Deming talk: Does anybody give a hoot about profit? On the afternoon of 11 July 1990, Dr W Edwards Deming gave a short presentation to some 25 executives from major European companies. This article provides an edited transcript of that presentation and the subsequent Question and Response Session. The presentation was structured around Dr Deming’s paper “A System of Profound Knowledge” (May 1990). (more)

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.[1][2] Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social sciences. Biological psychologists seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, linking the discipline to neuroscience. As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology

Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos book by Donald Wheeler ISBN:0945320531 (more)

person/role in an organization that's on-the-side, trying to spread/enforce process, rather than having direct accountability for results. See also Soft Skills.

Martin Cagan: Process People. For many years I’ve subscribed to the idea that in a product organization, there are essentially two types of contributors: makers and managers.... The only real question has been regarding product managers. (more)

aka product operations, but it sounds cooler if you call it "ops" like devops.

ability to get things done, right

masterpiece? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Work

Mergers And Acquisition

aka user acquisition - part of funnel (see AARRR) where you first "get" a user - you could define that as site-visit, or email-address-collect (more)

Sales Funnel Metrics - Acquisition, Activation, Retention (esp Bounce rate), Referral, Revenue - 2007-12-31-McclurePirateMetrics (more)

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Functions Everywhere, Only Once: Writing Functions for the Everywhere Computer. Written by Fission's Brian Ginsburg and Zeeshan Lakhani.... The Everywhere Computer is a decentralized platform that aims to distribute computational tasks across a vast, open network. This network spans from your personal machine to other devices on your LAN, a cluster of cloud nodes, and even to PoPs (points of presence) located at the edge of the Internet. (more)

popular: Pop culture (more)

Maple syrup is a sweet syrup made from the sap of maple trees. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in late winter and early spring. Maple trees are tapped by drilling holes into their trunks and collecting the sap, which is heated to evaporate much of the water, leaving the concentrated syrup. Maple syrup was first made by the Indigenous peoples of Northeastern North America. The practice was adopted by European settlers, who gradually changed production methods. Technological improvements in the 1970s further refined syrup processing. Almost all of the world's maple syrup is produced in Canada and the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup (more)

when (almost) everyone who wants a DayJob can get one (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #121 Part 2: The OpenAI Files. You can find Part 1 here. This resumes the weekly, already in progress. The primary focus here is on the future, including policy and alignment, but also the other stuff typically in the back half like audio, and more near term issues like ChatGPT driving an increasing number of people crazy. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #121 Part 1: New Connections. That’s right. I said Part 1. The acceleration continues. I do not intend to let this be a regular thing. I will (once again!) be raising the bar for what gets included going forward to prevent that. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 362: How (And Why) We Help. What if, in your attempt to help, you're hurting yourself and maybe even others? Can the outcome still be wrong if it meets the needs of the majority? (more)

Tyler Cowen: Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems. Tyler sat down with Patrick to discuss signature fields on the back of credit cards, whether bank tellers or waitstaff are more trustworthy, the gremlins behind spurious credit card declines, how debt collection and maple syrup heists should change your model of the world, Twitter’s continued success as the message bus for government and civil society, crypto vs traditional money transfers, the intended desolation of bank parking lots, why he moved to Japan and how it affected his ambition, why Tether hasn’t collapsed, the internet as a Great Work, how he’s experiencing reverse culture shock after returning to the US, what he’ll learn about next, and more. (more)