This is the publicly-readable Wiki Thinking Space of Bill Seitz. See Front Page for latest entries. (more)

Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever. Hossein Rahnama knows a CEO of a major financial company who wants to live on after he’s dead, and Rahnama thinks he can help him do it. Rahnama is creating a digital avatar for the CEO that they both hope could serve as a virtual “consultant” when the actual CEO is gone. (more)

Jeff Gothelf: What happens after OKRs? So you’ve made the leap to Objectives and Key Results (more)

the Civil War in the US triggered by an attempt at Secession by the southern (slavery) states (Red Vs Blue). (more)

treating some human beings as property with no Agency (more)

Aytekin Tank: What I learned about procrastination while scaling my startup to 4.2 million users. Balancing a full-time job with the responsibilities of scaling my startup, JotForm, taught me a lot about myself. (more)

Andrew Goldis: Why I quit Amazon just 5 months after I’ve started. I was overwhelmed by online “cultural” trainings about the company’s leadership principles and other corporate bullshit, I felt like I am joining a religious organization and being brainwashed. (more)

Jordan Rosenfeld: Lean Product Development And How To Choose The Right Value Proposition. While the MVP is important, Lars said they spend the vast majority of their validation on their product cycle, particularly on what he calls “positioning.” In a nutshell this comes down to: “How are we selling? What is that core headline, that core value proposition…they’re going to get when they buy it?” (more)

Lauren Detweiler of Parker Dewey: From choosing a major to choosing a job: A college senior’s perspective on career exploration. From a college student’s perspective, here are the benefits of doing as much career exploration as possible before jumping into a job: (more)

Steve Denning: Why Finding The Real Meaning Of Agile Is Hard. It has become a huge tent with varied jargon monoxide. (more)

see Agile Software Development, Agile Product Development, Business Agility/Strategic Agility

William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (October 1, 1917 – January 12, 1999) was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist, and people-watcher. After his book about corporate culture The Organization Man (1956) sold over two million copies, Whyte turned his attention to the study of human behaviour in urban settings. He published several books on the topic, including The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980).[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Whyte

Four-year-old startup Clubhouse has a bold new plan to take on Atlassian's mega-popular Jira with a new project management tool. When co-founder and CEO Kurt Schrader founded Clubhouse, he felt that developers needed a better tool to organize their work. Now, his startup is scaling to work with enterprise companies in an effort to better compete with the likes of Atlassian's Jira. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Self-Interest and Seized Initiatives. To seize the initiative is to dictate the logic of a course of events when others in the game also have free will. To be constantly in a reactive mode, never being the one taking the initiative, is a fundamentally dangerous thing, even when you're not fighting an evil genius adversary who's all up inside your OODA loop. It is dangerous even in dealing with friends and family who might genuinely intend to act in your best interests. The thing is, only you can truly act in your own self-interest, and indeed, have a responsibility to do so. (more)

Self-interest generally refers to a focus on the needs or desires (interests) of the self. A number of philosophical, psychological, and economic theories examine the role of self-interest in motivating human action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-interest

ex-Facebook CSO (more)

aka HeadQuarters (more)

see Stanford University

work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law (more)

During the junk-bond and LBO craze of the 80s, Michael Jensen wrote an article for Harvard Business Review called "The Eclipse of the Public Corporation". His point was that Private Equity would create better-performing companies because the conflict between owners and managers would disappear as they became the same people. An example being behaviors like building a big unnecessary staff to feel important (which if you were an owner you'd be more likely to decide wasn't worth the actual dollars), or promoting toadies regardless of their actual ability to run the business. (more)