DigitalGarden for TeamWork (more)

Greg Borenstein is a game designer, technologist, and teacher. His work explores game design, computer vision, drawing, machine learning, and generative storytelling as media for play and design. He currently works as a technical game designer at Riot Games. Greg is a graduate of the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and the Playful Systems Group at the MIT Media Lab. He was the consulting futurist and a co-writer for the Minority Report TV show and has worked for firms such as Makerbot, Berg London, and Polaroid. https://gregborenstein.com/

In the United States, the term Nifty Fifty was an informal designation for a group of roughly fifty large-cap stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1960s and 1970s that were widely regarded as solid buy and hold growth stocks, or "blue-chip" stocks. These fifty stocks are credited by historians with propelling the bull market of the early 1970s, while their subsequent crash and underperformance through the early 1980s are an example of what may occur following a period during which many investors ignore fundamental stock valuation metrics, to instead make decisions on popular sentiment.[1] Roughly half of the Nifty Fifty have since recovered and are solid performers, although a few are now defunct or otherwise worthless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty (more)

Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney (colloquially Penney's and abbreviated JCP) is an American department store chain with 646 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.[3][4] It is managed as part of the Catalyst Brands portfolio alongside other apparel retailers such as Brooks Brothers and Eddie Bauer.[5] Its departments include men's, women's and children's apparel, cosmetics, jewelry, and home furnishings along with leased departments managed by Shearshare, US Vision and Lifetouch. The chain focuses on lifestyle products for middle class households. JCPenney was founded in 1902 as a group of dry goods stores that James Cash Penney managed as part of the Golden Rule chain and incorporated under his own name in 1913. The chain struggled in the early 21st century amid the rise of internet retail and the decline of mall traffic, and stay-home measures during the COVID-19 pandemic forced it into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2020. It emerged from bankruptcy under the joint ownership of mall operators Simon Property Group and Brookfield Properties,[6] later joined by Authentic Brands Group as a minority owner.[7] In January 2025, JCPenney was combined with SPARC Group — Simon and Authentic's portfolio of legacy retail brands — to form Catalyst Brands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCPenney

Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/sɪərz/ SEERZ),[7] is an American chain of department stores and online retailer. The company was founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald. The company began as a mail-order catalog company and opened its first retail locations in 1925.[8] Through the 1980s, Sears was the largest retailer in the United States.[9] In 2005, Eddie Lampert took control of the company through Kmart.[10][11] The merger resulted in Sears Holdings. Sears' parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 15, 2018.[12] After the bankruptcy, Transformco focuses on managing and selling the remaining real estate assets. From 2705 stores at its peak in 2011,[15][16] only 5 stores are still open as of 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears

Went to the Chicago CTO Summit, run by Peter Bell (more)

investment advisor https://www.yesigiveafig.com/about

the % of order-flow that a marketplace operator (app store, streaming provider, etc.) keeps as fees.

Instacart is the Best and Worst Grocery Business Imaginable (grocery store). Growth investors are rarely excited to underwrite a business that hires 600,000 people to perform a repetitive task like picking items off grocery store shelves and delivering them (more)

designing a new product category

*The most powerful companies and leaders in the world don’t win by being “better.” (more)

cluster of products which are "similar" (to the customer? JTBD) (more)

Cedric Chin cluster on the Market. ‘Market’ is a shorthand for ‘factors influencing the market’, which is one of the three legs of triad mental model of business expertise. (more)

Book by Geoffrey Moore on Marketing of high-tech products (or you could just consider it to be Business Strategy) - basically dealing with the Technology Adoption Life Cycle. Specifically, how to make your product, which is already accepted by Innovator and Early Adopter buyers, acceptable/attractive to the Pragmatist Consumer. ISBN:0060517123 (more)

Positioning book by April Dunford ISBN:1999023005 https://www.aprildunford.com/obviously-awesome (more)

business strategy book by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne (more)

Mistral AI SAS (French: [mistʁal]) is a French artificial intelligence (AI) company, headquartered in Paris. Founded in 2023, it has open-weight large language models (LLMs), with both open-source and proprietary AI models.[2][3][4] As of 2025 the company has a valuation of more than US$14 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_AI

Zvi Mowshowitz: DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday. It’s been another checks notes two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news. You can also see my previous coverage of the r1 model and, from Monday various reactions including the Panic at the App Store. (more)

Hi, my name is Charity, and I am professionally caremad about computers. I am an operations and database engineer and sometimes engineering manager. Right now I am the CEO and cofounder of Honeycomb, where we build observability for distributed systems. (server “Monitoring” doesn’t have to be a dirty word; give us a try.) https://charity.wtf/ (more)

Nikhil Suresh: Brainwash An Executive Today! I. A few years ago, I had an annual one-on-one with the Chief Technology Officer of an employer with more than ten thousand staff. (more)