DevOps Research and Assessment. DevOps company started by Gene Kim, Jez Humble and Dr. Nicole Forsgren. Acquired by Google Dec'2018. A central piece of DORA’s work—the Four Key Metrics—was recently highlighted by ThoughtWorks Technology Radar as a technique to check the success of technology transformations. In addition, DORA’s research is highlighted in the bestselling book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, authored by three of DORA’s founders. https://www.devops-research.com/

part of the customer discovery process

Jason Cohen says (Selling to Carol): Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected) you should Focus your product messaging on your "perfect customer" (Ideal Customer, User Scenarios). You have to communicate in a picture and a few words. The good news is you have to please only Carol, and you know Carol. You even know she’ll honestly be thrilled to find you. If your ad can’t grab Carol’s attention — your perfect customer — why do you think it will grab anyone else’s attention? If you still say it’s impossible to communicate your message in 5-10 seconds, no one in the world will get your message. (more)

ideal customer profile

Axie Infinity is a NFT-based online video game developed by Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis,[1] which uses Ethereum-based cryptocurrency AXS (Axie Infinity Shards) and SLP (Smooth Love Potion). Currently it's the most expensive NFTs collection with more than $42 million in sales in June 2021.[2] Game cryptocurrency is the main daily income (gold farming) for some people in developing countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axie_Infinity

Nat Eliason 275: The Generational Wealth Opportunity. Pull the right levers (leverage), and you can 10-100x your earning potential by learning how to produce the work of many people. Or, by learning how to reach many more people with your work. (more)

Nat Eliason: The Life-Changing Magic of High-Speed Career Sampling. Well it seems I’m a crypto developer now. I deployed my first set of four smart contracts last weekend. (more)

Print-to-disk format used by Adobe Acrobat. Sometimes used for EBook publishing. Just horrible, pls use epub. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: Lessons learned from a startup that didn’t make it. Recently, in the process of shutting down his startup, Jake Fuentes (co-founder and CEO of Cascade) jotted down his biggest lessons from the journey. (more)

organization helping develop or grow Start Ups (or forever-SmallCos) (more)

Martin Cagan: Process People. For many years I’ve subscribed to the idea that in a product organization, there are essentially two types of contributors: makers and managers.... The only real question has been regarding product managers. (more)

Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis (Greek: Ιωάννης Γεωργίου "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης, romanized: Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis, pronounced [ˈʝaniz varuˈfacis]; born 24 March 1961)[2][3] is a Greek economist and politician... From January 2004 to December 2006, Varoufakis served as economic advisor to George Papandreou, of whose government he was to become an ardent critic a few years later... Beginning in March 2012, Varoufakis became economist-in-residence at video game publisher, Valve Software. He researched exchange rates within the virtual economy on the Steam digital delivery platform, specifically looking at exchange rates and trade deficits. In June 2012, he began a blog about his research at Valve. In February 2013 his function at Valve was to work on a game for predicting trends in gaming.... Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he was a member of Syriza and was Greece's Minister of Finance between January 2015 and July 2015, negotiating on behalf of the Greek government during the 2009-2018 Greek government-debt crisis (Grexit). Varoufakis was first elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament with Syriza, representing the Athens B constituency from January to September 2015. He was appointed Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, two days after the election, serving in this role between January 2015 and July 2015. Varoufakis then represented Thessaloniki A from July 2019 to May 2023 as a MeRA25 Member of Parliament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

Some key phrases: Game Rule, Game Playing, Zero-Sum, Non-Zero-Sum/Positive-Sum, Cooperative Game, Games Theory; Finite and Infinite Games, Finite Game vs Infinite Game; Meta-Game; Ill-structured.... (more)

there are many Finite Games: There Is But One Infinite Game. Vs Ill-Structured?

Epicurus (/ˌɛpɪˈkjʊərəs/, EH-pih-KURE-əs;[2] Greek: Ἐπίκουρος Epikouros; 341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus

Peter Albert David Singer AC (born 6 July 1946)[2] is an Australian moral philosopher and the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues for vegetarianism, and the essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", which favours donating to help the global poor. For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian, but he revealed in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), coauthored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer

In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals.[1][2] In other words, utilitarian ideas encourage actions that ensure the greatest good for the greatest number... Utilitarianism is a version of consequentialism, which states that the consequences of any action are the only standard of right and wrong... Though the seeds of the theory can be found in the hedonists Aristippus and Epicurus, who viewed happiness as the only good, and in the work of the medieval Indian philosopher Śāntideva, the tradition of modern utilitarianism began with Jeremy Bentham, and continued with such philosophers as John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, R. M. Hare, and Peter Singer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873)[1] was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century" by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,[2] he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control (see esp On Liberty).[3] Mill was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

Uttara Sutradhar, Lauryn Spearing & Sybil Derrible: Depopulation and associated challenges for US cities by 2100. ...possibly leading to disruptions in basic services like transit, clean water, electricity and internet access. Simultaneously, increasing population trends in resource-intensive suburban and periurban cities will probably take away access to much needed resources in depopulating areas, further exacerbating their challenges. See also toots with screenshots of data. (more)

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