In doing Agile Product Development, there can be a tension between a "top-down" (I don't mean exec-driven, I mean mental-stack) Product Vision/Product Strategy/Conceptual Integrity and an incremental/iterative process of Thinking In Bets. (more)

Erik Hoel: Ambitious theories of consciousness are not "scientific misinformation". Yesterday over one hundred scientists, many prominent or even world-famous, debuted a signed letter declaring that one of the most popular scientific theories of consciousness is “pseudoscience.” The letter is directed at Integrated Information Theory (IIT) (more)

Bernie Sanders Assails Democrats for Not Endorsing Mamdani. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Saturday assailed Democratic leaders for their refusal to support Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayor’s race and called him the “future of the Democratic Party.” (more)

Lina Khan: A Secret to Zohran Mamdani’s Success. One of the most underappreciated aspects of Zohran Mamdani’s successful primary campaign for New York City mayor was its connection to small business. He stopped by halal carts and bodegas and asked what challenges they faced. It is the kind of outreach that teaches policymakers about real problems in our economy and can help build trust and lasting relationships. (more)

Mike Solana: The Abundance Delusion. Back in July, following an eight-month fetishization of Luigi Mangione on the far left, another gunman in New York City killed several people, including a mother of two school-age kids who happened to work at—uh-oh—Blackstone (more)

Brink Lindsey is an American political writer, and Vice President and Director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center.[1] Previously he was the Cato Institute's vice president for research.[2] From 1998 to 2004, he was director of Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies,[3] focusing on free trade, and also editor of Cato Unbound, a monthly web magazine. He was a senior fellow with the Kauffman Foundation from 2010 to 2012.[2] An attorney with a background in international trade regulation, Lindsey was formerly director of regulatory studies at Cato and senior editor of Regulation magazine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink_Lindsey (more)

The Niskanen Center is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that advocates market-oriented principles regarding environmentalism,[3] immigration reform, civil liberties, and an effective welfare state.[4][5] Named after William A. Niskanen, an economic adviser to Ronald Reagan and former chairman of the Cato Institute, it states that its "main audience is Washington insiders",[6] and characterizes itself as moderate,[7] with others calling it centrist.[8] The organization has been credited with fostering bipartisan dialogue and promoting pragmatic solutions to contemporary political challenges on issues such as family benefits, climate change, and criminal justice reform.[9] Though founded as a libertarian think tank, the center has since publicly rejected libertarianism[10] and supported proposals such as universal health-care coverage[11] and increasing state capacity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niskanen_Center

Arnold Kling on the differing wings/Coalition-s of the Democratic Party, and where Libertarian perspectives fit with each. HealthCare, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, etc. (more)

Chris Nolan identified a group back in April she calls Progressive Libertarian - Progressive for their good-hearted desire to change and order their world, Libertarian for their cold-eyed faith in the bottom line. (Dynamist, Liberaltarian) (more)

Group blog thinking about investment management and reality. https://www.epsilontheory.com/ (more)

Abortion-rights movements, also self-styled as pro-choice movements, are movements that advocate for legal access to induced abortion services, including elective abortion. They seek to represent and support women who wish to terminate their pregnancy without fear of legal or social backlash. These movements are in direct opposition to anti-abortion movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-rights_movement

Supreme Court decision supporting right to Abortion (right to choose, pro-choice) (more)

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.[7][8] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.[7] Designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Act sought to secure the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 (see related Civil Rights Act of 1964; undermined in 2013 by ShelbyCounty v Holder) (more)

Venkatesh Rao: So You Think You're Customer-Driven? I've made no secret of my strongly partisan belief that being product-driven is a far superior stance than being customer-driven, but I've never properly unpacked why I think that. Here's the main reason: To be product-driven you merely have to be a talented person in a specific narrow and easily testable way. But to be genuinely customer-driven, you have to be a better person in a hard-to-test way. Add to that my priors that talent is common, but genuine good character is rare, and you'll understand why I have the bias I do. (more)

Merve Emre: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Gimmicks. What is in a word as minor as “gimmick”? For Sianne Ngai, a professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author of “Theory of the Gimmick” (Harvard), the answer is: everything, or at least everything to do with the art consumed and produced under capitalism. (more)

Novelty (derived from Latin word novus for "new") is the quality of being new, or following from that, of being striking, original or unusual.[1] Novelty may be the shared experience of a new cultural phenomenon or the subjective perception of an individual... The term can have pejorative sense and refer to a mere innovation. However, novelty in patent law is part of the legal test to determine whether an invention is patentable.[5] A novelty effect is the tendency for performance to initially improve when new technology is instituted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty (more)

Derek Thompason on 1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind. “Automobilism is an illness, a mental illness. This illness has a pretty name: speed... [Man] can no longer stand still, he shivers, his nerves tense like springs, impatient to get going once he has arrived somewhere because it is not somewhere else, somewhere else, always somewhere else.” - Octave Mirbeau, French novelist, 1910 (more)

book by Maggie Bullock ISBN:0063042649 about J. Crew (more)

DerekSivers: Cut out everything that’s not surprising. This is my advice to anyone writing something for the public — especially a talk on stage. (more)