Iterative process of "Plan-Do-Study-Act" (more)

If you're digging-into, or generating, numbers (spreadsheet), you probably need a visual "interface" to them. (more)

10x? Expert? Smart and Gets Things Done? High Agency? Think Big? (more)

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.[1][2] The concept was explained in the 1969 book The Peter Principle (William Morrow and Company) by Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull.[3] Hull wrote the text, which was based on Peter's research. Peter and Hull intended the book to be satire,[4] but it became popular as it was seen to make a serious point about the shortcomings of how people are promoted within hierarchical organizations. The Peter principle has since been the subject of much commentary and research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Coding Bootcamp started by Austen Allred, with Income-Share Agreement option. (more)

Statistical process control (SPC) or statistical quality control (SQC) is the application of statistical methods to monitor and control the quality of a production process. This helps to ensure that the process operates efficiently, producing more specification-conforming products with less waste scrap. SPC can be applied to any process where the "conforming product" (product meeting specifications) output can be measured. Key tools used in SPC include run charts, control charts, a focus on continuous improvement, and the design of experiments. An example of a process where SPC is applied is manufacturing lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_process_control

Cedric Chin: How to Become Data Driven. In our previous piece we took a look at Goodhart’s Law, and examined how Donald Wheeler’s Understanding Variation contains a method for dealing with the Law in various organisational contexts (more)

Cedric Chin: Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think. Goodhart’s Law is a famous adage that goes “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” (more)

Any Product Manager should be able to do their own SQL-based Exploratory Data Analysis. (more)

Reviving PyMiniRacer. The old Sqreen PyMiniRacer project had only recently fallen into disrepair. Can we revive it? TL;DR: Yes! (more)

Kanban is a concept related to Lean Manufacturing and just-in-time (JIT) production. The Japanese word kanban is a common term meaning "signboard" or "billboard". According to Taiichi Ohno, the man credited with developing JIT, kanban is a means through which JIT is achieved. Kanban is a signaling system to trigger action. As its name suggests, kanban historically uses cards to signal the need for an item. However, other devices such as plastic markers (kanban squares) or balls (often golf balls) or an empty part-transport trolley or floor location can also be used to trigger the movement, production, or supply of a unit in a factory. It was out of a need to maintain the level of improvements that the kanban system was devised by Toyota. Kanban became an effective tool to support the running of the production system as a whole. In addition, it proved to be an excellent way for promoting improvements because reducing the number of kanban in circulation highlighted problem area. (more)

party with an agenda, often in excess of their skin in the game (more)

In the most basic Cloud Computing-service model & according to the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), providers of IaaS offer computers – physical or (more often) Virtual Machine-s – and other resources. (A hypervisor, such as Xen, Oracle Virtual Box, KVM, V Mware ESX/E S Xi, or Hyper-V runs the virtual machines as guests. Pools of hypervisors within the cloud operational support-system can support large numbers of virtual machines and the ability to scale services up and down according to customers' varying requirements.) IaaS clouds often offer additional resources such as a virtual-machine disk image library, raw block storage, and file or object storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, virtual local area networks (VLANs), and software bundles.[52] IaaS-cloud providers supply these resources on-demand from their large pools installed in data centers. For wide-area connectivity, customers can use either the Internet or carrier clouds (dedicated virtual private networks). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Infrastructure_as_a_service_(IaaS) (more)

How to Care for Aging Parents, 3rd Edition: A One-Stop Resource for All Your Medical, Financial, Housing, and Emotional Issues ISBN:0761166769 (esp Aging-in-Place) (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: How to identify your ideal customer profile (B2B) (ICP). Welcome to part three of our series on how to kickstart and scale a B2B business: (more)

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)

Konrad Hinsen: Deconstructing the Mastodon client. Ever since I joined Twitter in 2011, and then moved to Mastodon in 2022, I have been unhappy with the timeline view proposed by both of these communication platforms as their main interface. Now I have finally done something about it: I wrote my own Mastodon client. Or perhaps rather a non-client, because the concept of "the client" is a big part of what I disliked. (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)

an old-Europe city/ (more)