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Vaughn Tan Unpacking Boris. This article explains why conventional goal-setting is usually self-defeating, and how organizations can free themselves to act more autonomously and effectively by focusing on tradeoffs instead. I call this tradeoff-oriented process Boris. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 213: Goal Cascades vs. High-Conviction Models. Imagine a “normal” annual or biannual planning process (roadmap). Everyone is throwing out pet ideas! Politics everywhere. If something can generate immediate $ it is good—you might as well throw darts at the other stuff. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 209: Fog and Debt Debt. As a system's health deteriorates, its ability to identify and resolve challenges is progressively impaired. This kicks off a vicious cycle of declining health and increasing difficulty in diagnosing and addressing problems. (more)

Itamar Gilad: Why Impact/Effort Prioritization Doesn’t Work. Effort can be stated in man/weeks or simply has high/medium/low. Impact can be graded on a scale, for example 1–5, 5 being the highest, or again as high/medium/low. Once you have the numbers in place, it’s a matter of picking the features that give you the best bang for the buck (more)

John Cutler: TBM 216: Good Goals/Bad Goals. In my experience, SMART is only the tip of the iceberg. OKRs, to their benefit, seek to encourage some positive goal-setting habits, but ultimately they are still goals (more)

Nathan Baschez: How to Prioritize a Roadmap. There are two ubiquitous pieces of advice on how to prioritize a product roadmap. Unfortunately, both are useless. (more)

Venkatesh Rao 2019 term for the darkweb bits which are just friendly-private.

Open Source Interactive HyperText tool/Game Engine. Built on top of Tiddly Wiki. (more)

The DecentralizedWeb? DeCentralization of all internet protocols? See also Crypto, Metaverse, DAO, NFT... (more)

a super-famous computer game

I keep forgetting to try the Computer Game Passage. (more)

HATEOAS, an abbreviation for HyperMedia as the Engine of Application State, is a constraint of the ReST application architecture that distinguishes it from most other network application architectures. The principle is that a client interacts with a network application entirely through hypermedia provided dynamically by application servers. A REST client needs no prior knowledge about how to interact with any particular application or server beyond a generic understanding of hypermedia. By contrast, in a service-oriented architecture (SOA), clients and servers interact through a fixed interface shared through documentation or an interface description language (IDL). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS (more)

Datomic is a distributed database and implementation of Datalog.[2][3] It has ACID transactions, joins, and a logical query language, Datalog.[4][5] A distinguishing feature of Datomic is that time is a basic feature of data entities. It has been designed for first-class use with JVM languages such as Java and Clojure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datomic (more)

Cedric Chin: Technological Windows. The concept of a ‘technological window’ is the central idea that has informed all of Apple founder Steve Jobs’s pursuits in consumer technology. Jobs articulated the concept in a 1992 talk at the Sloan school of business at MIT (more)

Cedric Chin: Operational Excellence is the Pursuit of ‘Knowledge’. This is Part 3 of the Becoming Data Driven series. In How to Become Data Driven, I introduced process behaviour charts... (more)

Cedric Chin: Organisational Politics: Beware the Simple Story. It’s easy to point fingers at other people and say “look at their flaws!” so here’s one that affects me badly. Perhaps this is something that affects you too. (more)

Book about Agile Software Development by Jerry Weinberg https://leanpub.com/jerrysblog (more)

rationalist blogger, aka SlateStarCodex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex (more)

What Happened When Uber’s CEO Started Driving for Uber. As the economy reopened after pandemic lockdowns, riders returned at a faster pace than drivers. Uber at first defaulted to an old formula—financial incentives. In April 2021, Dara Khosrowshahi carved out $250 million in bonuses to entice drivers. When the company revealed in August that year that the spending had weighed on its results, its shares tanked. Investors hammered Mr. Khosrowshahi. (more)