Ken Norton: Product Management Was Born 90 Years Ago Today (Maybe, Sort Of). On May 13, 1931, an up-and-coming 26-year-old Procter & Gamble (P-and-G) employee named Neil H. McElroy issued his famous “Brand Men” memo. (more)

Martin Eriksson: The History and Evolution of Product Management. Modern product management started in 1931 with a memo written by Neil H. McElroy at Procter & Gamble (P-and-G). It started as a justification to hire more people (sound familiar to any product managers out there?) but became a cornerstone in modern thinking about brand management and ultimately product management. (more)

Ben Hoyt: The small web is beautiful. Fifteen years ago, I read E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful. (more)

Matt Stoller: Keep McKinsey Away from Biden's Infrastructure Push. Senator Chuck Schumer recently called the Barack Obama stimulus a “mistake” and “a small measly proposal” on CNN, as a way of selling Joe Biden’s much larger proposals. (more)

PKM/ThinkingSpace framing by Nick Milo - does this "replace" LinkingYourThinking? (more)

Dorian Taylor concept: (2022-09-10) Taylor The Specificity Gradient

kinda like a Taxonomy, but with more clauses defining relationships among terms (more)

Dorian Taylor: A Process Model Ontology: language and exchange format for software applications designed to facilitate project management. This vocabulary extends the IBIS vocabulary in the natural fashion that once we have framed an issue and decided to solve it, we must then specify a method, nominate a person responsible, and allocate time and material resources to carry out the solution. (to-do-list) (more)

Dorian Taylor code - RDF::SAK — Swiss Army Knife for Semantic Web Content. This library can be understood as something of a workbench for the development of a set of patterns and protocols for Web content—a content management meta-system (more)

Talking Heads dude (more)

Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.[1] The band comprised David Byrne (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Frantz (drums and backing vocals), Tina Weymouth (bass and backing vocals) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals). Other musicians also regularly made appearances in concert and on the group's albums. The New Wave style of Talking Heads combined elements of Punk Rock, art rock, funk, avant-garde, pop music, World Music, and Americana. Frontman and songwriter David Byrne contributed neurotic, whimsical lyrics to the band's songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads (more)

a self-improvement course by Garrett Daun of Command Z. https://radicalundoing.com/ (more)

Dorian Taylor: Motivation & Rationale. (for Summer of Protocols) The problem that I'm trying to solve—or at least contribute in some small way to a solution—has been notoriously hard to articulate... (more)

Venkatesh Rao:Text is All You Need. (This essay is part of the Mediocre Computing series.)... I guess we have our first significant, year-defining news of 2023...the initial reactions of the Bing “Sydney” AI (LLM) chatbot. (more)

Dorian Taylor: The Specificity Gradient. The specificity gradient is a term I came up with for a principle that I have held for many years now, that software is, as I said on a podcast back in 2010, a very verbose, very precise incantation specifying how an information system ought to behave. What gets written down as software code is the result of a long chain of deliberation, passing through the hands of numerous stakeholders from sharply different disciplines (more)

Dorian Taylor: Confluence. I will be speaking at the Information Architecture Conference in New Orleans which runs from the 28th of March to April Fool’s. This year I will be expounding upon The Specificity Gradient, a conceptual framework I came up with some time ago (I want to say 2009 or 2010) (2022-09-10 Taylor The Specificity Gradient) (more)

Dorian Taylor: Conference. The 2023 Information Architecture Conference (née Summit) was held in New Orleans.... My own remark is that information architecture, to the extent that it is something solid enough to point at, has always been concerned with the structuring and organizing of information itself, as a substance in its own right. Information architecture, as I wrote many years ago, is about helping people understand their situations, and find the things they’re searching for. (sense-making) (more)

Dorian Taylor: The Nerden of Dorking Paths. ...over the last year and change, I have identified two projects: one for a product and another for a tool to help deliver a service. These are both indefinite as to when they will be “done enough” to be merchantable. They are, to refresh our memories... (more)

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John Cutler: TBM 231: Productivity (The Clash). When times are good, companies develop a mix of good habits and bad habits. When times get tough, they can no longer get by with bad habits. And in many cases, the habits that were a good fit for boom times are no longer a good fit for leaner times. (more)