Brett McKay: How to Be Happy — Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness. One thing that I started doing in the last couple years that has had a particularly strong impact on alleviating my depressive moods and helping me be more consistently positive. (more)

Nir Eyal: The One Physical Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good. Could there be a behavior more antithetical to human nature than exercise? (more)

Craig Mod: It took so long for me to get this thing out because I was waffling over membership language. 80% of the time of writing this was spent writing and rewriting and sitting on and then rewriting that membership section up above.* (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)

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)

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

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)

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)