The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP26, was the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference, held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 13 November 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference

Government subsidy of fossil fuels continue, despite accelerating climate change.

Jeffrey Leonard: Energy subsidies (Subsidy) are the sordid legacy of more than sixty years of politics as usual in Washington, and they cost us somewhere around $20 billion a year... Energy subsidies take many forms. Some of them are direct outlays of taxpayer dollars, like payments to corn producers for Ethanol. Most are in the form of tax benefits, such as the deduction for “intangible drilling costs” (labor, repairs, hauling, you name it) in oil exploration—a notoriously abused provision of the tax code. The sheer number of subsidies is part of what makes them so hard to track. (more)

Combining a number of offerings/features that could be sold separately into a single purchase. e.g. CableCo. cf UnBundling

dismantling a collection/entity (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Junk Fees, Bundling and Unbundling. Joe Biden harped on junk fees during the State of the Union. While I do not think it is the problem of our time, I take things in the reference class of resort fees, or fees to have adjacent seats on an airplane, and other such unbundling (and bundling) surprisingly seriously. I am putting up my thoughts here so I have a reference to fall back upon. (more)

Gordon Brander: Tools for thought should evolve building blocks. Goldberg’s paper is about designing genetic algorithms (GAs), but the patterns he identifies reveal deep insights about innovation in general. They also suggest new ways of thinking about tools for thought. Let's unpack! (more)

iCloud sucks and it really shouldn’t. iCloud is great when it works. Seamless. You don’t notice it’s there. But it’s dire when it fails (more)

Made-For-Advertising Websites Are Still Harming Advertisers (Exclude These 280+ Sites Now). the focus of a Made-For-Advertising website is to get the user to click or view as many ads as possible on their page. (more)

A decent career path is to join a soft Product Team (more)

meditation-adjacent (more)

Note-maker, map-maker (MOCs). LYT Kit. TV editing (Better Call Saul, AE), Pink Gloves Boxing. PREV: engineer, college FB all-american, 3x national champ, coach. https://twitter.com/NickMilo/ (more)

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base (PKM?) that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. https://obsidian.md/ (Note-taking app) (more)

Perhaps the opposite of a WikiBook. The idea is to write the book in a Wiki (maybe a public WikiLog, maybe a Private Wiki), then produce a "packaged" EBook file (for Marketing purposes). (more)

Julian Bleecker will be running a GeneralSeminar session on "Futures of Human Organization". (more)

Fiction which uses Design objects to make a future scenario (not just SciFi) more believable/natural. (more)

Ash Maurya: Crafting Attention-Grabbing Unique Value Propositions (UVP). The first battle for any product is getting noticed by customers. This isn’t the job of your demo or solution but your unique value proposition (UVP). (more)

Ash Maurya: Do You Really Have Product/Market Fit? The reason it’s critical to determine whether a given product is pre-PMF or post-PMF is because there is a marked flip in 80/20 focus after this transition — from getting the product right to growing the product. (more)

Cybernetics-based BigGov experiment? (more)

Tired of Dating Apps (dating market), Some Turn to Google Docs. Writers of so-called Date-Me Docs, which can read like 1,000-word versions of the personal ads of yore, hope for a more meaningful connection than a swipe might allow. (more)