The public network of NNTP servers. These servers replicate content, so public discussions are "hosted" in any particular server. (more)

Ben Thompson on Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies (more)

Michael Dearing on Executive Communication. Every good fight is about what to do with this now-growing pie. (positive-sum) The executive communication that's demanded by that, up into the right curve, the good coordination of those complex systems, the coordination of that growth is incredibly difficult. (more)

Senior management of an institution (biz, gov, etc.)

venture capitalist

Tomasz Tunguz: The Innovator's Solution for SaaS Startups - The Flywheel SaaS Company. In the Innovator's Dilemma for SaaS Startups, I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. I argued this transition is largely due to the more attractive characteristics of larger customers, namely higher sales efficiency and reduced churn rates. This is the “traditional” way of disrupting. But, as Kenny van Zant of Asana and Mike Cannon-Brookes of Atlassian told me, there's another way, a novel way of building companies that still isn't very well understood: the Flywheel SaaS Company (more)

Preeti Vemu: The Pyramid Principle Book Review. The Pyramid Principle advocates that “ideas in writing should always form a pyramid under a single thought.” The single thought is the answer to the executive’s question. (more)

Tomasz Tunguz: The biggest professional challenge of my career - communication. (more)

John Michael Greer provides a five-part fictional scenario for the Collapse of America at the hands of China. (more)

John Robb suggests Delaying Chinese Global Dominance (more)

The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Pub.L. 111–203, H.R. 4173) was signed into federal law by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010.[1] Passed as a response to the late-2000s recession (Credit Crisis 2008), it brought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great Depression.[2][3][4] It made changes in the American financial regulatory environment that affect all federal financial regulatory agencies and almost every part of the nation's financial services industry.[5][6] As with other major financial reforms, a variety of critics have attacked the law, some arguing it was not enough to prevent another financial crisis or more "bail outs", and others arguing it went too far and unduly restricted financial institutions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act

EBook/HyperText-design concept by Robert Darnton - see Breaking The Page (more)

Clarke Ching: Rolling Rocks Downhill ISBN:1505446511 Takes Eli Goldratt business-fiction approach to pitching Iterative Agile Software Development for a new product being created by a mature company. Heavy emphasis on bottleneck thinking. (more)

see MIT, Most Important Task (more)

The cognitive reflection test (CRT) is a task designed to measure a person's tendency to override an incorrect "gut" response and engage in further reflection to find a correct answer. It was first described in 2005 by psychologist Shane Frederick.... The test has been found to correlate with many measures of economic thinking, such as numeracy, temporal discounting, risk preference, and gambling preference. It has also been correlated with measures of mental heuristics, such as the gambler's fallacy, understanding of regression to the mean, the sunk cost fallacy, and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_reflection_test (more)

see Make Money

Agile Software Development guru

From "Big Ball of Mud" by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder: "A BIG BALL OF MUD is haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, Duct Tape and bailing wire, Spaghetti Code jungle. We've all seen them. These systems show unmistakable signs of unregulated growth, and repeated, expedient repair. Information is shared promiscuously among distant elements of the system, often to the point where nearly all the important information becomes global or duplicated. The overall structure of the system may never have been well defined. If it was, it may have eroded beyond recognition. Programmers with a shred of architectural sensibility shun these quagmires. Only those who are unconcerned about architecture, and, perhaps, are comfortable with the inertia of the day-to-day chore of patching the holes in these failing dikes, are content to work on such systems." (more)

Mike (Miguel) Beedle was an American theoretical physicist turned software engineer who was a co-author of the Agile Manifesto.[1] He was the co-author of the first book and earliest papers about Scrum.[2] Later he coined the term "Enterprise Scrum",[3] developed his ideas into a canvases-based approach, and promoted Enterprise Scrum as a framework for scaling the practices and benefits of Scrum across entire organizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Beedle

Ken Schwaber (born 1945 in Wheaton, Illinois) is a software developer, product manager and industry consultant. He worked with Jeff Sutherland to formulate the initial versions of the Scrum framework and to present Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA'95. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Schwaber