Arjun Sethi: How to Transform and Build a People Platform. It’s not such a big deal that Koum, Acton, Systrom, and Krieger left Facebook. What’s astonishing is that they stayed so long in the first place (more)

Facebook's former security head: making Facebook moderate content will cement its dominance. Alex Stamos stepped down as CSO for Facebook in August, after a career in which he rather fearlessly and bluntly warned about deficiencies in Facebook's security (more)

A vitality curve is a performance management practice that calls for individuals to be ranked or rated against their coworkers. It is also called stack ranking, forced ranking, and rank and yank. Pioneered by GE's Jack Welch in the 1980s, it has long been a controversial practice due to its negative effects on employee morale and potential for bias and discrimination. Many companies have abandoned the system in recent years, including GE, Microsoft, and Goldman Sachs. As organizational behavior expert David A. Thomas put it, "companies are playing their version of 'Survivor'". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve (more)

Superhero

Key Performance Indicator: to evaluate the success of an organization or of a particular activity (such as projects, programs, products and other initiatives) in which it engages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_indicator (more)

Computer Stories: AI Is Beginning to Assist Novelists. Robin Sloan is writing his book with the help of home-brewed software that finishes his sentences with the push of a tab key.... composes by writing snippets of text, which he sends to himself as messages and then works over into longer passages. (more)

Joshua Schachter: Did I Make a Mistake Selling (SellOut) My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo? Joshua Schachter’s groundbreaking social-bookmarking site Del.icio.us. (more)

Matt Taibbi on fighting Monotheism. Little did H L Mencken know that 80 years after Dayton, the supporters of William Jennings Bryan's point of view would still outnumber the supporters of Clarence Darrow's opinion (Evolution) by a ratio of about five to one; not just in Tennessee, but in the country at large... Progressive-s in this country have always maintained a kind of fuzzy belief that Fundamentalist-s will eventually just disappear, as if by magic, that the phenomenon of grown men and women believing in devils and witches and angels will inevitably be outgrown, the way children outgrow SantaClaus, the Easter Bunny and Marx... Because of this, nothing like an organized resistance to this buffoonery has ever taken root in America... This is a mistake, and it is the same mistake people have made for centuries: underestimating the American zeal for superstition, for boobism, for living the intellectual lives of farm animals. A large statistical majority of Americans would rather live their whole lives in perpetual fear of the devil than listen to ten minutes of common sense.

Writer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Yglesias

Using this as an umbrella page for the Messages app and the iMessage protocol/service. (more)

TelCo standard - descendant of SMS - designed for MultiMedia, but really mostly used for GroupMessaging

aka Adaptability (more)

Rich Mironov: How to structure Product Management. My organisational theory basically says, "Handoffs are the enemy of insight." (more)

A general manager is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of the firm's marketing and sales functions as well as the day-to-day operations of the business. Frequently, the general manager is responsible for effective planning, delegating, coordinating, staffing, organizing, and decision making to attain desirable profit making results for an organization (Sayles 1979).[1] In many cases, the general manager of a business is given a different formal title or titles. Most corporate managers holding the titles of chief executive officer (CEO) or president, for example, are the general managers of their respective businesses. More rarely, the chief financial officer (CFO), chief operating officer (COO), or chief marketing officer (CMO) will act as the general manager of the business but there is level of post between them therefore GM and CEO are different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_manager

Genetically modified organism - see GM Food

aka GMO, Genetically Modified (more)

General Manager or General Motors or GM Food (more)

SmallWorld for TeamWork; aka Two-Pizza Team; cf Product Team

Guy Kawasaki re-FramIng of a Mission. A mantra is three or four words long. Tops. Its purpose is to help employees truly understand why the organization exists. (more)

WebLog (with unusually active/hi-signal discussion area) run by Wes Felter. http://blog.felter.org/ (more)