macro-level Planning (?) for the success of your venture (more)

business strategy book by Richard Rumelt, on need to focus on key addressable strategic challenge (cf bottleneck) (more)

Martin Cagan/Jon Moore: Changing How You Decide Which Problems To Solve. It is not hard to simply take your existing product roadmaps, and for each feature or project, to determine what the underlying problem to solve is, and what the logical way to measure success would be. But are those really the most important problems to be solved for your customers and for your company? (more)

Martin Cagan on Product Strategy - Focus. The importance of truly “picking your battles” as an organization. (more)

Work done, regardless of outcome. Typically frame/anti-pattern of project management and feature teams.

John Cutler: Beyond “Outcomes Over Outputs”. I often meet with teams/individuals that are eager to be more “outcome oriented”). (more)

Steve Blank: Changing your Business Model when it isn't working/growing properly. (more)

Martin Cagan on Vision vs. Strategy. in this article I want to talk more about product vision, and especially how important the role of product strategy is in delivering on the product vision. (more)

Like a Business Strategy or Business Model, but limited to a single Product and its Product Management... party of each product team's strategic context (more)

Boston Consulting Group aka BCG

Steven Johnson: Writing At The Speed Of Thought. NotebookLM, the AI-powered tool for thought I've been building with Google Labs for the past year or so, officially launched to users in the U.S. on Friday (more)

Google’s ‘Project Tailwind’ is an AI notebook that helps with study and more. Google has launched “Project Tailwind,” a new AI-first tool that is effectively a notebook of the future to help you research information as you write about it. (more)

Introducing NotebookLM. At Google I/O this year we introduced a number of AI-first experiments in development, including Project Tailwind — a new kind of notebook designed to help people learn faster. (more)

Steven Levy: Google’s NotebookLM aims to be the ultimate writing assistant. For over a year now, Steven Johnson's been a full-time employee of Google, a status that’s clear when he badges me into the search giant’s Chelsea offices in New York to show me what his team has been creating. (more)

Steven Johnson: Introducing NotebookLM. About five months ago, I shared the news that I was collaborating with Google on a new AI-based tool for thought, then code-named Project Tailwind. (more)

Erin Griffith on the Sharing Economy Framing. Sharing is by definition free — how can it have its own economy if there’s money involved? Sharing for money is called renting. And in the case of Etsy or even old-school “sharing economy” marketplace eBay, there’s no sharing happening at all — it’s just straight-up commerce. I suppose the Renting Economy or the Selling Economy doesn’t sound as promising and magical to the media. It’s not quite “change the world” enough for the high-minded Valley elite, either... Further, they are all Venture Backed. These startups are creating a shadow economy, driven by first-time “entrepreneurs,” a bold choice of name for the many freelancers hawking their homes, cars, time, and expertise to strangers for extra cash. Some of them cobble together a solid living across several of the sites, operating as perma-lancers with no need for a corporate nine to five job. Justin Johnson of Late Labs recently pointed to several examples of the reasonable Middle Class salaries one could make from several of these services. I Commented (Mar05) on Johnson's piece to question the numbers, I think there's major BullShit here. (more)

cannibal grasshopper; see also the locust economy

(Foreign Policy) or Small is Beautiful vibe inspired by Thomas Jefferson

ios to-do list app

A cypherpunk is any individual advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list, informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. Cypherpunks have been engaged in an active movement since at least the late 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk