aka "The Guide", from Adrian Hon's A History Of The 21st Century In 100 Objects (see excerpts there) (more)

Diamond Age junkie; product manager

Gemini is an application-layer internet communication protocol for accessing remote documents, similar to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Gopher. It comes with a special document format, commonly referred to as "gemtext", which allows linking to other documents. Started by a pseudonymous person known as Solderpunk, the protocol is being finalized collaboratively and as of October 2022, has not been submitted to the IETF organization for standardization... The design is inspired by Gopher, but with modernisation such as mandatory use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for connections and a hypertext format as native content type.[4] The design is deliberately not easily extensible, in order to meet a project goal of simplicity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) https://geminiprotocol.net/ (more)

Michael "Mike" Masnick (born December 8,[1] 1974) is an American editor and entrepreneur. He is the CEO and founder of Techdirt, a weblog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Masnick

amazon weekly metrics review process/meeting (WBR); documented a bit in Working Backwards

3 different contexts (here) (more)

Kevin Munger: The Tragedy of Stafford Beer. There has been growing interest in cybernetic socialism over the past decade, starting with Eden Medina’s history Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Evgeny Morozov’s article on Cybersyn in the New Yorker, and a chapter on the enterprise in Leigh Phillips’ and Michal Rozworski’s book The People’s Republic of Walmart. (more)

Dan Hon: s17e04: You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms (more)

Frank Miroslav Review: The People’s Republic of Walmart. Let me begin by saying that I’m glad this book exists. Phillips and Rozworski are upfront about their book not containing any radical new insights into questions of economic planning, but instead they compile arguments made by others in a highly readable format, something that those on the left who argue for economic planning have needed for some time. (more)

Tim Harford: Who’s responsible for our accountability problem? I was recently scheduled to present my Cautionary Tales podcast live on stage as a curtainraiser for a podcast conference (more)

Bruce Sterling: Futures of Cybernetics (bad auto-transcript of video). Cybernetics might have a Revival (more)

Adrian Hon: A Thousand Primers, Not Just One. Andy Matuschak’s essay, Exorcising us of the Primer, highlights the limitations of Neal Stephenson’s influential The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. (2024-07-10-Matuschak ExorcisingUsOfThePrimer) (more)

Dan Hon: s17e09: What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide (more)

Bushra Farooqui: The Ghost of "The Old Curiosity Shop" in "The Diamond Age". While re-reading Stephenson, it’s helpful to consider Diamond Age from the lens of its traditional predecessor, the allusion that lingers between the pages, unspoken, but felt—Charles Dickens’ dark 1840 tale, The Old Curiosity Shop. (more)

Ash Maurya: The Right Way vs. The Battle-Tested Way for Driving Breakthrough Innovation. I often get initial pushback from other coaches when I first present my step-by-step continuous innovation roadmap: The biggest objection typically centers around ordering business modeling before customer/problem discovery. (more)

Belief that a particular Model of Reality represents Absolute Truth. (more)

A collection, typically of WebLog entries. Kinda like a Top Ic. Bigger buckets than KeyWord-s. (more)

David Pereira: Are You Doing Product Management or Bullshit Management? Product professionals become powerless because they are not the ones calling the shots. Top management believes in knowing best what to do and expecting product people to follow their orders. In reality, you start doing bullshit management instead of product management. At some point it becomes a Bullshit Job. (more)

part of Customer Development process, part of Product Discovery (more)

Ash Maurya: Problem/Solution Fit (not Product/Market Fit) is the first significant milestone of a startup. Getting to product/market fit (the inflection point in the hockey stick curve) takes roughly two years, and 80% of products never find it. (more)