(The book) Six Thinking Hats was written by Dr. Edward de Bono. "Six Thinking Hats" and the associated idea of parallel thinking provide a means for groups to plan thinking processes in a detailed and cohesive way, and in doing so to think together more effectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats (more)

Airbnb Wants to Feel Young Again. Booking Holdings and Airbnb have long resembled a father-son duo of the online travel industry. Airbnb has traditionally been the cool kid of the two... But, just as people often look (and behave) more like their parents as they age, Airbnb is increasingly starting to look more like Booking. The two companies are expected to grow revenue at roughly the same rates next year—about 11%... That’s the competitive backdrop for Airbnb’s significant executive shake-up today, an “inflection point” for the company, CEO Brian Chesky wrote. ((2023-11-14) Brian Chesky's New Playbook) (more)

Paul Graham on Founder Mode. At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember... The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could be optimistically summarized as "hire good people and give them room to do their jobs." He followed this advice and the results were disastrous. (more)

Melissa Perri: My thoughts on "Founder Mode" and why it's dangerous. I had dinner with a few Product Leaders in Berlin the other night that turned into a discussion on how they can work better with founder CEOs. This has always been a tense subject, and I’ve seen a lot of friction firsthand between these two groups. Now, I’m worried this article is going to make it worse. (more)

Bridgy Fed connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky. You can use it to make your profile on one visible in another, follow people, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them. Interactions work in both directions as much as possible. https://fed.brid.gy/ Your website will have its own fediverse account. Its posts will show up in the fediverse automatically. People there can follow it directly. (more)

Bridgy is an open source project and proxy that implements backfeed and POSSE as a service. Bridgy sends webmentions for comments, likes, etc. on Flickr, GitHub, Mastodon, Reddit, and Bluesky, formerly Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It can also POSSE posts, issues, comments/replies, retweets, RSVPs, and likes/favorites/stars to Flickr, GitHub, and Mastodon, formerly Facebook and Twitter. Finally, it adds webmention support to Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress.com, and Medium blogs. https://brid.gy/ (more)

Vannevar Bush essay from 1945 proposing the Memex. https://www.w3.org/History/1945/vbush/vbush.shtml (more)

Vannevar Bush PIM/PKM concept http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex, originally published as "As We May Think" in 1945. (more)

boundary of a cell, organism, organization, system (more)

John Cutler: TBM 258: "Just Hire Talented People and Empower Them". There is an interesting section in the Brian Chesky episode on the Lenny's Podcast. ((2023-11-14) Brian Chesky's New Playbook) (more)

Simon Willison: Training nanoGPT entirely on content from my blog. This is a follow-up to Running nanoGPT on a MacBook M2 to generate terrible Shakespeare. I used nanoGPT by Andrej Karpathy to train a GPT model entirely against content from my blog! (more)

Pranav Dhoolia on Adding ChatGPT-Like functionality to MacOS Spotlight Search. In one of my YouTube videos, I locally hosted LLMs using Ollama, and interacted with them in a ChatGPT like interface using Ollama Web UI also hosted locally. This continues that journey. Here, I build a solution using a locally hosted LLM and LangChain (the most popular framework for building LLM solutions). (more)

Simon Willison on Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024. I gave an invited keynote at PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh this year. My goal was to say some interesting things about AI—specifically about Large Language Models—both to help catch people up who may not have been paying close attention, but also to give people who were paying close attention some new things to think about. (more)

Brian Marick Interview: Trond Hjorteland on a radical approach to organizational transformation: Open Systems Theory, a form of industrial organization more radical than Agile and with perhaps more potential. (more)

All GenAI models in one app. Switch between top AI services and local models. All from a single native app on your Mac... AI Coding Assistant within your IDE. https://boltai.com/

v0, the new generative (GenAI) UI tool by Vercel. v0 is your always-on pair-programmer. A generative chat interface with in-depth knowledge on modern web technologies. It can provide technical guidance while building on the web, generate UI with client-side functionality, write and execute code in JavaScript and Python, build diagrams explaining complex programming topics, and more. https://v0.dev/faq

The AI Code Editor. Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI. (GenAI) https://www.cursor.com/

Sully Omarr: With GenAI coding tools its honestly so enjoyable to build personal software need an ultra niche web app hooking up to 5 apis? previously you'd have to sign up to some saas pay $39/mo now? cursor.com/replit + v0/BoltAI = software in < 2 hours

'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis. When she and her husband sold the house last year, they stowed away the proceeds, $282,153.87, in what they thought of as a safe place — an account at the savings startup Yotta held at a real bank (more)

Nov'2004 essay arguing that the political market structure is not Red Vs Blue states, but rather cities vs exurbs. (more)