Of "Stating the Obvious", SippeyWiki, etc. (more)

author, CityComforts: How to Build an Urban Village ISBN:0-9642680-1-9 (via Self Publishing) (more)

Ben Hunt (Epsilon Theory): Clever Hans. Mustangs have to be “broken” to accept a human’s touch and control, a word that conjures up images of bucking broncos and the forcible crushing of an animal’s spirit. But that’s not how it works. (more)

one big group in Organized Crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia (more)

Rusty Guinn (Epsilon Theory): In Praise of Work. Work is on my mind right now in part because of two essays I read this week. One was written by Ben Carlson at Ritholtz Wealth Management (2019-02-28-CarlsonWhyArePeopleMiserableAtWork). The other – which was heavily referenced in Carlson’s piece – was written by Derek Thompson and published in the Atlantic (2019-02-24-ThompsonAmericasReligionIsWork). They are both really good and worthy of your time, but it’s Thompson’s piece I want to talk about (in part because I don’t disagree with anything in Ben’s excellent piece). I think Thompson gets nearly everything right, too, but for all that somehow ends up in the wrong place. (more)

investing, managing other people's investments. cf capital market

Life-style design model of balancing dayjob and leisure.

Venkatesh Rao: The Cyberpaleo Ethic and the Spirit of Post-Capitalism (more)

model? meta level? alienation?

a Model about a Model? Thinking About Thinking? Thinking at the Meta Level (more)

religion-like seeking of meaningful life via DayJob? 2019-02-24-ThompsonAmericasReligionIsWork

Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’ American women of working age are the most educated ever. Yet it’s the most educated women who face the biggest gender gaps in seniority and pay (more)

Ben Carlson: Why Are People Miserable at Work? Derek Thompson at The Atlantic wrote a monster piece this week about how workism is the new religion for many. 2019-02-24-ThompsonAmericasReligionIsWork The problem is even some of those people who have “made it” are miserable...successful, wealthy, but utterly miserable because their jobs leave them unfulfilled. (more)

Amazon EBook reader launched 2007 (eInk); software apps for Windows/Mac released 2009-2010, Android/iPhone 2010. (more)

see 2016-09-16-CutlerAMapFromGoalsAroundAssumptionsThroughTasksTowardsResults

see Authoritarian High Modernism

The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. (more)

Martin Cagan: Tools and Processes. The key is to realize that every tool, method or process is trying to help the intended user to do certain things more easily, and they usually also intentionally make it difficult to other things (more)

Clive Thompson: When Workers Control the Code. Back in 2016, with the help of Morse and Robin Hood, a local nonprofit, they decided to set up their own local, grassroots rival to Handy, the venture-funded (and sometimes worker-maligned) “Uber of household chores.” (more)

Martin Cagan: The Greatest Coach. I realized that there was something very significant in common between so many of the companies I consider consistently strong in product (more)