Corey Haines gave a talk at NCSA Sports. Some crude notes (very possibly mis-summarizing)... (more)

aka Pareto's Law. Management consultant Joseph Juran developed the concept in the context of quality control, and improvement, naming it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who noted the 80/20 connection while at the University of Lausanne in 1896.[4] In his first work, Cours d'économie politique, Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. The Pareto principle is only tangentially related to Pareto efficiency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle (more)

The inequality of A/B testing. Microsoft recently published a paper on the distribution of results from their A/B tests. (more)

Brian Marick: A circle-centric reading of software development through the 1990s, plus screech owls. Welcome to Oddly Influenced, a podcast about how people have applied ideas from outside software to software... Bonus episode: a circle-centric history of software engineering and the agile counterreaction, plus screech owls. (more)

g factor (psychometrics): Psychometric factor also known as "general intelligence"... The g factor typically accounts for 40 to 50 percent of the between-individual performance differences on a given cognitive test, and composite scores ("IQ scores") based on many tests are frequently regarded as estimates of individuals' standing on the g factor. (more)

Clive Thompson: Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t. Even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks. (ToDoList, Getting Things Done) (more)

see Pareto Principle

Microsoft's search engine

John Seely Brown and Estee Solomon Gray: The People Are the Company. Revolutions start in the most unexpected places and with the most unlikely heroes. Who would imagine that the conventional wisdom of the Industrial Age would be challenged by copier repair technicians - "tech reps" - at Xerox? (more)

William Gillis: Organizations Versus Getting Shit Done. (Getting Things Done) Organizations have a lot of downsides. Anyone who’s ever attended a meeting recognizes this on some level. And yet most folks persist in an either instinctive or confused idealization of forming and participating in organizations. (more)

book by Michael P Farrell ISBN:0226238679 (more)

life-time value (of a customer)

getting a product potential-customer to their first actual Use - see AARRR, Onboarding

Yelling is not journalism. IGN just released a video called “Baldur’s Gate 3 is causing some developers to panic.” (more)

Streaming Services Aren’t Hiding Hits. They Are Hiding Bombs. Companies are spending a lot of money on shows people aren’t watching. (more)

how happy your customers are with your offering - experience quality, is it compelling, etc.

aka product taste?

There's no typical series of Start Up growth stages. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: Develop Product Sense to Build Great Products. Product sense is the skill of consistently being able to craft products (or change existing products) that have the intended impact on their users. (more)

was CEO EverNote, then mmHmm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Libin