See Conversation Theory

Brian Clark had a "Teaching Sells" process for building HowTo-focused Paid Site-s (Business Models For Information), which he teaches over a 12-week period for $1000. (more)

Even when entire groups are ostensibly completely excluded from the state's traditional networks of power (on the basis of arbitrary criteria such as gender, nobility, race, religion or poverty), elite theory recognizes that "counter-elites" frequently develop within such excluded groups.[3] Negotiations between such disenfranchised groups and the state can be analyzed as negotiations between elites and counter-elites. A major problem, in turn, is the ability of elites to co-opt counter-elites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_theory (more)

Elegance is beauty that shows unusual effectiveness and simplicity... In engineering, a solution may be considered elegant if it uses a non-obvious method to produce a solution which is highly effective and simple. An elegant solution may solve multiple problems at once, especially problems that are not thought to be inter-related.[6] Elegance can arguably be measured for engineering problems as the ratio of problem complexity to that of solution complexity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegance

Joe Procopio: The Theme for 2025 Is Simplification. (Simplest Thing) I keep talking about these seismic shifts in startup land (and tech land and general business land). (more)

a change in the zeitgeist vibe, coined by Sean Monahan Nov'2021, referencing this Dean Kissick tweet (see also (2021-06-10) Notes On Dean Kissick's One Path For The Internet). (more)

notes on Dean Kissick’s "One Path for the Internet". again. I made the mistake of subscribing to Sean monahan’s substack to see what the boomer trend forecasters were saying (rip khole, you were relevant like multiple extinctions ago) and not only had to see it, but had to hate-read a mind-numbingly horrible take about it. Incredibly fucking stupid, masochistic thing to do on my end, but anyway – Monahan writes: “This post won’t be an explanation of the meme. If you want to know what it means Google the words, look up the accounts, consume the associated content. Instead, I want to point out that the general anxiety the meme has engendered is evidence of a vibe shift” (more)

Whisper is a proprietary iOS and Android mobile app available without charge, which says that it allows users to send messages anonymously, and to receive replies.[1][2][3][4] Users post messages which are displayed as text superimposed over an image, similar to greeting cards.[5] The app was launched in March 2012 under the original name Whisper Text by CEO Michael Heyward and Brad Brooks, who is the CEO of mobile messaging service Tiger Text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_(app)

see Individual Contributor

aka IC, someone who directly performs a function (like product management or software development), possibly at an advanced level, rather than becoming management

a startup started/grown without OPM - bootstrapped, using organic growth

Jason Cohen: Excuse me, is there a problem? Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. (more)

Jason Cohen on Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data. Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit – both self-funded and VC-funded – exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences. (more)

Robin Rendle: Design ain’t a democracy. Democracies are the worst way to build a product. This is the reason why most tech companies are slow and ineffective: managers aren’t really there to make decisions, set a vision, or settle disputes. These sorts of organizations are designed explicitly not to make decisions as there’s no one you can point to in an organization who can say yes or no to an idea. (Product Team Members Report To The Team Leader) (more)

a British designer, writer, and typographic nuisance from San Francisco https://robinrendle.com/

Allison Davis: A Vibe Shift Is Coming. ...my friend Ellen messaged me: “Okay, please let me know if this person is dumb. But this stressed me out this morning.” She dropped a link to something titled “Vibe Shift,” an entry from a Substack called 8Ball, which turned out to be the weekly newsletter of a trend-forecasting consultancy founded by Sean Monahan. Previously, Monahan had helped found the now-defunct art collective K-HOLE (more)

Joe Procopio: Why Ageism Is Accepted In Tech. With all the talk about recent ugly issues in the modern workplace, you’d think there’d be a huge uptick in the ageism discussion category (more)

Sean Monahan on the vibe shift. (more)

Anya Savina: Yet another vibe shift with Sean Monahan. This week, I got a chance to chat with writer and K-HOLE co-founder Sean Monahan about his latest trend report for 8Ball, Live Players. ((2023-11-30) Monahan Live Players) (more)

Joe Procopio: Is It Time for the Tech Industry to Rethink Product Management? Going forward, product people are going to have to learn to do more with less, maybe even with nothing. I’m done. I’m out. I’ve lost the battle for the heart and soul of product management (more)