Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. One form of linguistic relativity, linguistic determinism, regards peoples' languages as determining and influencing the scope of cultural perceptions of their surrounding world... The hypothesis is in dispute, with many different variations throughout its history.[2][3] The strong hypothesis of linguistic relativity, now referred to as linguistic determinism, is that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and restrict cognitive categories. This was a claim by some earlier linguists pre-World War II;[4] since then it has fallen out of acceptance by contemporary linguists.[5][need quotation to verify] Nevertheless, research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting a weaker version of linguistic relativity:[4][5] that a language's structures influence a speaker's perceptions, without strictly limiting or obstructing them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.[1] Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage, speakers of different languages conceptualize and experience the world differently. This principle has frequently been called the "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis", after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to Einstein's principle of physical relativity.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lee_Whorf (more)

Text from a talk by John Gall at Tom Gilb's Gilbfest, London, UK, June 25'2012 (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)

Systems Thinking 1975 book by John Gall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics (more)

dolphin communicator, Altered States/Sensory Deprivation Tank guru, etc. (more)

A dolphin is a common name used for some of the aquatic mammals in the cetacean clade Odontoceti, the toothed whales. Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), along with the river dolphin families Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and probably extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin). There are 40 extant species named as dolphins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin

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)

Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian mobile application developer, founded in 2013 and based in Milan. The company is known primarily for iOS mobile apps, including Splice, 30 Day Fitness, Live Quiz, and Remini.[2] In November 2022, it agreed to acquire Evernote.[3] Bending Spoons is one of the world's leading mobile developers, by number of app downloads.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons (more)

Could one develop a useful Taxonomy of Business Contexts? (more)

Charles Duhigg (born 1974) is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He was a reporter for The New York Times. He currently writes for The New Yorker Magazine and is the author of three books: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business; Smarter Faster Better; and Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. In 2013, Duhigg was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of ten articles on the business practices of Apple and other technology companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duhigg

Teresa Torres: This Keystone Habit Will Fuel the Rest of Your Continuous Discovery Habits - Product Talk (more)

Teresa Torres: What a Good Continuous Discovery Team Looks Like [Case Study]. The opportunity solution tree was a BIG one. We use it at different places in the discovery and delivery cycle—sometimes daily, sometimes monthly. But at all times the tree is irreplaceable as a way to visually communicate all the discovery and thinking that goes into development and decision making. Stakeholders that used to throw curveballs into our sprints can now truly grasp the level of thinking (and testing) that has gone against our opportunities and are much less likely to interrupt our course. (more)

The Kano model is a theory for product management/development and customer satisfaction developed in the 1980s by Noriaki Kano. This model provides a framework for understanding how different features of a product or service impact customer satisfaction, allowing organizations to prioritize development efforts effectively. According to the Kano Model, customer preferences are classified into five distinct categories, each representing different levels of influence on satisfaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model (more)

Went up to Cooper Hewitt (Design museum) last weekend. (No, Victor Lombardi, not Cooper Union.) (more)

Ben Hunt on World War [AI]. How's that whole golden age thing going for you so far? That golden age of human leisure and wealth awaiting us in a world optimized for the thinking machines. Are you working a bit less today, enjoying the early fruits of all this 'AI productivity'? Or are you somehow working longer, more stressful hours than ever? (more)

Michael Green: Part 1: My Life Is a Lie. Markets, liquidity, factor models—none of these ever felt self-evident to me. Markets are mechanisms of price clearing. Mechanisms have parameters. Parameters distort outcomes. This is the lens through which I learned to see everything: find the parameter, find the distortion, find the opportunity. But there was one number I had somehow never interrogated. The poverty line. (more)

John Gall (September 18, 1925 – December 15, 2014) was an American author, scholar, and pediatrician.[1][2] Gall is known for his 1975 book General Systemantics: an essay on how systems work, and especially how they fail..., a critique of systems theory. One of the statements from this book has become known as Gall's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author) (more)

the real name of David Wong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Pargin (more)

see affordability, poverty, precarity, inflation