Evan Armstrong: How I Use ChatGPT (As a Reasonable Person). We built a GPT chatbot that we think can solve a significant problem for founders. It’s called Founder’s Friend, it’s free for all ChatGPT subscribers, and it’s available here. (more)

The learning loop revolution. Learning loops combine machine learning with large-scale data sets that are socially provided. But what you provide isn’t your status, your photos, or the books on your reading list. You provide a direct feed into your behavior. (more)

Jonathan Lai and Andrew Chen: The Rise of Lifestyle Streamers. Historically, livestreaming has been synonymous with gaming. Twitch and Mixer. (more)

Sorry, the government’s not paying for your therapy app. New treatments for chronic conditions like opioid addiction, ADHD and insomnia are here and they’re on your smartphone — not in a pill bottle. But the government won’t pay for them. (digital therapeutics) (more)

Martin Cagan: Product Teams vs Project Teams. I should have written this article two years ago, just after I published Product vs. Feature Teams. ((2019-08-29) Cagan Product Vs Feature Teams) (more)

Software Defined Radio project http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/ (more)

aka SDR a radio communication system which can potentially tune to any frequency band and receive any modulation across a large frequency spectrum by means of as few as hardware possible and processing the signals through software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio (more)

Baldur Bjarnason thinks Browser Based Ebook Reader-s are doomed, for similar reasons as Google Wave. If the product’s tentpole feature doesn’t directly help the user at the task they’re using the product for, then the product is likely to fail. In Google Wave’s case the tentpole feature was real-time synchronisation and messaging but the products pitched were chat apps and document collaboration. Neither of the major use cases of Google Wave directly benefited from its tentpole feature. (more)

EBook reader (esp EPub) that uses the Web Browser rather than another Fat Client. (more)

Oct'2010 Live Event about EBook-s being readable in Web Browser-s vs dedicated devices/apps. See BrowserBasedEbookReader. Has become label for the general idea (see related Book Server). (more)

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)