Dev who's 10x faster (velocity) than anyone else? Company changing a lot (Think Big)? (For the latter, I often use 4x as a framing because 2x feels incrementally-reachable, and 10x feels too pie-in-the-sky.)

aka Unique Value Proposition, see also Positioning

TeamWiki WikiEngine from Atlassian http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ (more)

Martin Cagan: Alternatives To Product Managers. I doubt anyone is surprised to learn that many people have been asking me about Brian Chesky’s recent comments. ((2023-11-14) Brian Chesky's New Playbook) (more)

see mediocrity, premium mediocre

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head of the Product Management function. aka CPO... or, in a large company with truly different Products, the product-head for each Product will be considered a Product Leader, with team-specific Product Managers reporting to him. (more)

Martin Cagan: Meaningful Transformation: adopting techniques such as Agile methods for delivery (agile software development) may be necessary, but they are nowhere near sufficient. (more)

"What looks like a Crisis is often simply the end of an Illusion." (theater) -Jerry Weinberg (Rhonda’s First Revelation: It May Look Like a Crisis, But It’s Only the End of An Illusion.) - link (more)

Being consistent. Being "internally tuned", like a laser. (more)

one of the founders of Apple Computer, and key sponsor of the Apple Macintosh. (You Are Not Steve Jobs.) (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: Brian Chesky's new playbook. Today my guest is Brian Chesky. Brian is the CEO and co-founder of Airbnb. I was very lucky to get to work with Brian for many years, and my sense is if you ask people who they consider the most inspiring tech or business leaders today, Brian would be right near the top of that list. (more)

form of Exercise that involves or improves oxygen consumption by the body. Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's metabolic or energy-generating process. Many types of exercise are aerobic, and by definition are performed at moderate levels of intensity for extended periods of time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic_exercise (more)

A shakuhachi (Japanese: 尺八, pronounced [ɕakɯhat͡ɕi]) is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo. The bamboo end-blown flute now known as the shakuhachi was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the fuke shakuhachi (普化尺八)... The sound of the shakuhachi is also featured from time to time in electronica, pop and rock, especially after being commonly shipped as a "preset" instrument on various synthesizers and keyboards beginning in the 1980s.[32] The General MIDI standard assigns the shakuhachi to programm number 78. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuhachi (more)

Robin Sloan: Expressive temperature. This is a very niche post documenting a technique I think might be useful to artists—especially musicians—who want to work with material sampled from machine learning systems. (Generative Music) (more)

Developer, Internet Marketing guy https://gilesbowkett.com/ was http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/ (more)

Robin Sloan: In the Stacks (Maisie's Tune). I’m a librarian, so of course I was picking melted plastic out of the 3D printer when I heard the news that Maisie Martin had died. (more)

Design for the World Wide Web (more)

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