scifi/cyberpunk author

Jon Lebkowsky: The Mirrorshades anthology, edited by our cohost Bruce Sterling, surveyed a literary subgenre that was called cyberpunk not because the term had any precise meaning (it didn't), but because it worked as a catchy marketing bite, a buzzword representing ideas and memes that had resonance more through attitude than content. The vague term cyberpunk became a conceptual mirror, reflecting rather than conveying meaning. Over time `cyberpunk' referred less to a sci-fi subgenre, and more to a movement that was the beatnik underside of the evolving digital culture, encompassing the countercultural fascinations of the 90s -- the computer underground, rave/house culture, zine culture, designer psychedelics, goth morbidity, etc. (more)

Ash Maurya is working on moving from the Lean Canvas to process/tools helping structure the assumptions/risks/experiments that it contains: he's calling this the "Lean Stack". You start out by drawing a line in the sand with your initial Lean Canvas, prioritizing risks, and systematically testing those risks through experiments. There is a built-in learning feedback loop from experiments back to risks back to the business model. While this process works conceptually, I often field questions from other entrepreneurs specifically on how to: correctly prioritize risks and define experiments; track those experiments so it scales over time (and with more people); reflect the learning from experiments back on to the canvas. (more)

Mark Bernstein is blogging a Neo-Victorian Computing idea parallel to a talk he's giving at OOPSLA. I'm going to talk about why we in computing seem unhappy, and how we might fix it. (more)

Suddenly-popular (2020) framing for a personal digital notebook, ideally with associative bi-directional links. See Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock for history-links. Many people define it as being public-readable (like a WikiLog), for Thinking Out Loud value. Though some people/tools have 1 ThinkingSpace that has some public pages and some private notebook, aka Private Wiki. I now frame this pairing as Tending Your Inner And Outer Digital Gardens. (more)

For Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems. (more)

If I hadn't built Flux.Garden, and I didn't care about working in public, and I was a 25-45-yo time-shifted version of myself, what would I use as a note-taking app for my private digital garden? (more)

Note-Taking App, digital garden app (more)

Restaurants in the East Village NYC I like (roughly by street, not preference) (Restaurant Review): (more)

aka 3D Printing (more)

Will Wright is working on a Computer Game based on Maneki Neko - actually an ARG?!? (more)

Tools-for-Thought Rocks session on programmable Spatial Canvas apps. See prev (2022-09-29) TfTR Spatial Canvases (more)

Tools-for-Thought Rocks session on Spatial Canvas apps. (more)

John Seely Brown wrote (PDF) a paper on "New Learning Environments" following a talk he gave at the 2005 Aspen Symposium. He made an update version (PDF) in fall-2006. Changing was of Educating Kids to deal with Complex Systems of the world. (more)

experimental step of Product Development (more)

Woody Allen story: "I'm on the road a lot. You know how it is - lonely. Oh, not what you're thinking. See, Kaiser, I'm basically an intellectual. Sure, a guy can meet all the bimbos he wants. But the really brainy women - they're not so easy to find on short notice."

Sharing your thinking out loud notes and progress notes with the outside world. This helps build collective intelligence by (more)

Writing as online Networking. Andrew Chen: Writing is the most scalable professional networking activity - stay home, don't go to events/conferences, and just put ideas down. Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts, Thinking Out Loud (more)

Martin Cagan/Jon Moore: Changing How You Solve Problems. Changing how you build, test and deploy is important no matter what you choose to build, but for too many companies, they just become a more efficient feature factory. (more)

esp Product Team Objective - OKR process is good if you meet the prerequisites - see (2020-02-24) Cagan Team Objectives Overview.