Dave Winer pitch for fixing some document standards (cf digital garden standards). One platform requires titles, another doesn't allow titles. One has styling, bold, italic, and links, but can't handle updates. Another has no styling or links, but does allow updates. (more)

Sean Johnson: Nailing Product-Market Fit: The Definitive Guide. Some people believe the answer is “when you can sustainably acquire customers for less than the value you extract from them.” (more)

Mike Solana: Masters in Poverty. Colleges around the country, and especially graduate schools, are destroying the lives of young people. Product both of a pyramid-scheming academic class and bi-partisan commitment from the United States government, the problem is genuinely systemic. My suggestion is we burn this system to the ground. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 54/52: "That Framework Is Just Common Sense!" I recently chatted with an experienced product manager friend, and he asked me about a popular framework. "I can't believe it's an actual thing," he mentioned. "The concept is so core to good product management that I don't understand why people need a specific framework to describe that one concept." (more)

Mike Solana: Based and Horse-Pilled. I do find it genuinely difficult to tell if the world is ending or if the smallness of social media makes it feel like the world is ending, but even by the “everything is burning” standards I’ve come to expect from Twitter it’s been a wild week. (more)

Mike Solana: Making Space for Monkeys. In 1984, Apple released one of the most famous commercials in American history, declared itself the mother ship for “thinking different,”... last week the house that Jobs built set a new creative standard when, just days after Business Insider reported he’d been hired to Apple’s ads team, the company fired Antonio García Martinez for the crime of having produced, five years ago, the critically-acclaimed, bestselling book Chaos Monkeys. (more)

Mike Solana: Hereticon, Notes from the IRL. Last week, Founders Fund launched Hereticon, a conference for thoughtcrime. (more)

Mike Solana: Jump. Back in elementary school a ‘scientific theory’ hit the playground that blew my mind: if every person in China jumped at the same time, their impact would knock our planet off its axis and the world would end....this idea really captured me. It was the frightening image of it first, every single person in a country doing the same thing, at the same time (more)

The ‘Twitter Files’ Is What It Claims to Expose.Twitter is not what it seems. The social media platform poses as a neutral marketplace for the exchange of ideas and information...But it is actually a tool of progressive power. That’s the story that conservatives want to tell about what Twitter used to be, in the bad old days before Elon Musk begrudgingly bought it. (more)

Brad DeLong: The Forlorn Hope That Was Vox.com, & BRIEFLY NOTED. Matt Yglesias: What I learned co-founding Vox: ‘The current Vox management team or editorial staff… are doing a good job executing a reasonable strategy—it’s just not the strategy we set off with (more)

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent organization, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company, considered a competitor to DeepMind, conducts research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with the stated goal of promoting and developing friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole. The organization was founded in San Francisco in late 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others, who collectively pledged US$1 billion. Musk resigned from the board in February 2018[3] but remained a donor. In 2019, OpenAI LP received a US$1 billion investment from Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI (more)

ChatBot (Conversational Interface) SaaS. https://api.ai/ (more)

Had it in my calendar for yesterday. Today site was broken. Gotta schedule a couple days in advance. (more)

Google, Microsoft, And Startups Are Going To War On Chatbot Technology. Earlier this week Google planted a major flag in the war as it pushes further into the enterprise business dominated by Salesforce, SAP and Zendesk announcing bot technology for call centers alongside a raft of other machine-learning tools for its cloud customers. (more)

Peter Kaminski: What I Tell Friends About COVID-19 in December 2022. Version 2022-12-10-001. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/08/22: Another Winter Wave. Cases will for a time double or triple from where they are. Combined with the flu and RSV, this will mean that while our health care systems will hold, they will be under substantial strain that impacts quality of care. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 11/24/22: Thanks for Good Health (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: What's The Deal With Elon Musk and Twitter? At the end of long saga well-covered in hilarious fashion by Matt Levine, Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. He then began doing things. (Musk Buys Twitter) (more)

aka flu vaccine

primate/anal insult - see Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy