Mark Bernstein considers the Neo-Victorian response to YAGNI. Sometimes, it's worth building the good generality early, because it will open new vistas and new opportunities... Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn, or fence the thoughts of your programmers when they're turning bits and rust to gold. (cf generative)
Activities of Daily Living: essential and routine tasks that most young, healthy individuals can perform without assistance. (more)
the preferred Senior Housing approach: stay at home as long as possible (more)
I have a personal Google Account with multiple Google Calendars. I also now have a dayjob account with its own GoogleCalendar. (more)
Android app I used on my Pixel 2 XL to access my work MsOutlook email and calendar: (2020-01-18) Google Calendar vs Microsoft Calendar.
a question you're chewing over for an extended period of time; cf Favorite Problem (more)
figuring out the "right" solution to a user's problem (typically by generating lots of ideas and then evaluating them)
Amazon Web Services - joining the IOS Platform competition? (more)
EcoSystem for Information Co-Creation (and simple creating/consuming) (more)
Ash Maurya: The Problem With Problems – Love the Problem. Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.” (more)
Martin Cagan: Discovery: Learning vs. Insights. Insights are a type of learning. The point is that they are learnings that we can leverage (actionable). (more)
Teresa Torres: Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t). Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. (more)
Steven Johnson: The Simple Cure. I saw a brief allusion on Twitter to the sad news that Dilip Mahalanabis had died. Mahalanabis was one of the key figures—arguably the key figure—behind Oral Rehydration Therapy, a revolutionary and surprisingly simple technique that has prevented millions of people, particularly children, from dying of diarrheal diseases like cholera over the past few decades (more)
Baldur Bjarnason: How to keep up with web development without falling into despair. People say that web development is unique because of the fast pace and volume of changes in the field. (more)
This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)
My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Evolution by increasing Freedom, Agency, and Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (SmallWorld) via D And D of Thinking Tools (software and Games To Play).
See Intro Page for space-related goals, status, etc.; or Wiki Node for more terse summary info.
Beware the War On The Net!
Current:
- head of product for an early-stage boot-strapped company
- founder FluxGarden for Digital Garden hosting
- wrote Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems ASIN:B00HHJA5JS
My Coding for fun.
Past:
- Director Product Managment, NCSA Sports
- CTO/Product Manager at a series of startups: MedScape, then Axiom Legal, then Living Independently, then DailyLit, then AEP...
- founded Family Financial Future, personal-financial-planning nagware for parents
- consulting
- founded Teamflux.com, a hosting service for wiki-based collaboration spaces.
- founded Wikilogs.com, a hosting service for WikiLog-s (wiki-based weblogs).
Agile Product Development, Product Management from MVP to Product-Market Fit, Adding Product To Your Startup Team, Agility, Context, and Team Agency, (2022-10-12) Accidental Learnings of a Journeyman Product Manager
Big Levers, Theory of Change, Change the World, (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future; Network Enlightenment, Optimistic Near Future Vision; Huge Invention; Alternatives To A College Degree; Credit Crisis 2008; Economic Transition; Network Economy; Making A Living; Varieties Of Info Technology Jobs; Generative Schooling; Product Oriented Unschooling; Reality Hacker; A 20th Century Economic Theory
FluxGarden; Network Enlightenment Ecosystem; ThinkingTools Interaction as Medium; Hypermedia Pattern Language; Everyone Needs Their Own ThinkingSpace; Digital Garden; Virtual ThinkingSpace; Thinking Tools Companies; Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts; My CollaborationWare History; Wiki Proliferation; Portal Collaboration Roadmap; Wiki For GroupWare, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, Email Discussion Beside Wiki, Wiki For CollaborationWare, Collaboration Roadmap; Sister Sites; Wiki Hack
Personal Cloud; 2018-11-29-NextOpenInfrastructure, 2018-11-15-BooksVsTweets; Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock
Social Warrens; Culture War; 2017-02-15-MindmapCultureWarSocialMediaEconomy; Cultural Pluralism
Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Small Tribe, SimplestThing, Becoming A Reality Hacker, Less-Bullshit Living, The Craft; Games To Play; Evolution, Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems
Digital Therapeutics, (2021-05-26) Pondering a Mental Health space, CoachBot; Inside-Out Markov Chain