Jack Dorsey Mobile Payment system. (more)

someone "actively", "consciously" game-playing; vs NPC, acting dead; see esp (2018-03-14) Burja Live Versus Dead Players (more)

go away or I will replace you with a simple shell script! (more)

by James Carse ISBN:0345341848 (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Being Wrong. After a company achieves product/market-fit, things get complex. (more)

Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (ReST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding (more)

Back-justifying your decision-making. (more)

I'm not talking about "tools" as in software or pencils and graph paper. (But I'll reference those at the end of the page.) But rather philosophies, schools of thought, approaches to D-and-D in a New Economy, etc. (more)

aka Sales-led, contra product-led/product-driven

bad business strategy - see Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

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)

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)

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)