Chris Jones: Favorite Product Manager Interview Question vs 2017-03-21-CaganMyFavoritePmInterviewQuestion. (more)

John Kelly and Camille François: This is what filter bubbles actually look like. In this Twitter map (below) of the US political landscape, accounts that follow one another are clustered together, and they are color-coded by the kinds of content they commonly share. At first glance, it might seem reassuring: although there are clear echo chambers, there is also an intertwined network of elected officials, the press, and political and policy professionals. There are extremes, but they are mediated through a robust middle. (more)

chairman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, and subsequently as the chief economist of the World Bank during the East Asian financial crisis... winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics (more)

see Chaos Theory

deals with the behavior of certain nonlinear Dynamical Systems that (under certain conditions) exhibit the phenomenon known as chaos, most famously characterised by sensitivity to initial conditions (see butterfly effect). (more)

Get a random pick of Oblique Strategies, from Brian Eno (more)

cf Thinking Tools

Piotr Wozniak's Super Memo program helps you practice/retain information you want to remember/learn at the optimal interval. Users can seal huge quantities of vocabulary into their brains. But for Wozniak, 46, helping people learn a foreign language fast is just the tiniest part of his goal. As we plan the days, weeks, even years of our lives, he would have us rely not merely on our traditional sources of self-knowledge - introspection, intuition, and conscious thought - but also on something new: predictions about ourselves encoded in machines... Given the chance to observe our behaviors (Life Streaming), computers can run Simulation-s, modeling different versions of our path through the world. By tuning these models for top performance, computers will give us rules to live by. They will be able to tell us when to wake, sleep, learn, and exercise; they will cue us to remember what we've read, help us track whom we've met, and remind us of our goals. Computers, in Wozniak's scheme, will increase our intellectual capacity and enhance our rational Self Control... "The people who criticize memorization - how happy would they be to spell out every letter of every word they read?" asks Robert Bjork, chair of UCLA's psychology department and one of the most eminent memory researchers. After all, Bjork notes, children learn to read whole words through intense practice, and every time we enter a new field we become children again. "You can't escape memorization," he says. "There is an initial process of learning the names of things. That's a stage we all go through. It's all the more important to go through it rapidly." The human brain is a marvel of Associative processing, but in order to make associations, data must be loaded into memory. Personal Development (more)

Ethan Bernstein: Collaborate on complex problems, but only intermittently (more)

John Cutler: Not Leadership “Material”... Sound familiar? We need our people to be brave! We need leaders, not followers! (more)

Ian Mitchell on Projects and Products in Scrum. Agile coaching is a journey into irony. One of the chief discoveries you can make on this voyage is that the more experienced you become, the worse at the job others often think you get. (Agile Product Development) (more)

Ryan Craig: It’s The Journey, Not The Destination. Credly has issued tens of millions of digital credentials and demand is growing rapidly, particularly among employers, industry associations, and scale credential providers such as large IT vendors. Issuers seeking to badge specific competencies are either on or joining the Credly platform. Credly already hosts the majority of credentials most commonly requested in job postings, and more than 80% of the top IT certifications found on LinkedIn. (more)

WebLog in short-form (MicroContent) (more)

BigGov/BigGovernment and SmallGov (more)

A democracy is a form of government in which the people, either directly or indirectly, take part in governing. The word democracy originates from Greek, and means rule of the people. (more)

Politics (from Greek: πολιτικά, translit. Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of decision making that apply to members of a group.[1] It refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance—organized control over a human community, particularly a state (government). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics

Attempt by a company to become more Digital-Native, embrace the New Economy. Perhaps gain some Strategic Agility....

Whether an educational program (esp College Education) results in a grad who is prepared for a DayJob? (more)

Job training to bridge between school and first job. (more)

Vocational/Technical - e.g. schools (esp High School) focused on preparing students (Educating Kids) for a job (Making A Living), rather than a College Education. (more)