Demonstration. cf prototype, demo or die, mother of all demos

Cedric Chin: The Idea Maze. A good founder is thus capable of anticipating which turns lead to treasure and which lead to certain death... What is the Idea Maze? In a sentence: the Idea Maze is the process of exploration required to nail down all the components of a successful product. (more)

Cedric Chin: Brief Notes on the Idea Maze. In this piece, I want to talk a little about what’s leapt out to me while I wrote and researched these cases. (2022-08-23-ChinTheIdeaMazeCases) (more)

Cedric Chin case on General Magic - The Future, Too Early. In 1989, Apple employee Marc Porat conceptualised what was essentially an early version of the smartphone. The device, named Pocket Crystal, was a touchscreen mobile computer (more)

Cedric Chin: MsOffice case - Suite Success. Pre-1995, however, Office was nowhere near as dominant. Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect — not Excel and Word — were the respective market leaders in the spreadsheet and word processing application categories (more)

Cedric Chin TikTok case - One Very Long Year. It’s clear that TikTok has captured global attention. As of press time in 2022, they have about 1.6 billion monthly active users. (more)

Cedric Chin: What I Learnt From Complexity. Complexity by M Mitchell Waldrop is one of those weird books where I finish reading it and think "ahh, that was a good yarn, it's totally not useful" and then proceed to have my entire worldview changed in the subsequent months. (more)

Cedric Chin Instagram case - The Bigger Picture. Instagram’s origins may be traced back to the personal life of its co-founder Kevin Systrom. As a junior at Stanford, Systrom built a side project called Photobox — a website that allowed people to upload images for sharing or printing. It was often used at Systrom’s fraternity parties. (more)

Cedric Chin review Teaching Tech Together. This is a summary of a 🌳 tree book on teaching computer programming to beginners. This summary of Greg Wilson’s Teaching Tech Together is going to be a little different from the other book summaries I’ve done on Commonplace. (more)

Cedric Chin: The Shape of a Technological Window. Regard this (extremely opinionated) synthesis piece as a prompt, to prime you to come up with your own set of opinions. (see also (2022-11-29) Chin Technological Windows) (more)

Cedric Chin case AmazonPrime - Burn to Grow. Amazon’s growth story hit an unexpected snag in Q3 of 2004. Its online retail store was still growing, but at a slower pace compared to Q3 of the previous year (more)

Cedric Chin: Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously. A couple of weeks ago, Frederik Gieschen published a summary of the Nomad Investment Partnership letters. (more)

Cedric Chin case: The iPhone Keyboard - Make It or Break It. The first ever iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in 2007, (more)

Cedric Chin case PayPal - The Beamers Didn't Come. The PayPal we are familiar with evolved out of a 1998 technology startup named Fieldlink. Its co-founders, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek, were initially focused on providing security services for enterprise customers with handheld devices. (more)

Cedric Chin: Good Synthesis is the Start of Good Sensemaking. Let us pretend that you are a laminate manufacturer. (more)

Sequel Ace is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL & MariaDB databases. https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace (more)

Martin Reeves: The Crux with Richard Rumelt Rumelt discusses his new book, The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists, suggesting that good business strategy is about identifying specific gnarly challenges and finding a way to conquer them. (more)

Moms for Liberty is an American conservative political organization that advocates against school curricula that mention LGBT rights, race and ethnicity, critical race theory, and discrimination.[1][2][3][4] Multiple chapters have also campaigned to ban books that address sex and gender from school libraries.[1][5][6] Founded in January 2021, the group began by campaigning against COVID-19 restrictions in schools, including mask and vaccine mandates.[1] Moms for Liberty is influential within the Republican Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moms_for_Liberty cf parents' rights

Critical race theory (CRT) is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing how social and political laws and media shape (and are shaped by) social conceptions of race and ethnicity. CRT also considers racism to be systemic in various laws and rules, and not only based on individuals' prejudices.[1][2] The word critical in the name is an academic reference to critical thinking, critical theory, and scholarly criticism, rather than criticizing or blaming individuals... Academic critics of CRT argue it is based on storytelling instead of evidence and reason, rejects truth and merit, and undervalues liberalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

The parents' rights movement is a civil rights movement whose members are primarily interested in issues affecting fathers, mothers and children related to family law, including child custody. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents%27_rights_movement (more)