comedian who started in the 1950s, known for pulling lots of his material from that day's newspaper, and using it as a prop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Sahl (more)

see Stand-Up Meeting, Comedian

Milo Yiannopoulos (/jəˈnɒpələs/;[9] né Hanrahan; born 18 October 1984)[1][10][11] is a British right-wing political commentator. His speeches and writings criticise Islam, feminism, social justice, and political correctness.[12][13][14] Yiannopoulos is a former editor of Breitbart News, an American far-right news and opinion website.[15] Yiannopoulos worked for Breitbart from 2014 to 2017. During this time, he rose to prominence as a significant voice in the Gamergate controversy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos

see Breitbart News

4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump (more)

John Robb term - social network supporting Donald Trump for president, as repudiation of the last 50 years (What Happened In The 1970s?).

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States (US President). Before entering politics he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in Queens, New York City, and earned an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He then took charge of The Trump Organization, the real estate and construction firm founded by his paternal grandmother, which he ran for four and a half decades until 2017. During his real estate career, Trump has built, renovated, and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Besides real estate, he started several side ventures and has licensed the use of his name for the branding of various products and properties. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he hosted The Apprentice, a Reality TV series on NBC, from 2004 to 2015. His calculated net worth as of 2017 is $3.5 billion, making him the 544th richest person in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump (more)

Gail Alexrod: How to Measure Product Market Fit with Superhuman Founder Rahul Vohra. They’re both even necessary. So the PMF score (very disappointed) measures a level of dependency on a product, either because there’s such a strong emotional connection or because nothing else exists quite like it. The NPS score on the other hand measures how strong your word of mouth effect is. In other words, how strong or how viral rather your product can be in the real world. In practice, one is not better than the other. You need both to build a meaningful company. One is gonna determine the fundamental success of the product, and the other is going to determine your distribution success (more)

Connie Chan is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she focuses on investing in consumer technology. Connie joined the firm in 2011 as a deal partner on the investment team before becoming a general partner in 2018. She serves on the boards of Cider, Whatnot, and KoBold. Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Connie worked at HP leading its webOS efforts in China. She started her career as a private equity investor at Elevation Partners, investing in media and entertainment. https://a16z.com/author/connie-chan/

Can ChatGPT help with product management? (more)

Refined-standard MarkDown. http://commonmark.org/ (more)

Welcome to Viv Games -- Small but Mighty (more)

from (2022-11-30) Nadia Mapping Out The Tribes Of Climate

Nadia Asparouhova: Mapping out the tribes of climate. Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer?... What I found instead is that while the media still portrays climate change as a simple question of beliefs, the climate field has long moved on to diversified solutions. Whether one believes in climate change is no longer the interesting question; now it’s “What do you think is the right approach?” (more)

see framing

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian (before-Christopher Columbus) Americas. It was the 2006 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public's understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine. The book presents recent research findings in different fields that suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous (peak of 100 million), had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought...By the time the Europeans arrived in numbers to supplant the indigenous population in the Americas, the previous dominant people had been almost eliminated, mostly by disease (brought by Europeans since 1492). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus ISBN:1400032059 (more)

The eight-circuit model of consciousness (sometimes capitalized) is a theory in psychology, first proposed by Tim Leary. It consists of several quantum psychological systems that unify the various interpretations of the main altered states of consciousness into one coherent meta-theory. The most basic part describes, in a simple outline, eight circuits of information (colloquially "brains") that operate within the human nervous system. Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli have all written about each circuit in depth and how each operates in the lives of human beings, both individually and collectively. (e.g. "eight circuits of consciousness") (more)

Michael Nielsen has a thread suggesting a mashup of James Scott, legibility, Gall's Law, Jane Jacobs, Chesterton's fence, OODA loops, Daron Acemoglu et al on Radical Reform, & Red Plenty... with a big dose of Elinor Ostrom as well. (more)

Scott Alexander: The Consequences Of Radical Reform. So maybe the moral of the story is something like - replacing stagnation and entrenched interests with good reform is good, and with bad reform is bad. Which sounds obvious, but I do think that considerations of "is this potentially challenging a carefully evolved system of traditions?" is less important than I originally believed. (more)

site that calculates walkable ratings of cities/neighborhoods https://www.walkscore.com/cities-and-neighborhoods/ The 130 cities we rate with a population of 200,000 or greater have an average Walk Score of 48.