GeePawHill describes certain books as "HELS" - "high-end-layperson-suitable". A good To-Read list. (more)
Zvi Mowshowitz: The Twitter Files: Covid-19 Edition. I’ll walk through the thread... A common dunk on The Twitter Files has been ‘oh look at these records that show a reasonable company acting completely reasonably.’ That is not a dunk (more)
Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/22/22: Reevaluating Past Options. Here in America, things are quiet. It seems like it was a good week to look back, as MR did, upon our options regarding focused protection, and what we can take away from that. (more)
Visakan Veerasamy: Santa Is Real. I’m almost kinda mad at how good the above meme is at distilling everything I was initially hoping to say in this essay. But maybe it’s still worth talking about it. (more)
Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/15/22: China’s Wave Begins. China stopped attempting to contain Covid-19. They have accepted that the costs of continuing to do this are unacceptably high. Instead, they have decided they are content to contain official case numbers while they brace for the impact of the Covid surge they have successfully put off for three years (more)
Brian Marick: Tinkerable software and Mastodon. (more)
Martin Cagan: Where To Work (as a product manager)? I have shared publicly the names of several excellent companies that are built on true product teams. Google, Netflix, Amazon, Stripe, Atlassian and Apple are some of the well-known names. And there are many excellent startups and growth-stage companies, far too many to list. (more)
Fernando Borretti: Unbundling Tools for Thought. Short version: Tools for thought promise to let you centralize and hyperlink all your data. In practice 95% of the use cases can be naturally unbundled into disjoint apps, and the lack of centralization and cross-app hyperlinking has no real negative effects. (more)
Scott Alexander: The Media Very Rarely Lies. When the media misinforms people, it does so by misinterpreting things, excluding context, or signal-boosting some events while ignoring others, not by participating in some bright-line category called “misinformation”. (more)
The Twitter Files are a series of Twitter threads based on internal Twitter, Inc. documents shared by owner Elon Musk (Musk Buys Twitter) with freelance journalist Matt Taibbi, opinion writer Bari Weiss, and author Michael Shellenberger in December 2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the release of the documents with Twitter management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files cf content moderation (more)
like Energy Accounting, but for Carbon - to support carbon market (carbon tax) (more)
Context: mid-life crisis, existential angst (more)
Book I want to write. (Will probably end up with Self Published very-ThinBook EBook.) (more)
The halo effect (sometimes called the halo error) is the tendency for positive impressions of a person, company, brand, or product in one area to positively influence one's opinion or feelings in other areas.[1][2] Halo effect is “the name given to the phenomenon whereby evaluators tend to be influenced by their previous judgments of performance or personality.”[3] The halo effect is a cognitive bias which can possibly prevent someone from accepting a person, a product or a brand based on the idea of an unfounded belief on what is good or bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect (more)
Andrew Zolli on the UniFon phonetic alphabet. (more)
Book by Geoffrey Moore on Marketing of high-tech products (or you could just consider it to be Business Strategy) - basically dealing with the Technology Adoption Life Cycle. Specifically, how to make your product, which is already accepted by Innovator and Early Adopter buyers, acceptable/attractive to the Pragmatist Consumer. ISBN:0060517123 (more)
Developers have multiple ways of helping each other: pair programming, code review... Shouldn't Product Managers have the same thing? (more)
Product Management process of always (every week) (iterative) doing Product Discovery. (more)
Agile Software Development practice - two engineers participate in one development effort at one workstation. Each member performs the action the other is not currently doing: While one types in Unit Test-s the other thinks about the class that will satisfy the test, for example. (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