term created by Jon Udell to describe a Video (Multimedia) demonstrating interaction with a piece of software. In the software world, we spend a lot of time describing how things work. To echo Michael Kinsley's lament about music and film, why should those descriptions use only text, possibly augmented with screenshots? Why don't we present, and quote from, live experiences? (more)

Jon Udell on the values of Multimedia communication, coming from his Screen Cast experience as a form of Story Telling. My program of study was Science Writing, but that was a tiny subspecialty within a larger MFA (master of fine arts) program dedicated to Creative Writing. When I taught this class more than twenty years ago the term "refactoring" wasn't commonly applied to software. Yet that's precisely how I think about the iterative refinement of prose and of code. In both realms, we adjust vocabulary to achieve consistency of tone, and we transform structure to achieve economy of expression... In the pre-internet era, none of us foresaw the explosive growth of the internet as a textual medium. If you'd asked me then why a programmer ought to be able to write effectively, I'd have pointed mainly to specs and manuals. I didn't see that software development was already becoming a global collaboration, that email and newsgroups were its lifeblood, and that the ability to articulate and persuade in the medium of text could be as crucial as the ability to design and build in the medium of code... It's undoubtedly true that an audiovisual narrative enters many 21st-century minds more easily, and makes a more lasting impression on those minds, than does a written narrative. But it's also true that the interactive experience of software is fundamentally cinematic in nature... The New York Times recently asked: "Is cinema studies the new MBA?" I'll go further and suggest that these methods ought to be part of the new freshman comp. Writing and editing will remain the foundation skills they always were, but we'll increasingly combine them with speech and video. The tools and techniques are new to many of us. But the underlying principles--consistency of tone, clarity of structure, economy of expression, iterative refinement--will be familiar to programmers and writers alike. (more)

Visakan Veerasamy: The Problem Of Excess Genius, by David Banks [1997]. The most important question we can ask of historians is “Why are some periods and places so astonishingly more productive than the rest?” (Scenes, Collaborations, Inventions, And Progress, (1997-02-28) Banks Clusters Of Talent) (more)

Michiko Aoyama: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library ISBN:1335005625, reviewed and recommended by Robin Sloan (more)

capital of Japan; re urban design, see Emergent Tokyo

a form of cognitive bias (more)

FrameWork for Fat Client GUI building in Python. (more)

aka todepond https://www.todepond.com/ has digital garden

homeowner's association

Noah Smith: Why Japanese cities are such nice places to live. (Traditional City) Every once in a while, American social media rediscovers tiny Japanese apartments. The latest instance of this was a video of a Japanese studio apartment in Tokyo that’s 250 square feet for $300 a month: (more)

Itamar Gilad On GenML, Artifacts, and Product Management. The latest wave of GenML/GenAI tools is truly remarkable. I believe all creative work is going to be impacted, including product management. But in what way? (more)

Itamar Gilad: What Does Generative AI Mean For Product Development? (more)

Martin Cagan on AI Product Management. Recently I have co-authored a few articles allowing me to highlight different product coaches, and in this article, I’d like to highlight Marily Nika. Marily specializes in helping product teams create AI-powered products and services. She has a PhD in machine learning.... she runs a popular course teaching product managers what they need to know to build effective AI-powered products (more)

Lenny Rachitsky lets Ben Erez speak In defense of feature team product managers. Really weak. And, I think, his 2 points are written in the wrong order. So I need to summarize and then rebut.... tk (more)

post-Baby Boomer generation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X born from 1965 to around 1982 (more)

17776 (also known as What Football Will Look Like in the Future) is a serialized speculative fiction (science fiction) multimedia narrative by Jon Bois, published online through SB Nation. Set in the distant future in which all humans have become immortal and infertile, the series follows three sapient space probes that watch humanity play an evolved form of American football in which games can be played for millennia over distances of thousands of miles. The series debuted on July 5, 2017, and new chapters were published daily until the series concluded with its twenty-fifth chapter on July 15... It is followed by a sequel series: 20020, released from September to October 2020, which Bois intends to follow up with a further series entitled 20021. The sequel series follows a 111-team game of college football on fields spanning 236 million yards across the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776 https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football (more)

Internet guru, author https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky (more)

Jon Udell remembers his old Time Dance and wishes it were still around for Group Calendaring (and other Collaboration Ware) in AdHoc groups. Someone recommends Meeting Wizard.

Jesse Singal is an American journalist. He has written for publications including New York magazine, The New York Times and The Atlantic. Singal also publishes a newsletter on Substack and hosts a podcast, Blocked and Reported, with journalist Katie Herzog. Much of Singal's writing deals with the social sciences, and he previously edited New York magazine's behavioral-science vertical, "Science of Us".[1] In 2021, he published a book, The Quick Fix, about the failings of popular psychology. Singal's writing on transgender issues has attracted controversy, particularly in his 2018 cover story for The Atlantic, "When Children Say They're Trans". ((2018-07-31) Singal When Children Say They're Trans) He received a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. (more)

Where live with your Lean Family (esp if not Home-Schooling)? (more)