the eventual output of systems thinking

Attempts to think about Systems And Games. (more)

Yancey Strickler post: HOW TO LONG GAME 1. THERE IS NO SHORT GAME, ONLY LONG GAME. SHORT GAME IS TOURISM. LONG GAME IS LIVING THERE. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: My biggest takeaways from Stewart Butterfield. (more)

Priya Mathew Badger: How to Prototype an AI feature. This flow allows any PM to go from a simple idea to a prototype of an AI powered feature with no coding to understand the basics of how AI features work. (more)

The illusion of control is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control events; for example, it occurs when someone feels a sense of control over outcomes that they demonstrably do not influence.[1] The effect was named by psychologist Ellen Langer and has been replicated in many different contexts.[2] It is thought to influence gambling behavior and belief in the paranormal.[3] Along with illusory superiority and optimism bias, the illusion of control is one of the positive illusions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control (all models are wrong, but some are useful) (more)

Summary: create multiple short consistent documents of your current business strategy/product strategy, to help people throughout the organization make decisions, generate ideas, etc. (more)

Traditional "management", even most software product management, is Industrial-Age Command-and-Control thinking that is net-negative for managing creatives. We need a re-framing of Agile Software Development with a business-building software Product Development mindset. Rapidly Iterative based on FeedBack. A bit post-Lean-Startup. Product-Led, Customer-Driven. (more)

Empowered Product Team - Martin Cagan frame. (more)

A team (esp product team) that includes people performing all the functions necessary to deliver an increment. Also called empowered product team. (more)

group that does Team Work together on Product Development (ideally an empowered product team doing Agile Product Development) or D And D (more)

Jeff Gothelf: (Management) Ego killed the empowered product team. By now you’ve most certainly read Martin Cagan’s article on Product teams vs Feature Teams. ((2019-08-29) Cagan Product Vs Feature Teams) (more)

I created A Diagram of Effects of the AntiPatterns in a Product/Dev Team in Miro. Making agile product development unlikely. (more)

model/structure of multiple metrics for your organization; see esp Schmidt Backlinks below, incl (2023-11-16) Schmidt Input Metrics Are So Hard That Most Product Teams Give Up (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Input metrics are so hard that most product teams give up. Teams can’t usually launch a product or marketing update and immediately see the business impact. They need input metrics to measure the results of their efforts. (more)

Practice of driving a Product Team via the Feedback of a single metric. (more)

Project-oriented Roadmaps are counter-productive for Software Product Teams. (more)

The Croquet Project is an international effort to promote the continued development of Croquet, an open source software platform, a network Operating System, for developing and delivering deeply collaborative multi-user online applications (Collaboration Ware). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project https://croquet.io/ (more)

Gordon Brander concept-note-taking-app, called just "subconscious" (used to be "Mem"). Track his thinking via https://subconscious.substack.com/ and https://github.com/gordonbrander/subtext (more)

Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that provides a range of internet services, including content delivery network (CDN) services, cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, wide area network services, reverse proxies, Domain Name Service, ICANN-accredited[3] and domain registration.[4][5][6] Cloudflare's headquarters are in San Francisco, California.[4] According to W3Techs, Cloudflare is used by around 19.3% of all websites on the Internet for its web security services, as of January 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare (more)