Alex Steffen ponders the local heroes that will save us from the Long Emergency. And we got on this riff about heroes who got the paradox of the moment: that abandoned people and places are sometimes the ones who most need radical innovation; that, these days, new tools and models are practically scattered all over the ground, just waiting for people to pick them up; but that those who most need them are those who least know how to find them. (more)

The risk of Water War-s being fought over Clean Water is rising because of explosive global population growth and widespread complacency. I'm not sure that "InfraStructure" will solve the Side Effect-s of sucking that much water out of the ground.

A Place For Mom, a service that helps family find an appropriate Senior Housing match for their parent, just got $9.5M in VC money. (more)

Christopher Mims: On-Demand Grandkids and Robot Pals to Keep Senior Loneliness at Bay. (more)

Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think. Most of the existing narratives around Fortnite success are overhyped – even if they’re critical to its long-term evolution. (more)

Turns out revenue model design is important. And it’s a product matter first. With the three examples presented here I also want to explore the idea that success in digital is not driven by the adoption of a specific business model, but by the ability to monetise a product or ecosystem in different ways — or, in other words, to implement a multimodal business model. (see 2018-12-07-ChanOutgrowingAdvertisingMultimodalBusinessModelsAsAProductStrategy) (more)

Bridge between MyCalling/Vision and Actionable plans. See Effective Entrepreneur process (2016-03-17-PearsonHowEntrepreneursFigureOutWhatTheyWant).

For Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems. (more)

I'm toying with the idea of writing something on Raising Kids like HowTo Raise Reality Hacker-s. (Background Context: Fractally Generative Pattern Language.) Would probably become a Self Published EBook and then a paid Teaching Sells-like Virtual Community. (more)

John Cutler: Do This Now: 8 Ways to Focus your Product Team on Impact, Not Features. 1. Reframe feature requests as ‘bets’ (Experiment) (more)

Book by Reed Hoffman and Chris Yeh. ISBN:0008303630

ProductBoard raises further $10M for its product management system. The cloud software is designed to bridge the gap between customer feedback and feature requests and a company’s product road map, thus doing away with the use of disparate tools such as chat apps, email, spreadsheets and PowerPoint. (more)

Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3 billion valuation. The forthcoming Series D round is said to be led by Chinese tech giant Tencent. (more)

Ross Mayfield believes that Wiki-s are the one tool that will bring the Hacker culture to the masses. Innovative hacks eventually become parts of Platform-s, even Windows... What's particular about wikis are that they are easy. A world writable website. People actually use them responsibly.

Key Web Browser helping the World Wide Web in Crossing The Chasm. Released (for Mac) Sept'1993. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

Brain Fart Of The Day: I'd like to see more experimentation/design of new Disputation Arena-s. (more)

David Brin idea/patent for Disputation Arena. 2006-11-06-BrinBrownGoogleTalk (more)

Thinking Tools for generating change through a Design Framing (more)

Sean Johnson: Looking to Innovate? Ditch the Startup Mentality and Adopt a Venture Capitalist Mindset. Dwyer and Johnson advise a portfolio approach to innovation: investing in a range of ideas based on key insights into opportunities and needs. (more)

Tim O'Reilly: The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy. Most monopolies or duopolies develop over time, and have been considered dangerous to competitive markets; now they are sought after from the start and are the holy grail for investors. (Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh’s new book Blitzscaling.) (more)