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.

Martin Cagan: Team Objectives - Overview. After many years of being a very vocal advocate for the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) technique, in the majority of companies I meet, I have stopped recommending the practice. (more)

Martin Cagan: Team Objectives - Empowerment. The essential point of team objectives is to empower a team by a) giving them a problem to solve rather than a feature to build; and b) ensuring they have the necessary strategic context to understand the why, and to make good decisions. (more)

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I’ve always been frustrated by the lack of useful/meaningful real cases in Product Management (case-study). I hope this (slightly blinded) case helps demonstrate a variety of principles of options, trade-offs, surprising outcomes, etc. (more)

attempts to change the political election process as a check on bad Big Government (more)

creation of voting districts based on borders that typically reinforce existing power structures (e.g. by splitting clusters of protesters). (more)

A filibuster is a tactic used in the U.S. Senate to delay or block a vote on a measure by preventing debate on it from ending.[1] The Senate's rules place few restrictions on debate; in general, if no other senator is speaking, a senator who seeks recognition is entitled to speak for as long as they wish.[2] Only when debate concludes can the measure be put to a vote. Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate allows the Senate to vote to end a filibuster by invoking cloture on the pending question. In most cases, however, this requires a majority of three-fifths of senators duly chosen and sworn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate (more)

Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), was a landmark decision[1] of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices; and Section 4(b), which contains the coverage formula that determines which jurisdictions are subject to preclearance based on their histories of discrimination in voting.[2][3] On June 25, 2013, the Court ruled by a 5 to 4 vote that Section 4(b) was unconstitutional because the coverage formula was based on data over 40 years old, making it no longer responsive to current needs and therefore an impermissible burden on the constitutional principles of federalism and equal sovereignty of the states.[2][3] The Court did not strike down Section 5, but without Section 4(b), no jurisdiction will be subject to Section 5 preclearance unless Congress enacts a new coverage formula.[4] Some allege the ruling has made it easier for state officials to make it harder for ethnic minority voters to vote.[5] The Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) as unconstitutional in a June 25, 2013 ruling.[2][29] The majority opinion was delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder (more)

Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz/; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 under President John F. Kennedy, and was sworn in shortly after Kennedy's assassination. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a U.S. representative, U.S. senator and the Senate's majority leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson