MH Sub I, LLC, doing business as Internet Brands, is a digital media, marketing services, and software company based in El Segundo, California, United States, that operates online media, community, e-commerce, and SaaS businesses in vertical markets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Brands (more)

Martin Cagan on High-Integrity Commitments. In most Agile teams, when you mention commitments (like knowing what you’re going to launch and when it will happen), you get reactions ranging from squirming to denial. (more)

A High-Integrity Commitment is basically a project with a deadline, within the context of product teams that should minimize them. Inherently shifts focus from outcome to output. Beware its presence among your OKRs, you might be creating Feature Teams.

Rahul Vohra Shares Superhuman's Product-Market Fit Framework. We had set up shop and started coding Superhuman in 2015. A year later, our team had grown to seven and we were still furiously coding. By the summer of 2017, we had reached 14 people — and we were still coding. I felt intense pressure to launch, from the team and also from within myself. (more)

Erik Hoel is an American neuroscientist,[1] neurophilosopher[2] and fiction writer. His main areas of research are the study and philosphy of consciousness, cognition, biological function of dreams, and mathematical theories of emergence. He is noted for using information theory and causal analysis to develop mathematical models to explore and understand the basis of consciousness and dreams.[3][4][5][6] Hoel holds a PhD. degree in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30 – Science.[7] He is currently working as a research assistant professor at Tufts university.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Hoel (more)

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Future #65: Where the game's made up and the points don't matter (more)

Cedric Chin: The Dangers of Treating Life as a Game. Late last year I wrote an essay titled Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win? which seems to have haunted a great many people. (2021-09-21-ChinAreYouPlayingToPlayOrPlayingToWin) (more)

Cedric Chin: To Get Good, Go After The Metagame. Every sufficiently interesting game has a metagame above it. This is the game about the game. It is often called ‘the meta’. (more)

"another fucking opportunity for growth"; see SelfImprovement; sometimes ordered as AFGO,

I'm pondering some thoughts around gardening an Agile Product Development process, inspired by (more)

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

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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)

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)

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)