Writer, Media Inventor https://www.robinsloan.com (more)

Robin Sloan: Serialized mystery: The Strange Case of the New Golden Gate, Chapter 1. On a sunny Tuesday in June, Stella Pajunas missed her burrito. This wouldn’t have been a problem except that multiple pedestrian onlookers watched her step onto the sidewalk, reach upward and vanish. Burrito, splat. (more)

Robin Sloan: Notes on a genre. The thing to know about the AI language models, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fundamentally bullshitters (more)

Josh Kramer interviews Robin Sloan: describing the emotions of life online. What's interesting to you about books as technology? (more)

Getting FeedBack from others is a good thing for your sense-making: Digital Garden (more)

Perils of the Overworld (more)

typically defined as books sold in electronic format - typically in a closed binary form (more)

Julian Shapiro: Starting Principles: How to turn great advice into action. If I have a superpower, it’s that I now act on great advice. (See my application at bottom.) (more)

positive self-talk (more)

mood/mindset, esp of a scene

Martin Cagan: Product Vision vs. Mission. The product vision is one of the most important and highest-leverage tools for tech-powered product companies. (more)

see Balsamiq Mockups

Martin Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group) on Start Up Product Development via Prototype. there are two keys: 1) the idea is to create a high-fidelity prototype that mimics the eventual user experience – it’s just fine if the back-end processing and data is all fake; and 2) you need to validate this product design with real target users. In this model, it is normal to create literally dozens of versions of the prototype – it will evolve daily, sometimes with minor refinements and sometimes with very significant changes. I think that for something really "new" it's hard to make a prototype rich enough to really give people a strong intuitive sense of what you're about. On the other hand, maybe that's a sign that you need to craft a narrow/tangible/compelling message, even if it only covers one corner of what you do. Kinda like a Product Fragmentation approach - 2005-07-15-JotspotProduct Fragmentation.

going beyond UnSchooling to repairing the damage done by Schooling... may be everyone should get this after they graduate from their last school! See Teenage Liberation Handbook. Part of a bigger picture: Deschooling Society... Any similarities between being OverTreated, OverSchooled, OverParented, and OverManaged (MicroManagement) is purely a coincidence.

Visual Studio Code

Agile Software Development "model" to define frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, and Holacracy....or you might call this a minimal viable framework. From Jurgen Appelo. (more)

Popular MacOs X Text Editor http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ $50 (more)

Martin Cagan: The Biggest Risk. One of the things I like about a Lean Canvas is it helps to quickly highlight the key assumptions and major risks facing a startup or a significant new product in an existing business. This is a good thing. The idea is to tackle the biggest risks first. That’s the theory at least. (more)

Martin Cagan on Product Vision Pivots vs. Product Discovery Pivots. I see too many teams and startups giving up on their product vision too early. The purpose of this article is to try to highlight this issue by contrasting the two very different types of product pivots. I call the two types “Vision Pivots” and “Discovery Pivots.” (more)

Martin Cagan: Transformation in Action. This chapter was written by SVPG Partner Jon Moore, and is based on his experiences during and after the transformation at The Guardian, which was one of the most impressive transformations I have witnessed. (more)