)
An affordance is what a user can do with an object based on the user’s capabilities. As such, an affordance is not a “property” of an object (like a physical object or a User Interface). Instead, an affordance is defined in the relation between the user and the object. (design; Opinionated)
potential/affordance for composition
Tiago Forte on why Tagging Is Broken in EverNote and everywhere else. There is an axiom in the productivity world that goes something like this: “Tags are inherently superior to folders” (more)
Justin Falcone: The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle for the Mind. This is a transcript of a recently discovered talk presented at ManhattanBBS, a NYC tech meetup, in November of 1990. (That's the joke/setup.) What is it that we like about computers? (more)
Problem Details for HTTP APIs https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807
Frank Chimero: What Screens Want. What does it mean to natively design for screens? (more)
Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby book on ReST-ful Web Services ISBN:0596529260. ROA = Resource Oriented Architecture. (more)
This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)
My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Evolution by increasing Freedom, Agency, and Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (SmallWorld) via D And D of Thinking Tools (software and Games To Play).
See Intro Page for space-related goals, status, etc.; or Wiki Node for more terse summary info.
Beware the War On The Net!
Current:
- head of product for an early-stage boot-strapped company
- founder FluxGarden for Digital Garden hosting
- wrote Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems ASIN:B00HHJA5JS
My Coding for fun.
Past:
- Director Product Managment, NCSA Sports
- CTO/Product Manager at a series of startups: MedScape, then Axiom Legal, then Living Independently, then DailyLit, then AEP...
- founded Family Financial Future, personal-financial-planning nagware for parents
- consulting
- founded Teamflux.com, a hosting service for wiki-based collaboration spaces.
- founded Wikilogs.com, a hosting service for WikiLog-s (wiki-based weblogs).
Agile Product Development, Product Management from MVP to Product-Market Fit, Adding Product To Your Startup Team, Agility, Context, and Team Agency, (2022-10-12) Accidental Learnings of a Journeyman Product Manager
Big Levers, Theory of Change, Change the World, (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future; Network Enlightenment, Optimistic Near Future Vision; Huge Invention; Alternatives To A College Degree; Credit Crisis 2008; Economic Transition; Network Economy; Making A Living; Varieties Of Info Technology Jobs; Generative Schooling; Product Oriented Unschooling; Reality Hacker; A 20th Century Economic Theory
FluxGarden; Network Enlightenment Ecosystem; ThinkingTools Interaction as Medium; Hypermedia Pattern Language; Everyone Needs Their Own ThinkingSpace; Digital Garden; Virtual ThinkingSpace; Thinking Tools Companies; Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts; My CollaborationWare History; Wiki Proliferation; Portal Collaboration Roadmap; Wiki For GroupWare, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, Email Discussion Beside Wiki, Wiki For CollaborationWare, Collaboration Roadmap; Sister Sites; Wiki Hack
Personal Cloud; 2018-11-29-NextOpenInfrastructure, 2018-11-15-BooksVsTweets; Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock
Social Warrens; Culture War; 2017-02-15-MindmapCultureWarSocialMediaEconomy; Cultural Pluralism
Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Small Tribe, SimplestThing, Becoming A Reality Hacker, Less-Bullshit Living, The Craft; Games To Play; Evolution, Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems
Digital Therapeutics, (2021-05-26) Pondering a Mental Health space, CoachBot; Inside-Out Markov Chain