aka confidence game, scam; a form of Gaming The System?

The Great Game is a term originally coined by Arthur Connolly of the British East India Company used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game (more)

game that takes a long time to play/end; typically a real-world game (more)

minimum-effective dose: a concept coined by Nautilus fitness creator Arthur Jones and popularized by lifestyle hacker Tim Ferriss in his book The Four Hour Body, here’s the simplest definition: the smallest dose that will produce the desired effect or outcome. For Jones, this was the minimum effective load, the point after which any additional resistance added to the bar would be redundant or even counterproductive to one’s strength and fitness goals. For Ferriss, the MED is about getting the most bang for your exercise and dietary buck. (more)

John Cutler: The Data-Informed Product Cycle. I recently shared this Tweet: Most teams jump from high level strategy/goals straight to feature ideas (w/ "success metrics") The most successful teams 1. Have a strategy 2. Translate that into models 3. Add minimally viable measurement 4. Identify leverage points 5. Explore options 6. Run experiments (more)

TV series (based on a book by Martin Kihn ISBN:0446696382) about consulting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lies (more)

Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive - consulting-friendly meta-model (more)

Buster Benson: Wicked Problems added to the list. This is the 4th idea I’ve added to the list of Ideas I’m Mulling. So far, there’s the codex vitae (book of beliefs), prisoner’s dilemma, and the capability approach. (more)

changing a discussion/conversation to be about the discussion itself: why discuss it, how is it being discussed, who's discussing it, what's not being discussed, etc. (MetaCognition) (actually, the Going/Nudging is to Go Meta - the Meta Level is the destination) (more)

Michael Nielsen: How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create? Rough and incomplete working notes, to help me think through how to use this site. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: The Meaning Crisis Conspiracy. The meaning crisis was a psyop invented in a secret Murdoch-funded lab in 2015 to distract younger Millennials and Zoomers from the fact that the rent was too damn high, and it worked. (more)

see MetaLevel or Facebook

Payment Processing Financial Institution acquired by EBay in 2002. (more)

Martin Cagan: The Nature of Product. When a product person, or especially a product coach, has not yet had the good fortune to work on a strong product team at a strong product company, then one of the most essential concepts of all, is to try to convey the fundamental nature of technology-powered products. (more)

How to quantify the ventilation rate of an indoor space using a cheap CO2 monitor. The ventilation rate can change enormously between different spaces, and these changes are very important. (more)

Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. It is used to develop cross platform applications for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, Google Fuchsia,[4] and the web from a single codebase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutter_(software) (more)

Dart is a programming language designed for client development,[8][9] such as for the web and mobile apps. It is developed by Google and can also be used to build server and desktop applications. It is an object-oriented, class-based, garbage-collected language with C-style syntax.[10] It can compile to either native code or JavaScript, and supports interfaces, mixins, abstract classes, reified generics and type inference.... Google has introduced Flutter for native mobile app development on Android, iOS and Windows.[29] Flutter is a mobile app SDK, complete with framework, widgets, and tools, that gives developers a way to build and deploy mobile apps, written in Dart.[30] Flutter works with Firebase[31] and other mobile app SDKs, and is open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_(programming_language)

Jonathan Edwards programming language project. https://www.subtext-lang.org/ (more)

Steve Yegge on developing with JavaScript and Mozilla. JavaScript is probably the most important language in the world today. .. For one thing, despite JavaScript's inevitable quirks and flaws and warts and hairy boogers and severe body odor, it possesses that magical property that you can get stuff done really fast with it. JavaScript is definitely the tortoise to Java's hare... It turns out if you dig deep into Mozilla (aka Netscape, aka FireFox, aka Sea Monkey, aka Swamp Monster, I mean the thing really has way too many farging names already), you'll find that it actually is a relatively full-featured Platform. It's not quite as general-purpose as an OS (or Java), but it's certainly big and hairy enough to be making threats in that general direction. But my God, it's sooooooo ugly. It's got well over a decade of ugly packed in there. "HelloWorld" in Mozilla is six or seven files in as many different languages... OK, but what about FireFox? Why don't they, you know, innovate? Well, they're trying, I think, but for what I'm guessing are probably tangled historical reasons - which manifest as the developers often being gridlocked politically - Mozilla lacks what Fred Brooks Jr. calls "ConceptualIntegrity" in his classic "The Mythical Man Month". (Which, incidentally, remains today the most vitally relevant book on software engineering, over 30 years after it was written.) The Mozilla folks would have to do a lot of serious re-thinking in order to reduce XUL's "HelloWorld" down to a few lines of code in a single language. And I'm not convinced that kind of thinking is happening in the FireFox camp right now. It's not that they're not thinking at all; don't get me wrong. They're just not thinking about radical, revolutionary user-level simplifications to the basic framework. (more)

Google Web Toolkit, from Google. Google Web Toolkit (GWT /ˈɡwɪt/), or GWT Web Toolkit,[1] is an open-source set of tools that allows web developers to create and maintain JavaScript front-end applications in Java. It is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit (more)