Tiago Forte: How to Thrive in a World of Uncertainty (VUCA). The future has become so uncertain that goals are now obsolete. (no-goals) (more)
Nate Eliason: The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas. ...people approach idea generation like baking or cooking, a precise practice that you can squeeze into a 50-minute meeting block or a daily regiment of “write down 10 ideas.” But brines don’t care about your 50-minute meeting block. They bubble when they’re ready (more)
Ibrahim Bashir: Writing is Building. I’ve been thinking recently about what I’m building with this newsletter. More and more, I find myself treating it like a product (more)
Integrating LinkBlog, BookMark, MicroBlogging Into WikiLog... (more)
I'm pondering Threading Across Twitter And Digital Gardens.... (more)
Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social network. It is an open protocol that can support many clients, just like email. https://www.farcaster.xyz/ (more)
microblog.pub - A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog. https://docs.microblog.pub/ (more)
Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian mobile application developer, founded in 2013 and based in Milan. The company is known primarily for iOS mobile apps, including Splice, 30 Day Fitness, Live Quiz, and Remini.[2] In November 2022, it agreed to acquire Evernote.[3] Bending Spoons is one of the world's leading mobile developers, by number of app downloads.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons
Hometown: a Mastodon fork created by Darius Kazemi https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown (more)
PixelFed - Federated Image Sharing https://pixelfed.org/ (more)
Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 11/17/22: Slow Recovery. While the news has been fast and furious on many fronts, Covid is not one of them. (more)
Mastodon Was Designed to Be a Nazi-Free Twitter. Now It's Home to Gab. Mastodon was launched as a decentralized, social justice friendly Twitter alternative that was free of Nazis and harassment. But two years later, the biggest Mastodon instance is now Gab, a far-right social media network known widely as a gathering space for white supremacists (more)
Nolan Lawson: Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system. This incident demonstrates that a large-scale harassment attack by motivated actors is not only possible in the fediverse, but is arguably easier than in a centralized system like Twitter or Facebook, where automated tools can help moderators to catch dogpiling as it happens. (more)
Evernote's Next Move: Joining the Bending Spoons Suite of Apps. Today we are pleased to announce that Evernote has agreed to join Bending Spoons, a leading developer of stand-out mobile apps. (more)
The Impassioned Moderate: Ryan Reynolds didn’t pay close enough attention to The Matrix. News came out a few weeks ago that Bending Spoons, a consumer app studio, raised a massive $340 million round of financing. The press gushed about it: “Hollywood star, tech execs invest in Italian start-up Bending Spoons”, “Ryan Reynolds invests in 'terrifying' Italian start-up Bending”. (more)
Brent Simmons: After Twitter. For writers, artists, podcasters, journalists, and people who make things in public, Twitter was the one social networking site we all had to use. (more)
Dorian Taylor: Muskus/Domesticus 🐀 Prior to Twitter, I got my up-to-the-second situational information mainly from IRC, supplemented by a rotating cast of one-off, bespoke private message boards, and finally, RSS. (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