Michael Gerber (EMyth) says every Entrepreneur worth his or her salt is a Systems Thinker (Systems Thinking)... A Systems Thinker sees meaning in everything, and if not, pursues everything until the meaning becomes clear, until the System reveals itself in all its glory. (not at all sure I agree, but it's an interesting thought...) He sketches his Key Frustrations Process.
less-formal-exec version of Chief Product Officer
Cedric Chin: To Get Good, Go After The Metagame. Every sufficiently interesting game has a metagame above it. This is the game about the game. It is often called ‘the meta’. (more)
Cedric Chin: Let's talk about how note taking can help you accelerate expertise. (tweetstorm followed by longer article) (more)
David R. MacIver: The Manual that solves all your problems. Paul Erdos had a concept of The Book, in which God had written down the shortest most elegant proof of every conceivable mathematical problem (more)
hmm, is this expert product management pattern-matching? intuition? judgment? fingertip-feeling? (more)
Jason Cohen: Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect. Here’s some common examples so you can train your pattern-matching engine, and see how to navigate the conversations. (more)
Pattern Matching - a sense-making process, see also case study
business structure for rolling out a Business Model at large scale, but charging people (non-employees, entrepreneurs) for the right to join that model (more)
John Robb notes that the new Us Army Field Manual on Counter Insurgency (Dealing With Terrorism) doesn't ever mention the term FourGW.
Money Is Like Gasoline During A Road Trip, Tim O'Reilly says. "You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money." (2010-05-01) Tim Oreilly The Oracle Of Silicon Valley (more)
Steve Denning: Re-Imagining The Very Concept Of Management. Figure 1: labels for digital-age management.... The question remains: What to call this radically different management? (business agility) (more)
Steve Denning: Why Agile Needs To Take Over Management Itself. Let’s face it. The age of agile has not arrived. The twenty-year effort to persuade large corporations to become Agile enterprises has largely failed. (business agility) (more)
Steve Denning: In Digital Transformation, The Hardest Part Is Discarding The Past. The core problem for digital transformation is that it conflicts with the driving principle of big business for the last 50 years: the idea that the purpose of a firm is to maximize short-term shareholder value, and must be supported by generous stock compensation for executives to lock in that purpose (MSV). (more)
James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson[a] (born May 7, 1998), better known by his online alias MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, internet personality, philanthropist, and businessman. He is known for his fast-paced and high-production videos featuring elaborate challenges and lucrative giveaways.[11] With over 317 million subscribers, he has the most subscribers of any YouTube channel,[12][13] and is the third-most-followed creator on TikTok with over 103 million followers. He also has over 60 million followers on Instagram and 30.9 million on X (formerly Twitter). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MrBeast
when supply exceeds demand: see pyramid scheme, asset bubble, Elite Overproduction, (2024-02-08) Ayer Enshittification As Overproduction In Software. Abundance?
A memo/mini-book written by MrBeast to "train" his video staff was leaked. I could make a separate book for creative, a separate book for production, a separate book for editors, etc. but I think that’d be dumb. Everything we do here is interconnected and the more you understand about what others are doing and trying to accomplish, the better set up for success you will be (more)
This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)
My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Evolution by increasing Freedom, Agency, and Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (SmallWorld) via D And D of Thinking Tools (software and Games To Play).
See Intro Page for space-related goals, status, etc.; or Wiki Node for more terse summary info.
Beware the War On The Net!
Current:
- head of product for an early-stage boot-strapped company
- founder FluxGarden for Digital Garden hosting
- wrote Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems ASIN:B00HHJA5JS
My Coding for fun.
Past:
- Director Product Managment, NCSA Sports
- CTO/Product Manager at a series of startups: MedScape, then Axiom Legal, then Living Independently, then DailyLit, then AEP...
- founded Family Financial Future, personal-financial-planning nagware for parents
- consulting
- founded Teamflux.com, a hosting service for wiki-based collaboration spaces.
- founded Wikilogs.com, a hosting service for WikiLog-s (wiki-based weblogs).
Agile Product Development, Product Management from MVP to Product-Market Fit, Adding Product To Your Startup Team, Agility, Context, and Team Agency, (2022-10-12) Accidental Learnings of a Journeyman Product Manager
Oligarchy; Big Levers, Theory of Change, Change the World, (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future; Network Enlightenment, Optimistic Near Future Vision; Huge Invention; Alternatives To A College Degree; Credit Crisis 2008; Economic Transition; Network Economy; Making A Living; Varieties Of Info Technology Jobs; Generative Schooling; Product Oriented Unschooling; Reality Hacker; A 20th Century Economic Theory
FluxGarden; Network Enlightenment Ecosystem; ThinkingTools Interaction as Medium; Hypermedia Pattern Language; Everyone Needs Their Own ThinkingSpace; Digital Garden; Virtual ThinkingSpace; Thinking Tools Companies; Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts; My CollaborationWare History; Wiki Proliferation; Portal Collaboration Roadmap; Wiki For GroupWare, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, Email Discussion Beside Wiki, Wiki For CollaborationWare, Collaboration Roadmap; Sister Sites; Wiki Hack
Personal Cloud; 2018-11-29-NextOpenInfrastructure, 2018-11-15-BooksVsTweets; Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock
Social Warrens; Culture War; 2017-02-15-MindmapCultureWarSocialMediaEconomy; Cultural Pluralism
Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Small Tribe, SimplestThing, Becoming A Reality Hacker, Less-Bullshit Living, The Craft; Games To Play; Evolution, Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems
Digital Therapeutics, (2021-05-26) Pondering a Mental Health space, CoachBot; Inside-Out Markov Chain