Simon Owens: The enormous media company you've never heard of. aA organization that spans across dozens of channels, tens of millions of subscribers, and billions of views. The name of that organization? Complexly. Complexly is an educational media company run by the brothers Hank Green and John Green. (more)

Ben Hunt Epsilon Theory on Fiat Money, Fiat News. Kurosawa’s Rashomon is the defining movie of an Epsilon Theory world, where Narrative dominates and Truth with a capital T is nowhere to be found. The bandit, the wronged woman, the dead samurai, and the woodcutter witness all testify at trial, and the only certainty, as unsatisfying as it may be, is that we the jury will never know what truly happened in that forest. Such is life. Such is history. (more)

Newspaper Publishing, Book Publishing, Magazine Publishing/Magazine Industry, Academic Publishing, STM Journal Publishing, etc.

the process by which Big Media are owned by a smaller and smaller number of corporations (via M-and-A). (media concentration) (more)

series of books by Tim Dorsey, set (mostly) in Florida (more)

GeePaw Hill: On Agile Methods. This muse is not really about SAFe for the most part, but about all of what the "methodology turn" in our trade produces (more)

John Cutler: TBM 5/52: Three Product Teams. This post will explore three popular models for product teams. (more)

KicksCondor: Twine in the Fourth Grade. At the beginning of the year, the principal came to me and said, “I’m going to have you help with the after-school computer club. It’s a club for fourth- and fifth-graders.” (more)

Jon Udell: Of course the attention economy is threatened by the Fediverse... If you occupy a privileged position in the attention economy, as Megan McArdle (MSM) does now, and as I once did in a more limited way, then no, you won’t see Mastodon as a viable replacement for Twitter. If I were still a quasi-famous columnist I probably wouldn’t either. But I’m no longer employed in the attention economy. I just want to hang out online with people whose words and pictures and ideas intrigue and inspire and delight me, and who might feel similarly about my words and pictures and ideas (more)

Semi-dismissive career advice. See Learning Programming. (more)

EBook "standard" from IDPF (more)

Text Editor from GitHub. https://atom.io/ Sunset Dec15'2022, being forked as PulsarEdit. (more)

aka Object Oriented DataBase, ODB, OODB, OODBMS (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 1/19/23: Flipped Numbers. It was a quiet week. All the longer term news was as one would expect. That is good news. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 1/12/23: Unexpected Spike in Deaths. Quite a lot of deaths got reported by quite a lot of different states this week. Case numbers did not spike, and instead actively declined. What’s going on? It is right after Christmas and New Years, which means the least reliable reporting of the year, and no one cares much anymore – Indiana and Illinois didn’t bother reporting anything on either front – so the obvious explanation is this is a lot of backlog dumping with the new year....What I am not worried about, given the case numbers, is that this wave is going to get out of hand (more)

aka Feature Flag, see also A/B Test. Feature Toggles (often also refered to as Feature Flags) are a powerful technique, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code. They fall into various usage categories, and it's important to take that categorization into account when implementing and managing toggles. Toggles introduce complexity. We can keep that complexity in check by using smart toggle implementation practices and appropriate tools to manage our toggle configuration, but we should also aim to constrain the number of toggles in our system. (more)

Measurement with a goal (more)

For me, Planning Is A processing of making decisions about what actions to take in the future, and making predictions about the outcomes of those actions. (more)

Amy Hoy model/process of picking a market segment of ideal customers, and learning their biggest problems, vocabulary/mindset, etc. (more)

Adrienne Barnes process of building a rich/actionable persona of your ideal customer. (more)