Moxie Marlinspike: My first impressions of web3. Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.”... I don’t share the same generational excitement for moving all aspects of life into an instrumented economy.... Even strictly on the technological level, though, I haven’t yet managed to become a believer. So given all of the recent attention into what is now being called web3, I decided to explore some of what has been happening in that space more thoroughly to see what I may be missing. (more)

To-Do List for $47/month? (more)

Karl Fogel has a new edition of Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project. A free software project can be started, and it can be influenced by interested parties. But its assets cannot be made the property of any single owner, and as long as there are people somewhere — anywhere — interested in continuing it, it can never be unilaterally shut down. Everyone has infinite power; everyone has no power. It's an interesting situation. That is why I wanted to write this book in the first place, and, a decade later, wanted to update it. Free software projects have evolved a distinct culture, an ethos in which the liberty to make the software do anything one wants is a central tenet. Yet the result of this liberty is not a scattering of individuals each going their own separate way with the code, but enthusiastic collaboration and frequent compromise. Indeed, competence at cooperation itself is one of the most highly valued skills in free software. To manage these projects is to engage in a kind of hypertrophied cooperation, where one's ability not only to work with others but to come up with new ways of working together can result in tangible benefits to the software and the community that develops it. This book attempts to describe the techniques by which this may be done. It is by no means complete, but it is at least a beginning. (more)

Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing"[1] with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use.[2] In other words, humans in literate societies have sets of practices for producing and consuming writing, and they also have beliefs about these practices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy (more)

ideas (more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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: 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)

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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!

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Current:

My Coding for fun.

Past:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billseitz/

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

My Coding

Oligarchy; 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

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