The Email Marketing and Notifications Evolution Inside Companies. “Stop sending emails like a marketer. Start sending email like a personal assistant.” (more)

Karl Schroeder: Book Review: The Nexus. We’re still mired in bureaucracies designed in the 19th century, our managerial initiatives solve for problems that are not actually the problems that matter, and collectively we’re fighting the last war instead of the current one. We know we need to decarbonize completely within the next decade, for instance, yet CO2 emissions are going up, not down. How can you earn optimism in the face of an insanely complex polycrisis? The thesis of The Nexus, by Julio Mario Ottino, dean of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, and Bruce Mau, designer and artist, is that we are at a critical moment when imagination is absolutely critical for solving our biggest problems, and has simultaneously reached its nadir as a social practice. (more)

Karl Schroeder: Doomscroller vs. Windtunneler? About twenty years ago, the Canadian army hired me to write them a short science fiction novel, and I made a discovery I think you might find useful. (more)

Karl Schroeder: The Science Fiction of the 1900s. I grew up during the cold war and I remember sitting around with friends in high school talking about what we would each do in the 10 to 20 minutes we’d have left after the nuclear attack sirens went off. (more)

Karl Schroeder: Who Paints the Dew on the Daisy? I talked about space settlement (space migration) in my last couple of posts; but this is not a newsletter about that. Space was just an example to illustrate an approach to thinking about complex problems—and a prototype for designing a purely 21st century science fiction. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 255: The New Airbnb (Lenny's Podcast) w/Melissa Perri. You've probably already listened to (or are about to listen to) Lenny's Podcast with Brian Chesky. (2023-11-14-BrianCheskysNewPlaybook) (more)

a lean/agile approach to UX design; specifically a book by Josh Seiden and Jeff Gothelf, ISBN:1449311652

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)