John Cutler notes a Product Leader (PL) facing many people with different opinions about how to change the Product org. (What they have in common is the desire for change. Final outcome needs to be some variety of Agile Product Development.) (more)

I created A Diagram of Effects of the AntiPatterns in a Product/Dev Team in Miro. Making agile product development unlikely. (more)

Third Voice was a web annotation browser plug-in launched in 1999 by a company of the same name.[2] The motto associated with the plug-in was:Your Web. Your Voice..[1] The plug-in allowed users to use a sidebar to annotate web sites with note and view notes left by other users.[3] A small red triangle indicated an annotation had been left by another party, these annotations not being held on the website itself but on Third Voice's own servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice

a Senior Housing format

John Le Carre's Son Penning New George Smiley Spy Novel. John le Carré‘s famous spy character George Smiley hasn’t retired quite yet. Nick Harkaway, le Carré’s son, is writing a new Smiley novel that will publish globally in fall 2024 (more)

Martin Cagan: The Seven Deadly Sins of Product Planning. Product planning is a big topic that many product organizations struggle with. It spans a range of activities including business strategy, product strategy, product roadmaps, portfolio management, opportunity assessments, project planning and tracking, and project oversight (project management). (more)

Martin Cagan: The Power of Visiontypes. I met someone that tried to argue to me that Apple was “an extremely successful company even though they didn’t know how to innovate.” I wasn’t sure I was hearing this correctly. The person went on to point out how in the early days of Apple, Steve Jobs got a demo at Xerox PARC (the renown Palo Alto Research Center) of an early desktop computer with a graphical user interface, and he “just copied that.” (more)

Maggie Appleton on Ambient Co-presence (Ambient Presence). The Context: It's hard to create a subtle sense of shared, synchronous space among multiple people on the web. (more)

Ryan Singer: What's the unit of impact? Product Managers often prioritize work by something called "impact." But too often what a PM considered "high impact" doesn't get a green light from leadership. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 265: Rebuilding Trust and Breaking Free From Trust Proxies and The Swirl. We will explore how trust issues—especially among senior leaders—can greatly impact an organization (and why it is so hard to address these issues). (more)

"being there/available" in a "chill" way; esp important in a digital collaboration context where you can't see whether your co-worker is heads-down or up/stretching....

Author. Harkaway was born Nicholas Cornwell in Cornwall. He is the son of Valerie Jane Eustace and author David Cornwell, known under his pen name John le Carré (John le Carre). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Harkaway

to do something massive, preferably in a good way (Progress in Evolution) (more)

My Role-based 25-Year Vision Document, from Effective Entrepreneur (more)

Co-creator spy magazine

We build identity, data, and compute solutions for the future of the Internet. https://fission.codes/ (more)

project which became NotebookLM

see GoogleDocs

Google notebook+LLM app https://notebooklm.google/ (more)

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