Made-for-Advertising (heh MFA) Website (more)

Matt Stoller: The TikTok. Problem Is Not What You Think. While I support the bill, and find most of these objections lacking in credibility, there is some legitimacy to the skepticism, which I’ll get into. But what I want to offer is some basic framing, which is that this legislation has to be understood not as a substitute to a broader movement for reform of social media and privacy, but as part of it. (more)

EFF on Privacy-First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms. Many of the ills of today’s internet have a single thing in common: they are built on a system of corporate surveillance (Surveillance Capitalism). Multiple companies, large and small, collect data about where we go, what we do, what we read, who we communicate with, and so on (more)

EFF: Congress Should Give Up on Unconstitutional TikTok Bans. The only solution to this pervasive ecosystem is prohibiting the collection of our data in the first place. (more)

Jack Dorsey Mobile Payment system. (more)

someone "actively", "consciously" game-playing; vs NPC, acting dead; see esp (2018-03-14) Burja Live Versus Dead Players (more)

go away or I will replace you with a simple shell script! (more)

by James Carse ISBN:0345341848 (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Being Wrong. After a company achieves product/market-fit, things get complex. (more)

Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (ReST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding (more)

Back-justifying your decision-making. (more)

I'm not talking about "tools" as in software or pencils and graph paper. (But I'll reference those at the end of the page.) But rather philosophies, schools of thought, approaches to D-and-D in a New Economy, etc. (more)

aka Sales-led, contra product-led/product-driven

bad business strategy - see Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

Jason Cohen: What makes a business strategy great. These are the characteristics of great strategy. Strategy is: How we will win. (cf Good Strategy/Bad Strategy) (more)

Jacob Falkovich: How to Choose a Goddess (Using a Spreadsheet). (Dating market). The Why and How of Matrixcraft (more)

Dorian Taylor: Spreadsheet Rantifesto. The spreadsheet as the go-to data structure is so lamentable. In general, I never want data as it comes in a spreadsheet. I almost always want it as a graph, or at least a tree. Graphs and trees—at least ordered trees like XML or JSON—can embed tabular data, such as that found in a spreadsheet, but the same cannot be said for the other way around. (more)

Steven Levy: A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge. ..republish a long piece I wrote 30 years ago...The piece first appeared in Harper’s, November 1984. (more)

even shorter than Positioning Statement, customer-targeted (more)

The roadmap for Product/Market Fit… maybe. This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas. (more)