Teacher for programmers and BootStrapping One Man Show-s. (more)

Martin Cagan: Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled | Silicon Valley Product Group (more)

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Rosicrucianism (/ˌroʊzɪˈkruːʃəˌnɪzəm, ˌrɒzɪ-/) is a spiritual and cultural movement that arose in early modern Europe in the early 17th century after the publication of several texts announcing to the world a new esoteric order. Rosicrucianism is symbolized by the Rose Cross or Rosy Cross. There have been several Rosicrucian (or Rosicrucian-inspired) organizations since the initial movement was founded, including the Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross (1750s–1790s), the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (1865–present), and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1887–1903). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism

For cooking rice, where you can set/forget, and have it last for 3+ days so it's always available. (more)

people's ability and willingness to move (more)

Home Page of a site driven by Internet Marketing. (more)

Rob Walling 2010 book for the "Micropreneur" (One Man Show Lean Startup - either for BootStrapping or permanent Life Style Company). http://www.startupbook.net/ (more)

Aaron Swartz: Bake, Don’t Fry. I really got started with this whole Web mess with the ArsDigita Prize where I learned how to build database-backed websites by building one myself. (more)

Cedric Chin: The Amazon Weekly Business Review. You may need to read the previous essay — titled Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles — to get the most out of this one. That essay lays out the worldview that backs the WBR. Do that first. 2024-01-08-ChinBecomingDataDrivenFromFirstPrinciples (more)

Does an RDF triple really need to be a Quad? 2003-08-31-DumbillRdfQuad (more)

Observation Orientation Decision Action (Observation, Orientation (model?), Decision/Decision Making, Action) (more)

Andy Matuschak: Ratcheting progress in tools for thought. There are some people trying to develop tools for thought, but there isn’t yet a meaningful field around tools for thought. The difference is that a field is about ratcheting: developing a growing shared corpus of general knowledge and methods which allow projects to meaningfully build on each other, across researchers and across years, on and on in an upward cycle. (compounding) (more)

Andy Matuschak is trying to use SRS in multiple ways. (more)

The goal of this research project is to find data structures and interfaces that support synthesis and innovation in a decentralized discourse graph... Welcome to our living hypertext notebook. This notebook will continue to evolve going into the future and is by no means a finished product- as such, pages exist at varying stages of completion. https://scalingsynthesis.com/ (more)

Cortex Futura: The Seeds of Synthesis. in the end, a lot of what we do in academia or as knowledge workers more generally boils down to a continuous (iterative) cycle of questions and new information (more)

the combination/integration of ideas/arguments from previously-unrelated elements, sometimes through creativity, sometimes through dialectic.

Cedric Chin: When Action Beats Prediction. One of the big ideas that we’ve covered in the past couple of weeks is the notion that ‘management is prediction’ — the W. Edwards Deming observation that you cannot run your business effectively if you are unable to predict the outcomes of your actions (more)

A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dictum, "something said"[1]) or forecast is a statement about a future event or about future data. Predictions are often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge of forecasters. There is no universal agreement about the exact difference between "prediction" and "estimation"; different authors and disciplines ascribe different connotations. Future events are necessarily uncertain, so guaranteed accurate information about the future is impossible. Prediction can be useful to assist in making plans about possible developments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction

The Uncertainty Project is a constantly evolving, community-driven collection of research-backed models and tools that helps companies architect processes for effective decision making. Built by practitioners, for practitioners, this is meant to be a collection of building blocks; not a heavy, prescriptive framework. It enables individual managers, teams, as well as whole organizations to implement systematic decision making practices at varying levels of complexity. https://www.theuncertaintyproject.org/ (more)