Kevin Carson's Homebrew Industrial Revolution is available now as Printed Book ISBN:1439266999 and free EBook. Resilient Community, Desktop Fab, etc. (more)
Teresa Torres tool for Agile Product Development framing: connecting big desired-outcomes to specific pains/opportunities, to solutions/hypotheses, to experiments.... aka OST (more)
Traditional "management", even most software product management, is Industrial-Age Command-and-Control thinking that is net-negative for managing creatives. We need a re-framing of Agile Software Development with a business-building software Product Development mindset. Rapidly Iterative based on FeedBack. A bit post-Lean-Startup. Product-Led, Customer-Driven. (more)
structure of peer-managed organization to share/reduce costs of an activity (more)
Co-ops other than food. Generated by ChatGPT after (2025-09-14) Phyle vignettes. (more)
group of folks trying to grow a scene around sense-making: Ronen Tamari, Gabriel Chartier, kristen pavle, etc. (more)
Vignettes (design fiction) about phyles, generated by ChatGPT after (2025-08-15) NotebookLM on a NetworkEnlightenment. (more)
Supreme Court decision supporting Abortion (more)
Steven Levy: Brian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night—and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything App. As Brian Chesky tells it, the reinvention of Airbnb started with the coup at OpenAI. On November 17, 2023, the board of OpenAI fired company CEO Sam Altman. His friend Chesky leapt into action—publicly defending his pal on X, getting on the phone with Microsoft’s CEO.... “I was so jacked up,” he says—turned his buzzing mind to his own company, Airbnb.... He wanted to bust the company he’d cofounded out of its pigeonhole of short-term home rentals. I guess this was made possible by (2023-09-09) Itamar Gilad On Linkedin Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management. (more)
Patrick McKenzie: *A Dangerous Professional trick: I see many people, including people in the professional class, interact with automated tooling as if it were The Company and interpreting that tooling’s inability to help as The Company’s refusal to help. (more)
a Patrick McKenzie frame for someone who gets things done.... cf reality hacking, high agency. (not quite accurate, have to find reference..) (more)
I think Wiki For CollaborationWare is hugely important. It's the right HyperText repository to document ideas/issues, their resolutions/changes, and track progress. (more)
At some point we'll want to move, and I want to think through a climate change future. (more)
Which U.S. cities will fare best in a warming world — and which will be hit hardest? Global warming will reshape the economies of American cities, and at the top of the list of metro areas that will be worst hit is San Francisco, according to a report by Moody’s Analytics released Thursday. (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
Made with flux.garden