Itamar Gilad: Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management? The product-sphere is boiling-over over an interview with Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of AirBnB, in which he said that the company no longer has a product management function - PM has been merged with product-marketing-management (PMM). (more)

co-founder, AirBnb

someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain (Context). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert (more)

Steve Blank: Lean Meets Wicked Problems. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. (A few of these projects address climate change, but are they big levers? ((2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future)) (more)

Society Design theory: decisions at all levels can/should be biased toward "local" Agency. (more)

Ash Maurya likes a staged Product Launch for his Lean Startup, sizing up 10x at each stage. But from the very first stage, he's dealing with paying customers.

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 (more)

virtual-mental health company

Game Rules that can have huge effects (Leverage, Side Effect) to Change The World. Games To Play toward Worldview Roadmap. (cf Theory of Change, Huge Invention) (more)

Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation ISBN:9781804291245 (more)

keeping information unknown from some 3rd parties, contra Surveillance Capitalism and the Surveillance State (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The Kids are Not Okay. Suicide attempts are up. Depressive episodes are way up... Spoiler alert, I’m going to blame the smartphones and social media. (more)

idea of a variation/subset of the World Wide Web which has fewer of the ugly bits (Small World) - less advertising/surveillance capitalism? less disinformation? less web browser monoculture? More Indie? (more)

Game Engine https://godotengine.org/ Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. (more)

GIMP Toolkit (more)

FrameWork for Fat Client GUI building in Python. (more)

Aral Balkan: What is the Small Web? To understand what the Small Web is, let’s compare it to the Big Web. In other words, to the centralised Web we have today. The Big Web is the centralised web; it is a web in the sense of a spider’s web. The spiders that sit at its centre waiting to suck you dry are Big Tech people farmers like Facebook, Google, etc. (more)

I’m developing the Small Web at Small Technology Foundation. The tools I’m building are called Kitten and Domain. https://ar.al/ (more)

studied maths in Heidelberg and Glasgow; from 1981 to 2016 in the Computer Center of the University. Initially in network infrastructure. Since the early gopher days, I have drifted more and more towards content. https://x28newblog.wordpress.com aka x28

Jan Stepien: Branching Paths · Grazing the Web. The Web that we have right now is a curious evolution of the Web of the noughties (more)