Spalding Gray on NYC: It's an insane angel; New York defies observation. It is completely, hugely in your face and what it is for me still is a human miracle, because if you go out in it, as I do, the fact that existence is - is the miracle. The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode... What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place. It's one of the few living cities where people are living in the city that they work in. You know, that's amazing in itself.

Context: joining a start-up that has launched its MVP but not yet reached Product-Market Fit. (more)

the fallacy that the next feature you add will suddenly make people want to use the entire product. (more)

Open Source Systems Thinking/Systems Dynamics modelling/Simulation system. (more)

ThinkingTool: SystemsThinking (Diagram of Effects); MindMapping? DisputationArena? https://kumu.io/ (more)

Founder of Systems Dynamics Group. Developed the computer model for the Club Of Rome which led to the Limits To Growth report. (He later refined this for his WorldDynamics book.) The fact that we haven't had the Big Die Off yet has not improved the reputation of Systems Thinking. (more)

virtual learning marketplace

Joshua Porter: The Next Feature Fallacy (or, the case for simple, working systems). Tell me if this sounds familiar: You released the first version (MVP) of your product some months ago and it was an exhilarating experience. You went through the highs and lows of launch and had moments of excitement and pride when people started using your product for the first time. But...as the weeks wore on it started to become clear there just wasn’t enough usage. (more)

Andrew Chen: The Next Feature Fallacy: The fallacy that the next new feature will suddenly make people use your product. (more)

Prabhakar Raghavan is a business executive and former researcher of web information retrieval. He is a senior vice president at Google, where he is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products.[2] His research spans algorithms, web search and databases.[3] He is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms[4] with Rajeev Motwani[5] and Introduction to Information Retrieval. After working 14 years at IBM, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity in 2004.[16][14][12] In July 2005, he was hired by Yahoo! to lead Yahoo! Research in Sunnyvale, California.[17] At Yahoo!, worked on research projects including search and advertising.[15][18] In 2011, he was appointed as Yahoo!'s chief strategy officer by CEO Carol Bartz, who replaced the co-founder Jerry Yang in 2009 and was fired in 2011 as the company declined.[19] In 2012, Prabhakar joined Google after severe funding cuts in Yahoo!'s research division. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhakar_Raghavan

Google Search Engine

Adam Mosseri (Arabic: آدم موسري; Hebrew: אדם מוסרי; born January 23, 1983) is an American businessman and the head of Instagram. He formerly was an executive at Facebook, which owns Instagram... Mosseri joined Facebook as a product designer in 2008.[3] In 2009, Mosseri became a product design manager, and in 2012 became the design director for the company's mobile apps.[8][9] From 2012 to 2016, Mosseri oversaw Facebook's News Feed section, and from 2016 to May 2018 was vice president of product for Facebook.[8][10][11] During his tenure at Facebook, he additionally oversaw Facebook Home, the company's unsuccessful attempt at bringing a mobile homescreen to Android devices.[12][13] After the 2016 presidential election, Mosseri took it upon himself to become the spokesperson for Facebook's stance on "fake news."[4] During the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mosseri was one of the few Facebook executives who was vocal about Facebook's role in providing security and trustworthy news.[14] In May 2018, Mosseri was named Instagram's vice president of product.[15] On October 1, 2018, Facebook announced that Mosseri would assume as the new head of Instagram. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mosseri

Ed Zitron: The Rot-Com Bubble The noxious growth-at-all-costs mindset of the Rot Economy sits at the core of every issue that I've ever written about. It’s the force that drives businesses to grow bigger rather than better, making more products to conquer more markets rather than making products or services that people need or improving products they already like. ((2023-02-09) Zitron The Rot Economy) (more)

co-founder/CEO Salesforce.com

Ed Zitron: Disruption Killed Innovation. The reason that none of these products seem to ever have a firm connection to any real use case or product is that these announcements are not for customers. Marc Benioff’s 2019 announcement of “full blockchain” (for Salesforce.com) coincided with a brief bull run in cryptocurrency. (more)

writer, PR guy https://www.wheresyoured.at/

Tom Standage wrote about 6 drinks that changed Civilization: Beer, Wine, spirits, Coffee, tea, Coca-Cola.

author of The Unaccountability Machine

from the Republican Party to SDS to the Libertarian Party (more)

Mutualism guru http://mutualist.blogspot.com (more)