process of testing your product's usability with actual ideal customers

product management guru https://melissaperri.com/, author Escaping the Build Trap ISBN:978-1491973790

see BootStrapping (more)

kinda like a pattern language for an individual organization's web design (or other design) efforts - an attempt to let individual teams/designers work independently without getting an inconsistent mess. (more)

CascadingStyleSheets (more)

Joe Kraus: If You Don't Think You Need It, You Haven't Seen Greatness. One thing I can hear with some regularity from a small founding team is something like “we don’t think we need a marketing person” or “we’re not going to hire a product manager”. Those aren’t the only positions I hear that statement for. I hear it for PR, marketing, HR and sometimes BD. (more)

W Edwards Deming: I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system (responsibility of management), 6% special (individual/blame/credit). (from Out of the Crisis) (more)

a W Edwards Deming experiment/demonstration of the Deming 94% (more)

un-remarkable, average, status quo, middle mind; mediocre, premium-mediocre, b-ark

Amazon Fire Tablet - 2019-07-14-BoughtAmazonFireHd8 (more)

Broke down and made some geek purchases on Amazon Prime Day: (more)

see Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (more)

Celine: Communication is possible only between equals. (power) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws#Celine.27s_Second_Law (more)

Tool/process of tracking quantity/quality of Sleep. See my sleep logs

Improving Deep Sleep May Prevent Dementia, Study Finds. As little as 1 per cent reduction in deep sleep per year for people over 60 years of age translates into a 27 per cent increased risk of dementia, according to a Monash study which suggests that enhancing or maintaining deep sleep, also known as slow wave sleep, in older years could stave off dementia. (sleep tracking) (more)

Dementia is the general name for a decline in cognitive abilities that impacts a person's ability to perform everyday activities. This typically involves problems with memory, thinking, and behavior. Aside from memory impairment and a disruption in thought patterns, the most common symptoms include emotional problems, difficulties with language, and decreased motivation... Several diseases and injuries to the brain such as a stroke can give rise to dementia. However, the most common cause is Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens.[2] It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia.[2][11] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events.[1] As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation (including easily getting lost), mood swings, loss of motivation, self-neglect, and behavioral issues.[2] As a person's condition declines, they often withdraw from family and society.[12] Gradually, bodily functions are lost, ultimately leading to death.[13] Although the speed of progression can vary, the typical life expectancy following diagnosis is three to nine years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease

"inspiration" to try to make huge invention, attack Grand Challenge, Change the World, 10x, vs being "ordinary" (more)

aka Alpha Male, Alpha Chimp (Primate). In social animals, the alpha is the individual in the community with the highest rank (status, power). Where one male and one female fulfill this role, they are referred to as the alpha pair (the term varies when several females fulfill this role – it is extremely rare among mammals for several males to fulfill this role with one female). Other animals in the same social group may exhibit deference or other symbolic signs of respect particular to their species towards the alpha. The alpha animals are given preference to be the first to eat and the first to mate; among some species they are the only animals in the pack (Tribe) allowed to mate. Other animals in the community are usually killed or ousted if they violate this rule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(ethology) (more)

David Cummings: The 10x Exercise for Entrepreneurs. Once an entrepreneur has gained some traction, product-market fit, and the beginnings of a repeatable customer acquisition process, one of my favorite exercises for them is the 10X scale. (more)