umbrella term covering variety of techniques of reducing costs while improving quality: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_care (more)

when a new user first realizes the value of your product and why they need it, ideally (but rarely?) happens during first visit (onboarding, AARRR, north-star playbook) (more)

Nick Mehta: Three Reasons Why a High Churn SaaS Business Will (Probably) Never Make Money. Profitability in SaaS comes down to three variables: (more)

Increasing momentum in your StartUp success - growth in revenue or other key Metric (contribution margin) (more)

a variety of Direct Marketing

it's nice to base plans on the idea of being Always On, but in the short-term (at least), data needs to be replicated (Data Synch) for Off-Line access (data and processing). (more)

aka Direct Response Marketing (more)

creator of Eden Alternative and other projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Thomas_(physician) https://drbillthomas.org/ (more)

On-site care, data and Dr. Bill Thomas, Lifesprk’s independence officer: Lifesprk’s CEO Joel Theisen talks about the company’s $30 million tech investment on the way to a new model. Lifesprk recently acquired 35 Tealwood Senior Living. (Lifespark) (more)

Meet @Fiatjaf, The Mysterious Nostr Creator Who Has Lured 18 Million Users And $5 Million From Jack Dorsey. Disenchanted with social media options like Twitter, the reclusive Bitcoin programmer tells Forbes how he designed his chat-and-payment service for people who dislike corporate control. (more)

Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI),[2] reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.[3] There are competing theories explaining hypnosis and related phenomena. Altered state theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary state of consciousness.[4][5] In contrast, non-state theories see hypnosis as, variously, a type of placebo effect,[6][7] a redefinition of an interaction with a therapist[8] or a form of imaginative role enactment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis

Self Improvement via Stress Reduction? (more)

Monsters and Magical Sticks: There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis? by Steven Heller ISBN:1935150634 (more)

Marketo, Inc. is an American software company, with its headquarters in San Mateo, California. Marketo develops and sells marketing automation software for account-based marketing and other marketing services and products, including SEO and content creation.[1][2][3] In 2018, Marketo was acquired by Adobe Systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketo (more)

Nostr is a decentralized network protocol for a distributed social networking system. The name is an acronym for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It was designed with goals of censorship-resistance in mind... As of April 2023, Nostr was primarily popular with Bitcoin users.[3] Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, endorses and has financially supported the development of Nostr by donating approximately $250,000 worth of bitcoin to the developers of the project.[3][4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr

aka "Culture Eats Strategy for breakfast" (business strategy) (more)

Stian Haklev: Can we agree on the facts? In most discussions, whether in politics or in research, we tend to jump seamlessly between facts, logical inferences, theories, ideas and value judgments. This can be done manipulatively, but also seems to be “just human”. Are there better ways to reach agreements, and collaborate more effectively? (claim) (more)

I've now slid into choosing now to be the time for making lots of changes to my Linode (more)

Jason Cohen: Selecting the right product metrics. I used to believe that “one true metric” (north-star metric) with a smattering of operational indicators was the best way to focus a team on “what matters most.” But I’ve come to believe in a more comprehensive system. (more)

see Generative AI