Steven Levy: A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge. ..republish a long piece I wrote 30 years ago...The piece first appeared in Harper’s, November 1984. (more)

Jacob Falkovich: How to Choose a Goddess (Using a Spreadsheet). (Dating market). The Why and How of Matrixcraft (more)

Jason Cohen: What makes a business strategy great. These are the characteristics of great strategy. Strategy is: How we will win. (cf Good Strategy/Bad Strategy) (more)

Dorian Taylor: Spreadsheet Rantifesto. The spreadsheet as the go-to data structure is so lamentable. In general, I never want data as it comes in a spreadsheet. I almost always want it as a graph, or at least a tree. Graphs and trees—at least ordered trees like XML or JSON—can embed tabular data, such as that found in a spreadsheet, but the same cannot be said for the other way around. (more)

even shorter than Positioning Statement, customer-targeted (more)

The roadmap for Product/Market Fit… maybe. This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas. (more)

John Cutler: Great One-Pagers. I have always been a fan of one-pagers — short, space-constrained, descriptions of a proposed product bet. A single page is something that you can put up on a wall for everyone to see. It takes between 3–6 minutes to read. (cf Amazon Meeting Memo, Experiment) (more)

Donald Arthur Norman (born December 25, 1935)[2][3] is an American researcher, professor, and author. Norman is the director of The Design Lab at University of California, San Diego.[4] He is best known for his books on design, especially The Design of Everyday Things. He is widely regarded for his expertise in the fields of design, usability engineering, and cognitive science,[4] and has shaped the development of the field of cognitive systems engineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Norman (more)

Anu Atluru: Great Products Have Great Premises. The most powerful thing a product can do is give its user a premise... A premise is not just a purpose, unique value proposition, or marketing hook (tagline). But sometimes, it can be embedded in each of these too. (more)

Eli Goldratt book about retail - ISBN:0884271943 ASIN:B00408ALES (more)

Originator of the Theory Of Constraints. (more)

Alopex on Engineering Productivity (more)

Jess Martin: Copilot and Conversational Programming. A month ago, I got a demo of GitHub's Copilot and I've been pondering the implications. Here's what I've realized: Copilot will change what it means to be a programmer. (more)

Simon Willison: Training nanoGPT entirely on content from my blog. This is a follow-up to Running nanoGPT on a MacBook M2 to generate terrible Shakespeare. I used nanoGPT by Andrej Karpathy to train a GPT model entirely against content from my blog! (more)

JavaScript object notation (more)

iPermie! How to Permaculture Your Urban Lifestyle - Bob Waldrop - 2012 (more)

Open source guide to building full-stack apps using Serverless and React (Serverless Stack) https://branchv125--serverless-stack.netlify.app/ (more)

SST is a framework that makes it easy to build modern full-stack applications on AWS. Deploy a serverless Next.js, Svelte, Remix, Astro, or Solid app to your AWS account and add any backend feature to it. https://sst.dev/

Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.[2][3] Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit tens of thousands of conservatives to Washington, D.C., to replace existing federal civil service workers it characterizes as the "deep state", to further the objectives of the next Republican president.[4] Although participants in the project cannot promote a specific presidential candidate, many have close ties to Donald Trump and the Trump 2024 presidential campaign.[5] The plan would perform a swift takeover of the entire executive branch under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory — a theory proposing the president of the United States has absolute power over the executive branch — upon inauguration.[6] The development of the plan is led by the The Heritage Foundation, an American conservative think tank, in collaboration with over 100 partners including Turning Point USA led by Charlie Kirk; the Conservative Partnership Institute including former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows as senior partner; the Center for Renewing America led by former Trump-appointee Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought; and America First Legal led by former Trump Senior Advisor Stephen Miller... The plan proposes slashing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) funding, dismantling the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, gutting environmental (EPA) and climate change regulations to favor fossil fuel production, and eliminating the cabinet Departments of Education and Commerce.[9] Citing an anonymous source, The Washington Post reported Project 2025 includes immediately invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and directing the DOJ to pursue Trump adversaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

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