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)

aka pop culture

Mel Conway says Freedom is an Emergent (Phenomenon). What does politics have to do with emergence, and what is emergence anyway? That’s what this essay is about. Here is my deeper agenda: There is an important missing conversation that needs to be happening between social scientists and systems scientists...I will show that there is a single structural pattern that describes a large variety of group cohesion behaviors, some human, some not. (more)

the bird/mammal version of swarming?

Mel Conway: organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. (1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law (more)

Kyla Scanlon (at EpsilonTheory): The Mr. Beast Memo is a Guide to the Gen Z Workforce. Mr. Beast is one of the most fascinating people in the world. He is somewhat of an Isaac Newton or a da Vinci… for the digital age. He is obsessively a master of his craft, making clickbait-y game show style YouTube videos. (2024-09-15) Leaked MrBeast memo on Production (more)

Hey Zuck, get those robots out of my social feeds. For a time there was a lot of excitement about an impending Metaverse, but the buzz is now barely audible. These days everyone is enchanted by all-knowing AI chatbots, which are making their claim to be not just the future of computers but the future of everything. What’s a paradigm chaser to do? (more)