see Behavior-Driven Development

alternative to Test Driven Development? (more)

a big global economic power, despite only-slowly-improving transparency/correction of various mistakes (more)

small-and-medium-sized businesses (more)

A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metropolitan region, metro area or just metro, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing: industry, infrastructure, and housing.[1] A metro area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, cities, exurbs, counties, districts, states, and even nations like the eurodistricts. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions.[2] Metropolitan areas include one or more urban areas, as well as satellite cities, towns and intervening rural areas that are socio-economically tied to the urban core, typically measured by commuting patterns.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area (more)

A new study confirms the benefits of Urbanization. What they found were some general correlations of size and resource consumption that more or less fit the biological organism metaphor, meaning as the city grew in size it required less energy (resources) to sustain it (Energy Accounting) in a proportion called Sub Linear scaling (Economies Of Scale). What was surprising to the team was when they measured Creative output (jobs, wealth generated, innovation) as cities grew (City Size), the scaling of this output was not sublinear, but Super Linear, meaning as the city grew its creative output grew faster and faster... Oftentimes, cities are referred to as its own EcoSystem and many use the metaphor of it acting like a biological organism, Lobo said. But the team found that this was a false Metaphor. "The one thing that we know about organisms whether it be elephants or sharks or frogs, is that as they get large, they slow down," Lobo said. "They use less energy, they don't move as fast. That is a very important point for biological scaling." "In the case of cities, it is actually the opposite," he added. "As cities get larger they create more wealth and they are more innovative at a faster rate. There is no counterpart to that in biology." Authors: Jose Lobo; Luis Bettencourt of Los Alamos National Laboratory, LosAlamos, New Mex.; Dirk Helbing and Christian Kuhnert of Dresden University of Technology, Germany; and Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mex. (more)

I mean in Population, not Area. (more)

Critical Systems Thinking (CST), pioneered heavily by theorist Michael C. Jackson, is a prominent framework designed to help organizational leaders, researchers, and practitioners navigate highly volatile, uncertain, and complex environments. Rather than treating systems thinking as a singular formula, Jackson presents CST as a "meta-methodology" that unites fragmented approaches to solve "wicked problems". [1, 2, 3] (more)

Place/action to Focus your attention/effort, instead of drizzling BullShit. Bottleneck literally refers to the top narrow part of a bottle. In engineering, it refers to a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is limited by a single or small number of components or resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck (more)

AARP: Home Visit : Detached Bedroom ADU. A detached bedroom, such as this one in St. Petersburg, Florida, contains a bathroom but no kitchen. It can provide housing for a loved one or serve as a home office or guest cottage. (senior housing) (more)

To-Do List app https://todoist.com/ (more)

Gena Gorlin: The most under-theorized, under-practiced part of human agency is Cultivating Desire. (I Want)... Naming and relishing what you love in projects, products, people, places; finding inspiration; pouring your heart out. (more)

form of exercise - smooth movements (more)

William Mark Wainwright (15 December 1956 – 23 July 2026), nicknamed and known professionally as William Orbit, was an English musician and record producer. With a career spanning four decades, he sold over 200 million recordings worldwide of his own work, his production and song-writing work.[1][2] Orbit was also a recipient of multiple Grammy Awards, Ivor Novello Awards and other music industry awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orbit (more)

Assembling a "pattern language" (inspired by architect Christopher Alexander) under the framework of Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) (pioneered by Gary Klein) bridges the gap between tacit expert intuition and actionable, structured training. (more)

Reactivity in the context of Buddhism, "AoAs," and "EIs" refers to an emergent framework in modern secular dharma and mindfulness communities—most notably associated with systems like the 9/10 Life Satisfaction framework—that maps how the human mind automatically responds to internal and external triggers. [1, 2] (more)

tendency to react without thought; see REBT, Non-Reactivity

Me, My Customer, and AI - Henrik Werdelin Nicholas (more)

The Alter Ego Effect - Todd Herman (more)

Part of Customer Development process, interviewing people in candidate Market Segments to get/confirm your understanding of key customer problems. (more)