book by Steven Johnson ISBN:1594489254 (more)

Networked Non-Market Inventions: Steven Johnson framing/quadrant from Where Good Ideas Come From (more)

Steven Johnson book, ISBN:978-1-59448-771-2. This 2010 book adduces seven conditions (patterns) that enable discoveries and inventions (Huge Invention, Breakthrough, Generative), each of which gets its own chapter. (more)

Steven Johnson's 2012 book Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age ISBN:1594488207 (more)

stock in a company held by employees (founds and others) (more)

Amazon rule to keep teams as Small Teams. (more)

Donald Trump phrase/supporter

Brink Lindsey sees Libertarian folks moving from Republican to Democratic parties. Libertarian-leaning voters started drifting away from the GOP even before Katrina, civil war in Iraq, and Mark Foley launched the general stampede. (more)

John Higgs: The High Priest and the Great Beast: Timothy Leary's Belief That He Was a 'Continuation' of Aleister Crowley. In 1972 Dr. Tim Leary picked up a pack of Aleister Crowley-designed tarot cards and asked them the question, “Who am I and what is my destiny?” He then cut the pack and found the Ace of Discs, the card that Crowley believed represented himself (more)

Behind the walls of Andy Warhol’s secretive Factory. Stephen Shore, who quietly documented the glittering figures of Andy Warhol’s Factory between 1965 and 1967, has to go down in history as the least fazed 17-year-old boy to have ever come into contact with extremely cool people. As the influential photographer recalls in Factory: Andy Warhol, the just-published treatise by Phaidon, he was granted permission to take photographs of Warhol and his inner circle by simply walking up to the artist and asking if he could.

Tales From the Andy Warhol Factory. He went into Pop Art because he saw that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein started to get all that attention. (more)

On Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History. We chose a chronology of IID projects and approaches rather than a deep comparative analysis. (more)

Tom Gilb (full name "Thomas Steven Gilb", born 1940) is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes... He is known for his early work on evolutionary software development processes[1] from 1968 to 1981, which was a forerunner of agile software development methods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Gilb

original Extreme Programming project - aka C3

The term is also used in software engineering, where a retrospective is a meeting held by a project team at the end of a project or process (often after an iteration) to discuss what was successful about the project or time period covered by that retrospective, what could be improved, and how to incorporate the successes and improvements in future iterations or projects. Retrospective can be done in many different ways. The Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki is a resource for sharing retrospective plans, tips & tricks, tools and ideas to help us get the most out of our retrospectives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective#Software_development (cf Incident Analysis, Learning Organization, post-mortem) (more)

Martin Cagan: Visiontyping and the Hands-On Executive. Executives that are deeply involved in the company’s products... the executive meets frequently with the product team, sharing his thoughts and ideas, looking at prototypes and the results of user testing, providing encouragement and inspiration, and being open to new information and new approaches that move the idea forward. (more)

Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, UN says. Global plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, according to a report from the UN Environment Programme (Unep). The changes needed are major, but are also practical and affordable, the agency said. (more)

Paul Polman: Plastics are in our air, food, and water. A reckoning is coming–and smart businesses can see it. Plastic waste is set to treble by 2060. Globally, only 9% is successfully recycled. The rest is mostly incinerated or ends up as landfill, or pollution in our oceans and environment. (more)

Steve Yegge: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat. Everyone making SaaS on LLMs, including coding assistants like Cody and Copilot, was rocked by the AI news events of last week. (more)

UN Member States are currently negotiating a legally-binding, international agreement on plastics that will address the entire life cycle of plastics, from design to production and disposal...The second meeting of the negotiating committe (INC-2) will take place in Paris, France from May 29, 2023 through June 2, 2023....Until the end of 2024, three more meetings are planned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_plastic_pollution_treaty