Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis

spec for Basic School Skills (more)

A practice in the Open Hyperdocument System of making all documents Paragraph Addressable by inserting A-NAMEs at that level. (more)

tank-wiki-based digital garden: https://tank.peermore.com/tanks/cdent/index (more)

similar to an Amusement Park, but with more of an integrative Narrative (more)

You Can't be a Citizen of a ThemePark. from Cory Doctorow: (2005-10-11) Doctorow Themepunks

aka Chief Product Officer, Product Leader, Head of Product (more)

Packaging A YouTube Transcript for reading/highlighting (for my digital garden): (more)

Note-taking app with an orientation toward semi-structured data/document-oriented rather than running-freetext: "Write information, not documents." https://www.tana.inc/ (more)

Robin Sloan character (more)

anti-pattern of treating your product team like a feature team, that mindlessly executes others' (stakeholder, HiPPO) ideas, and is judged on output (aka meeting deadline) rather than outcomes. Corrected approach: Agile Product Development.

JPod is a novel by Douglas Coupland published by Random House of Canada in 2006. Set in 2005, the book explores the strange and unconventional everyday life of the main character, Ethan Jarlewski, and his team of video game programmers whose last names all begin with the letter 'J'. JPod was adapted into a CBC television series of the same name co-created by Douglas Coupland and Michael MacLennan. It premiered on January 8, 2008, and ran until its cancellation on March 7, 2008, leaving the series with a permanent cliffhanger. The first thirteen episodes of the series aired in the United States on The CW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPod (more)

Screens, Research, and Hypertext, an online hypertext-ebook/wiki-ebook by Joe Miller https://screensresearchhypertext.com/ (more)

In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input.[1][2] Nonlinear problems are of interest to engineers, biologists,[3][4][5] physicists,[6][7] mathematicians, and many other scientists because most systems are inherently nonlinear in nature.[8] Nonlinear dynamical systems, describing changes in variables over time, may appear chaotic, unpredictable, or counterintuitive, contrasting with much simpler linear systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system (more)

book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais on choosing team patterns for your organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams. ASIN:B07NSF94PC (more)

classic Fred Brooks book on assumption-errors in planning software deadlines

aka Memory Machines: The Evolution Of HyperText, by Belinda Barnet ISBN:1783083441 (more)

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon is a 2013 bestselling book written by journalist Brad Stone. It documents the rise of Amazon.com in the 1990s, its near demise during the dot-com bust, and its subsequent revival with the inventions of Amazon Prime, the Kindle and Amazon Web Services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Everything_Store ISBN:978-0-316-21926-6

The ultimate theoretical HyperText universe. Founded 1960 by Ted Nelson. (more)

Gordon Brander: Imagine a notebook. This notebook is designed to last decades. It’s your diary, your art practice, your novel, your scrapbook, your thesis, your stray ideas… maybe your lifework? Your second brain. (more)