revenue less variable costs - can be expressed as a $/period or as a % of revenue (more)

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)

A skeuomorph (also spelled skiamorph, /ˈskjuːəˌmɔːrf, ˈskjuːoʊ-/)[1][2] is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original.[3] Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic purpose in the new system, except for identification. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal[4] and a software calendar (cf desktop GUI) that imitates the appearance of binding on a paper desk calendar.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

Itamar Gilad: Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management? The product-sphere is boiling-over over an interview with Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of AirBnB, in which he said that the company no longer has a product management function - PM has been merged with product-marketing-management (PMM). (more)

an app (esp mobile app) that provides a wide variety of services (in hopes of a broader monopoly) (more)

Ron Jeffries: Strawberries 7: Implications. We begin our product journey with high hopes and grand wishes, including a lot of features (more)

Ron Jeffries: Twelve. This article expresses, in written form, the talk that Chet Hendrickson and I gave at the deliver:Agile conference. Al Smith once said “The cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy”. We say The cure for the ills of “Agile” is more Agile. See 2019-05-03-JeffriesAgileTwelve and 2yrs-ago 2017-06-25-JeffriesNewSoftwareDevelopmentFrameworkIdeas. (more)

Extreme Programming guru (more)

Parallel play is a form of play in which children play adjacent to each other, but do not try to influence one another's behavior; it typically begins around 24–30 months.[1][2] It is one of Mildred Parten's stages of play, following onlooker play and preceding associative play. An observer will notice that the children occasionally see what the others are doing and then modify their play accordingly. The older the children are, the less frequently they engage in this type of play. However, even older preschool children engage in parallel play, an enduring and frequent activity over the preschool years. The image of parallel play is two children playing side by side in a sandbox, each absorbed in their own game, not interacting with the other. "This is considered an early stage in child development, characterized by egocentric behavior and the inability to decenter and coordinate with the activities of a 'play-mate'". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_play

non-profit github competitor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeberg https://codeberg.org/

Psychological safety is the ability to show and employ oneself without fear of negative consequences of self-image, status, or career (Kahn 1990, p. 708).[1] It can be defined as a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.[2] In psychologically safe teams, team members feel accepted and respected. It is also the most studied enabling condition in group dynamics and team learning research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_safety (more)

US National-id efforts (more)

Erik Hoel: INTRODUCING: The World Behind the World. What do you give away, when you write a book? What piece of yourself are you carving off, I mean? (more)

Antonio Damasio (Portuguese: António Damásio) is a Portuguese neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, additionally, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute.[1] He was previously the chair of neurology at the University of Iowa for 20 years.[2] Damasio heads the Brain and Creativity Institute, and has authored several books: his work, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010), explores the relationship between the brain and consciousness.[3] Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Damasio

The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2007, catapulted into the mainstream by Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign.[1] The movement expanded in response to the policies of Democratic President Barack Obama[2][3], the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (Bail-Out) of 2008,[4] the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009,[5][6] and a series of HealthCare reform bills.[7], and was a major factor in the 2010 wave election[4][5] in which Republicans gained 63 House seats[6] and took control of the U.S. House of Representatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

documentation that's not meant to be printed! (more)

Ash Maurya: Making happy customers is the universal job of every business. (Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business). Making happy customers is NOT the same thing as making customers happy. The work of making happy customers happens in a customer factory. (more)

Ash Maurya: The Customer Factory Manifesto. 1. All Businesses Share a Common Universal Goal: To make happy customers. (cf Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business) (more)

Ash Maurya model of the key macro steps a customer takes from being an unaware visitor to a happy paying customer. (Stages of Consumer Buying Decision Process)

Mad Libs is a word game created by Leonard Stern (the screenwriter) and Roger Price.[3] It consists of one player prompting others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story before reading aloud. The game is frequently played as a party game or as a pastime. It can be categorized as a phrasal template game. The game was invented in the United States, and more than 110 million copies of Mad Libs books have been sold since the series was first published in 1958... Mad Libs was invented in 1953[4] by Leonard Stern and Roger Price. Stern and Price created the game, but could not agree on a name for their invention.[3] No name was chosen until five years later (1958), when Stern and Price were eating Eggs Benedict at a restaurant in New York City. While eating, the two overheard an argument at a neighboring table between a talent agent and an actor.[3] According to Price and Stern, during the overheard argument, the actor said that he wanted to "ad-lib" an upcoming interview. The agent, who clearly disagreed with the actor's suggestion, retorted that ad-libbing an interview would be "mad".[3] Stern and Price used that eavesdropped conversation to create, at length, the name "Mad Libs".[3] In 1958, the duo released the first book of Mad Libs, which resembled the earlier games[5] of consequences and exquisite corpse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs