play dat funky music, white boys (more)

A digital synthesizer/sampler (more)

Steve Blank: a startup is a temporary organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable Business Model. (more)

Jon Lebkowsky: The Mirrorshades anthology, edited by our cohost Bruce Sterling, surveyed a literary subgenre that was called cyberpunk not because the term had any precise meaning (it didn't), but because it worked as a catchy marketing bite, a buzzword representing ideas and memes that had resonance more through attitude than content. The vague term cyberpunk became a conceptual mirror, reflecting rather than conveying meaning. Over time `cyberpunk' referred less to a sci-fi subgenre, and more to a movement that was the beatnik underside of the evolving digital culture, encompassing the countercultural fascinations of the 90s -- the computer underground, rave/house culture, zine culture, designer psychedelics, goth morbidity, etc. (more)

Bluesky is an initiative to develop a decentralized social network protocol. Organized by Twitter as a non-profit initiative, it was announced in 2019 and is in a research phase as of 2022. Bluesky is owned by the team itself, without any controlling stake held by Twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol) cf Open Social Networking Model (more)

Silver Lake, legally Silver Lake Technology Management, L.L.C., is an American global private equity firm focused on technology and technology-enabled investments. Silver Lake is headquartered in Silicon Valley and New York, and has offices in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In June 2023, Silver Lake were ranked 11th in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking of the largest private equity firms in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_(investment_firm)

hosting service for WordPress, founded by Jason Cohen - https://wpengine.com/ (more)

The term autopoiesis (from Greek αὐτo- (auto-) 'self' and ποίησις (poiesis) 'creation, production') refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts.[1] The term was introduced in the 1972 publication Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to define the self-maintaining chemistry of living cells. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis

series of books/services by Michael Gerber (more)

The idea, widely held by the Extropian crowd, that the curve of the total knowledge of humankind will continue to accelerate (Knowledge Growth) until it goes roughly vertical, at which point we will transcend humanity itself. Or something like that. (more)

Management? Or Midget?

If I were nudging a 15-30yo semi-normie/newbie toward becoming a reality hacker, what would I slide over? (Subliminal Subversives) (more)

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.

a document some people (aka managers) write to help their employees work with them more successfully (more)

less-formal-exec version of Chief Product Officer

aka Policies And Procedures, Procedures Manual (more)

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)