Processing of passport applications is backing up at the State Department. It's very frustrating. (more)

Revisiting old AppWiki and WikiProxy ideas, because pondering (more)

Ivo Velitchkov presentation on Personal Knowledge Graphs (backlinked PKM) (more)

nanoGPT is a rewrite of minGPT that prioritizes teeth over education. Still under active development, but currently the file train.py reproduces GPT-2 (124M) on OpenWebText, running on a single 8XA100 40GB node in about 4 days of training https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT (built in Python) (more)

HTML-focused thin JavaScript framework from Postlight folks. https://postlight.github.io/trimmings/ (2019-08-29) Postlight Back To Html Introducing Trimmings (more)

Cory Doctorow: How monopoly enshittified Amazon. In Bezos's original plan, the company called "Amazon" was called "Relentless," due to its ambition to be "Earth's most customer-centric company." Today, Amazon is an enshittified endless scroll of paid results, where winning depends on ad budgets, not quality. (enshittification) (more)

Product Camp Chicago again (more)

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a type of globally unique identifier that enables an entity to be identified in a manner that is verifiable, persistent (as long as the DID controller desires), and does not require the use of a centralized registry.[1] DIDs enable a new model of decentralized digital identity that is often referred to as self-sovereign identity or decentralized identity.[2] They are an important component of decentralized web applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier (more)

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is an approach to digital identity that gives individuals control over the information they use to prove who they are to websites, services, and applications across the web. Without SSI, individuals with persistent accounts (identities) across the internet must rely on a number of large identity providers, such as Facebook (Facebook Connect) and Google (Google Sign-In), that have control of the information associated with their identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity

John Seddon is a British occupational psychologist and author, specialising in change in the service industry. He is the managing director of Vanguard, a consultancy company he formed in 1985 and the inventor of 'The Vanguard Method'. Vanguard currently operates in eleven countries. Seddon is a visiting professor at Buckingham University Business School. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seddon (more)

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Failure Demand The concept of failure demand was first described by John Seddon in his book “I Want You to Cheat”, published in 1992. It was initially called “demand we don’t want” and later, after much careful thought, re-named “failure demand”. (more)

product team agency

Venkatesh Rao term: something fundamentally mediocre (lowish value/quality), but with some extra-yet-pointless feature that makes it seem better. e.g. paying for signalling. Or even an entire Lifestyle Design outcome. (more)

You are not Steve Jobs, I am not Steve Jobs, your boss/CEO certainly isn't Steve Jobs.

The purpose of a system is what it does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does (more)

framing by Kent Beck of business stages requiring different processes/trade-offs: Explore, Expand, Extract (cf PMF) (more)

John Cutler: TBM 227: Explicit vs. Implicit Strategy. I've been (slowly) reading Richard Rumelt's new book, The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists (more)

Gordon Brander: Noosphere at Summer of Protocols. I gave a talk about Noosphere Protocol at the Summer of Protocols program. (more)