Cedric Chin: The Deming Paradox: The Human Costs of Operational Rigour (rigor). This is an investigative note, and only nominally part of the Becoming Data Driven in Business series. (more)

‘The everything app’: why Elon Musk wants X (Twitter) to be a WeChat for the west. Daily life in Chinese cities is nearly impossible to navigate without WeChat, to the extent that being barred from the country’s super-app has been likened to a “digital death”. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Group Convergence. Groups as both a formal ActivityPub spec and general concept deeply invigorate me. I previously wrote about group-to-group following (FEP-d36d) as the missing glue layer to successfully transition /r/rust to the threadiverse. (more)

Cedric Chin: The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail. The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail — This week's essay is a summary of the 2023 book The Heart of Innovation, and gives us the answer to the mystery we set up about Vanguard in the previous instalment of the Understanding Customer Demand Series. (more)

Cedric Chin: Vanguard as a Demand-Side Mystery. At the end of Part 2, I presented you with the setup for a mystery: The two frameworks that we’ve explored together actually rests on a common premise: both frameworks assume that demand is a function of pain — a customer only becomes a customer when they experience some lack in their lives; something that they want to make progress on. (more)

Game Engine https://godotengine.org/ Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godot_(game_engine) (more)

Charlie Stross gave a keynote at USENIX with predictions for the 2061 future (assuming no Collapse, Singularity, or other Black Swan-s). Lots of opportunities for Huge Invention in there. (more)

First book from the Hieroglyph Project (more)

A promising non-hydrocarbon fuel source. (Alternative Energy) http://www.fuelcells.org/ (more)

Biogas typically refers to a gas produced by the biological breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Organic waste such as dead plant and animal material, animal dung, and kitchen waste can be converted into a gaseous fuel called biogas. Biogas originates from biogenic material and is a type of biofuel. (more)

Green hydrogen (GH2 or GH2) is hydrogen generated by renewable energy[1] or from low-carbon power.[2] Green hydrogen has significantly lower carbon emissions than grey hydrogen, which is derived from fossil fuels without carbon capture. Green hydrogen may be used to decarbonize sectors that are hard to electrify, such as cement and iron production. Green hydrogen can be used to produce green ammonia, the main constituent of synthetic fertilizer. It can also be used for long-duration grid energy storage,[3][4] and for long-duration seasonal energy storage.[5] As of 2021, green hydrogen accounted for less than 0.04% of total hydrogen production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_hydrogen

Hagbard Celine: Communication is possible only between equals. (power) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws#Celine.27s_Second_Law (more)

Made a FreeForm MindMap on the current RedVsBlue CultureWar: Social Media, Middle Class economics, or other? (more)

The eight-circuit model of consciousness (sometimes capitalized) is a theory in psychology, first proposed by Tim Leary. It consists of several quantum psychological systems that unify the various interpretations of the main altered states of consciousness into one coherent meta-theory. The most basic part describes, in a simple outline, eight circuits of information (colloquially "brains") that operate within the human nervous system. Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli have all written about each circuit in depth and how each operates in the lives of human beings, both individually and collectively. (e.g. "eight circuits of consciousness") (more)

Medscape. http://www.medscape.com/ (more)

increased profitability (ideally through compelling customer value-creation), reduced risk (more)

revenue less variable costs - can be expressed as a $/period or as a % of revenue (more)

Money Is Like Gasoline During A Road Trip, Tim O'Reilly says. "You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money." (2010-05-01) Tim Oreilly The Oracle Of Silicon Valley (more)

A skeuomorph (also spelled skiamorph, /ˈskjuːəˌmɔːrf, ˈskjuːoʊ-/)[1][2] is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original.[3] Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic purpose in the new system, except for identification. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal[4] and a software calendar (cf desktop GUI) that imitates the appearance of binding on a paper desk calendar.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

Steven Levy: Brian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night—and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything App. As Brian Chesky tells it, the reinvention of Airbnb started with the coup at OpenAI. On November 17, 2023, the board of OpenAI fired company CEO Sam Altman. His friend Chesky leapt into action—publicly defending his pal on X, getting on the phone with Microsoft’s CEO.... “I was so jacked up,” he says—turned his buzzing mind to his own company, Airbnb.... He wanted to bust the company he’d cofounded out of its pigeonhole of short-term home rentals. I guess this was made possible by (2023-09-09) Itamar Gilad On Linkedin Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management. (more)