A collection, typically of WebLog entries. Kinda like a Top Ic. Bigger buckets than KeyWord-s. (more)

David Pereira: Are You Doing Product Management or Bullshit Management? Product professionals become powerless because they are not the ones calling the shots. Top management believes in knowing best what to do and expecting product people to follow their orders. In reality, you start doing bullshit management instead of product management. At some point it becomes a Bullshit Job. (more)

part of Customer Development process, part of Product Discovery (more)

Ash Maurya: Problem/Solution Fit (not Product/Market Fit) is the first significant milestone of a startup. Getting to product/market fit (the inflection point in the hockey stick curve) takes roughly two years, and 80% of products never find it. (more)

Ash Maurya: Learn qualitatively, verify quantitatively. While methodologies like Lean Startup draw a comparison between science and entrepreneurship, the goals of scientists and entrepreneurs are quite different. (more)

Nick Denton qualifying Steven Den Beste's diatribe on Dealing With Terrorism. Steven says What they want is to stay with their traditional Culture and for it to be successful, and that isn't possible. We can make them rich through aid, but we can't make them successful because their failure is not caused by us, but by the deep flaws in their culture. Their culture cannot succeed. It is too deeply and fundamentally crippled... I am forthrightly stating that it will be necessary to destabilize the entire Middle East, which puts me exactly counter to European Foreign Policy. (more)

Ben Hunt: Joe Biden and the Common Knowledge Game. ....why coronations and executions are held in public – not so a crowd can see the new king or the hanged man, but so a crowd can see a crowd seeing the new king or the hanged man. Common knowledge is why sitcoms have laugh tracks, why American Idol has a live studio audience, and why professional sports teams pipe in crowd noise. (more)

Andy Matuschak: Are Tools for thought: science, design, art, craftsmanship? J.C.R. Licklider...If you want to help make good on this destiny—to invent human-computer interfaces which radically expand human cognition and creativity—then what do you actually need to do? How does progress happen? (more)

Ben Hunt: The Long Now, Pt. 2 - Make, Protect, Teach. Every three or four generations, humanity consumes itself with the fang and claw of fascism and collectivism. Every three or four generations, we eat our own. This is that time. This is the Long Now. 2019-07-31-HuntTheLongNowPt1Ticktock Today’s note is about my political response to the Long Now... I’m trying to provide an alternative to the abstracted world of narrative and cartoon that rules our mindfulness from the top down, in favor of a concreted world of actual human beings making things and protecting each other and teaching each other. (more)

Venkatesh Rao on Fifth-Generation Management, which doesn’t actually exist yet. The idea of generations in management, in the form I’m going to lay it out, is causally related to the idea of generations of warfare, and in particular the idea that contemporary styles of warfare strongly shape future styles of management (more)

Francis Fukuyama interviews Peter Thiel. (more)

Financialization is a term sometimes used to describe the development of financial capitalism during the period from 1980 to present, in which debt-to-equity ratios increased and financial services accounted for an increasing share of national income relative to other sectors. Financialization describes an economic process by which exchange is facilitated through the intermediation of financial instruments. Financialization may permit real goods, services, and risks to be readily exchangeable for currency, and thus make it easier for people to rationalize their assets and income flows. Financialization is tied to the transition from an industrial economy to a service economy, as financial services belong to the tertiary sector of the economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization (more)

Carlota Perez's Technological Revolutions And Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages ISBN:9781843763314, reading because Fred Wilson recommended it. (Published 2002!) (more)

When an "asset class" has a period of significant value increase driven not by rational supply/demand but by some UnSustainable lever. Which leads to a significant value drop when things change. (cf Crisis) (more)

HPMOR fan-fiction by taogaming https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11223914/1/Draco-Malfoy-and-the-Practice-of-Rationality (more)

David R. MacIver: Peer one-on-ones. One of the services I often provide is group coaching sessions. I get a small group of people, usually four, together and we talk about some shared problems they experience together. (more)

The Threat Of Automation Is A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. The production difficulties for the Tesla Model 3 are well-known, and form part of Elon Musk’s reputation as a visionary who sets overly ambitious goals that nonetheless inch us into the future. Beyond the insanity of the targets themselves, however, came poor management decisions that stemmed from Musk’s overestimation of automation (more)

cf product taste; mastery?

Kartik Agaram app: snap.love: a graph drawing tool https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love (more)

Geoffrey Litt on browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software. Browser extensions are a special ecosystem worth celebrating. (more)