Zvi Mowshowitz on More Dakka. Eliezer Yudkowsky's book Inadequate Equilibria is excellent. I recommend reading it, if you haven't done so... My hope here is to offer both another concrete path to finding such opportunities, and additional justification of the central role of social control (as opposed to object-level concerns) in many modest actions and modesty arguments. (more)

aka Seasonal Affect Disorder (more)

A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google instant messaging apps. Google Talk, Google's first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed. But thanks to a decade and a half of nearly constant strategy changes, competing product launches, and internal sabotage, you can't say Google has a dominant or even stable instant messaging platform today. (more)

Vivek Paul "Vic" Gundotra (born 14 June 1969) is an Indian-born American businessman who served as the Senior Vice President, Social for Google until 24 April 2014.[1][2][3] Prior to joining Google, he was a general manager at Microsoft.... On 11 November 2015, Vic Gundotra announced on his Google+ profile[12] that he was joining AliveCor as its CEO.[13] On 17 January, 2019 it was reported that he was stepping down from AliveCor for personal reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Gundotra (more)

Perceptual learning is learning better perception skills such as differentiating two musical tones from one another or categorizations of spatial and temporal patterns relevant to real-world expertise. Examples of this may include reading, seeing relations among chess pieces, and knowing whether or not an X-ray image shows a tumor... As our perceptual system adapts to the natural world, we become better at discriminating between different stimuli when they belong to different categories than when they belong to the same category. We also tend to become less sensitive to the differences between two instances of the same category.[17] These effects are described as the result of categorical perception. Categorical perception effects do not transfer across domains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_learning cf Tacit Knowledge

Kathy Sierra product goal: Oct'2012 talk: Now some of you may know I used to say words like “user AweSome ” or “user Kicking Ass” (Kick-Ass) or “user Passionate ” I don’t really tend to use those words anymore because it’s really easy to misinterpret that as yet another “we made the customer feel good” or ‘he likes us.” It’s too easy to focus back on the company again. This isn’t about focusing on what the user thinks of you. It’s about what the user is able to do, and to be able to become Bad-Ass. (more)

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scifi sub-genre that see Optimistic future driven by Solar Energy (more)

Cedric Chin: The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail. Let me tell you a startup horror story. If you’ve been around startups for long enough, you’re likely to recognise this narrative (more)

Dorian Taylor: Motivation & Rationale. (for Summer of Protocols) The problem that I'm trying to solve—or at least contribute in some small way to a solution—has been notoriously hard to articulate... (more)

Cedric Chin: Speedrunning the Skill of Demand. This is Part 1 in a series of essays about Customer Demand. Skill at understanding demand is what underpins the domain of marketing, sales, and product. There’s an old Peter Drucker saying that goes “the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer” (Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business) (more)

Ash Maurya: What is a Job-To-Be-Done (JTBD) – Love the Problem. Even after all this research, two things continue to bother me (more)

One doctor’s campaign to stop a covid-19 vaccine being rushed through before Election Day. Topol, who works at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and is one of the country’s most prominent doctors, aimed to prevent Trump from greenlighting a vaccine before scientists could prove it to be safe and effective. To Topol, developing an effective vaccine against covid-19 is “the biggest event in our generation” and one that should be evaluated on the basis of scientific data, not political implications. (more)

Book (2004) by Jane Jacobs ISBN:1400062322 (more)

Eric Jeffrey Topol (born June 26, 1954)[1] is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute,[2] a professor of Molecular Medicine and Executive Vice-President at Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. He has published four bestseller books on the future of medicine:[3] The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2010), The Patient Will See You Now (2015), Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019), and Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity (2025). He was commissioned by the UK from 2018–2019 to lead planning for the National Health Service's future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Topol (more)

In economics, Jevons paradox is a paradox about resource usage. It is also called Jevons effect, after William Stanley Jevons who first observed it in 1865. Jevons observed that the steam engine James Watt had developed was much more efficient that the earlier model of Thomas Newcomen. Despite this, the use of coal in England increased. The improvements James Watt had introduced made coal a cheap source of energy. As a consequence, Watt's steam engine was more popular, and its use was more widespread. So even though each steam engine used less coal, the demand for coal increased, as there were more steam engines. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Steve Yegge thinks he knows what the Next Big Programming Language will be. But he won't name it, just gives some requirements. In the comments, lots of people think it's JavaScript. (more)

Gina Trapani of Postlight: Ten Technologies to Know in 2020. Here are 10 of the technologies, terms, and tools to know about in 2020. (more)

Cedric Chin: Much Ado About The OODA Loop. Any discussion about fast adaptation in response to uncertainty should probably begin with John Boyd and the OODA Loop. (more)

a Jobs to be Done guy https://jtbd.info/ (more)