GeePawHill describes certain books as "HELS" - "high-end-layperson-suitable". A good To-Read list. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The Twitter Files: Covid-19 Edition. I’ll walk through the thread... A common dunk on The Twitter Files has been ‘oh look at these records that show a reasonable company acting completely reasonably.’ That is not a dunk (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/22/22: Reevaluating Past Options. Here in America, things are quiet. It seems like it was a good week to look back, as MR did, upon our options regarding focused protection, and what we can take away from that. (more)

Visakan Veerasamy: Santa Is Real. I’m almost kinda mad at how good the above meme is at distilling everything I was initially hoping to say in this essay. But maybe it’s still worth talking about it. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/15/22: China’s Wave Begins. China stopped attempting to contain Covid-19. They have accepted that the costs of continuing to do this are unacceptably high. Instead, they have decided they are content to contain official case numbers while they brace for the impact of the Covid surge they have successfully put off for three years (more)

Scott Alexander: The Media Very Rarely Lies. When the media misinforms people, it does so by misinterpreting things, excluding context, or signal-boosting some events while ignoring others, not by participating in some bright-line category called “misinformation”. (more)

Jon Udell has a series on Mastodon, often involving creating a custom UI using Steampipe. (more)

Fernando Borretti: Unbundling Tools for Thought. Short version: Tools for thought promise to let you centralize and hyperlink all your data. In practice 95% of the use cases can be naturally unbundled into disjoint apps, and the lack of centralization and cross-app hyperlinking has no real negative effects. (more)

Martin Cagan: Where To Work (as a product manager)? I have shared publicly the names of several excellent companies that are built on true product teams. Google, Netflix, Amazon, Stripe, Atlassian and Apple are some of the well-known names. And there are many excellent startups and growth-stage companies, far too many to list. (more)

Brian Marick: Tinkerable software and Mastodon. (more)

The Twitter Files are a series of Twitter threads based on internal Twitter, Inc. documents shared by owner Elon Musk (Musk Buys Twitter) with freelance journalist Matt Taibbi, opinion writer Bari Weiss, and author Michael Shellenberger in December 2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the release of the documents with Twitter management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files cf content moderation (more)

like Energy Accounting, but for Carbon - to support carbon market (carbon tax) (more)

Context: mid-life crisis, existential angst (more)

Book I want to write. (Will probably end up with Self Published very-ThinBook EBook.) (more)

The halo effect (sometimes called the halo error) is the tendency for positive impressions of a person, company, brand, or product in one area to positively influence one's opinion or feelings in other areas.[1][2] Halo effect is “the name given to the phenomenon whereby evaluators tend to be influenced by their previous judgments of performance or personality.”[3] The halo effect is a cognitive bias which can possibly prevent someone from accepting a person, a product or a brand based on the idea of an unfounded belief on what is good or bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect (more)

Andrew Zolli on the UniFon phonetic alphabet. (more)

Book by Geoffrey Moore on Marketing of high-tech products (or you could just consider it to be Business Strategy) - basically dealing with the Technology Adoption Life Cycle. Specifically, how to make your product, which is already accepted by Innovator and Early Adopter buyers, acceptable/attractive to the Pragmatist Consumer. ISBN:0060517123 (more)

Developers have multiple ways of helping each other: pair programming, code review... Shouldn't Product Managers have the same thing? (more)

Product Management process of always (every week) (iterative) doing Product Discovery. (more)

Agile Software Development practice - two engineers participate in one development effort at one workstation. Each member performs the action the other is not currently doing: While one types in Unit Test-s the other thinks about the class that will satisfy the test, for example. (more)