see Quantity Beats Quality

Jeremiah Lee: Spotify's Failed #SquadGoals. Spotify doesn’t use “the Spotify model” and neither should you. (more)

Bruce Hoffman on a creative way of Dealing With Terrorism. So approximately a hundred of these beautiful young women were brought to Beirut. There, in a sort of PLO version of a college mixer, boy met girl, boy fell in love with girl, boy would, it was hoped, marry girl. There was an additional incentive, designed to facilitate not just amorous connections but long-lasting relationships. The hundred or so Black Septemberists were told that if they married these women, they would be paid $3,000; given an apartment in Beirut with a gas stove, a refrigerator, and a television; and employed by the PLO in some nonviolent capacity. Any of these couples that had a baby within a year would be rewarded with an additional $5,000. Both Abu Iyad and the future general worried that their scheme would never work. But, as the general recounted, without exception the Black Septemberists fell in love, got married, settled down, and in most cases started a family. To make sure that none ever strayed, the two men devised a test. Periodically, the former terrorists would be handed legitimate passports and asked to go to the organization's offices in Geneva or Paris or some other city on genuine nonviolent PLO business. But, the general explained, not one of them would agree to travel abroad, for fear of being arrested and losing all that they had - that is, being deprived of their wives and children. "And so," my host told me, "that is how we shut down Black September and eliminated terrorism. It is the only successful case that I know of." (more)

the root/main page of a website: see also Splash Page, Landing Page

Google Forms is a survey administration software included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google... The app allows users to create and edit surveys online while collaborating with other users in real-time. The collected information can be automatically entered into a spreadsheet.[1] Google Forms was first introduced in 2008 as part of the Google Docs suite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Forms

Postlight built a custom CRM with AirTable. (more)

how you expect to deliver value to a (potential) customer; see esp Unique Value Proposition

Unique Value Proposition, aka UVP: kinda like a Tag-Line, more terse (and outward-directed) than a Positioning Statement (more)

for AI-coding tool, see/also cursor.com

Patrick McKenzie: It’s only very probably as big as the Internet, which I believe is the crowning achievement of the human race. ((2024-09-30) ZviM AI And The Technological Richter Scale) (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: How Linear builds product. Linear.app is a story I’ve been wanting to tell for a long time. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: Identify your bullseye customer in one day. Today, my guest is Michael Margolis. Michael has been a UX researcher at Google Ventures for almost 15 years. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: What’s in your stack: The state of tech tools in 2025... insights from over 6,500 of you... 50% work in product, 11% are engineers, 10% are founders, and the rest work in other cross-functional roles, including marketing, design, and growth. (product team) (more)

Walter Wink (May 21, 1935 – May 10, 2012) was an American Biblical scholar, theologian, and activist who was an important figure in Progressive Christianity. Wink spent much of his career teaching at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. He was well known for his advocacy of and work related to nonviolent resistance and his seminal works on "The Powers", Naming the Powers (1984), Unmasking the Powers (1986), Engaging the Powers (1992), When the Powers Fall (1998), and The Powers that Be (1999), all of them commentaries on the Apostle Paul's ethic of spiritual warfare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wink (more)

René Noël Théophile Girard (/ʒɪəˈrɑːrd/;[2] French: [ʒiʁaʁ]; 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. Although the reception of his work is different in each of these areas, there is a growing body of secondary literature on his work and his influence on disciplines such as literary criticism, critical theory, anthropology, theology, mythology, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and philosophy. Girard's main contribution to philosophy, and in turn to other disciplines, was in the psychology of desire. Girard claimed that human desire functions imitatively, or mimetically, rather than arising as the spontaneous byproduct of human individuality, as much of theoretical psychology had assumed. Girard proposed that human development proceeds triangularly from a model of desire that indicates some object of desire as desirable by desiring it themselves. We copy this desire for the object of the model and appropriate it as our own, most often without recognizing that the source of this desire comes from another apart from ourselves completing the triangle of mimetic desire. This process of appropriation of desire includes (but is not limited to) identity formation, the transmission of knowledge and social norms, and material aspirations which all have their origin in copying the desires of others who we take, consciously or unconsciously, as models for desire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard

Welfare for old people who already have money. :) (more)

a HealthCare government-assistance program (more)

I occasionally joke about the return of US secession, given the re-warmed Cold-Civil War. (more)

The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679),[1] abbreviated GDPR, is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and human rights law, in particular Article 8(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It also governs the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA. The GDPR's goals are to enhance individuals' control and rights over their personal information and to simplify the regulations for international business.[2] It supersedes the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and, among other things, simplifies the terminology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation ISBN:9781804291245 (more)