How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated? Video-game engines were designed to mimic the mechanics of the real world. They’re now used in movies, architecture, military simulations, and efforts to build the metaverse. (more)

kinda like DIY, emphasizing that lots of value was added "far away" (by distant manufacturer/designer) vs by you or nearby custom contractor/customizer/installer. (more)

Erik Schon's The Art Of Strategy: Steps Towards Business Agility. On Situational Awareness, OODA "Loops" and Wardley Mapping. https://leanpub.com/TheArtOfStrategy (more)

ERIK SCHÖN is a change catalyst who has successfully led global organizations for 25 years. Hacker, software researcher and system engineer turned leader, executive and strategist, Erik is the author of the widely acclaimed trilogy The Art of Change, The Art of Leadership and The Art of Strategy (Schon's Art of Strategy). https://leanpub.com/u/erik_schon (more)

business strategy framing/book by Hamilton Helmer https://7powers.com/ ISBN:0998116319 (more)

For Everyone a Garden. At Habitat 67, raw concrete catwalks and cantilevered blocks hover above, overlapping and interlocking; forms jut and recede in and out of your visual field like a cubist painting come to life. But Habitat was never touted to be something as trivial as mere art: this ten-storey apartment complex once promised an architectural revolution that would bring housing to everyone. (more)

General management, functional, and hybrid models: Which org design works best for top companies? Much of your time as a senior leader is spent figuring out how to organize your people. And one of the most common and consequential questions that company leaders face is whether to move to (or from) a GM organizational model. (more)

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States. People shopping for coverage can now preview the costs they face from potentially expiring subsidies and sharply rising premiums in many markets (more)

In psychology, self-efficacy is an individual's belief in their capacity to act in the ways necessary to reach specific goals.[1] The concept was originally proposed by the psychologist Albert Bandura in 1977. Self-efficacy affects every area of human endeavor. By determining the beliefs a person holds regarding their power to affect situations, self-efficacy strongly influences both the power a person actually has to face challenges competently and the choices a person is most likely to make. These effects are particularly apparent, and compelling, with regard to investment behaviors such as in health,[2] education,[3] and agriculture.[4] A strong sense of self-efficacy promotes human accomplishment and personal well-being. A person with high self-efficacy views challenges as things that are supposed to be mastered rather than threats to avoid. These people are able to recover from failure faster and are more likely to attribute failure to a lack of effort. They approach threatening situations with the belief that they can control them. These things have been linked to lower levels of stress and a lower vulnerability to depression.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy

Old (Jan'1999) Malcolm Gladwell article about SmallWorld. Recently, a computer scientist at the University of Virginia by the name of Brett Tjaden actually sat down and figured out what the average degree of connectedness is for the quarter million or so actors and actresses listed in the Internet Movie Database: he came up with 2.8312 steps. That sounds impressive, except that Tjaden then went back and performed an even more heroic calculation, figuring out what the average degree of connectedness was for everyone in the database. Kevin Bacon, it turns out, ranks only six hundred and sixty-eighth. Martin Sheen, by contrast, can be connected, on average, to every other actor, in 2.63681 steps, which puts him almost six hundred and fifty places higher than Bacon. Elliott Gould can be connected even more quickly, in 2.63601. Among the top fifteen are people like Robert Mitchum, Gene Hackman, Donald Sutherland, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, and Burgess Meredith. Aside from Bacon's low ranking, what surprises me is how low the difference is between the top and the average. (more)

process of rapidly/iteratively building prototypes via Vibe-Coding, immediately validating each through Solution Interview (more)

experimental step of Product Development (specifically Customer Development) (more)

Rahul Vohra Shares Superhuman's Product-Market Fit Framework. We had set up shop and started coding Superhuman in 2015. A year later, our team had grown to seven and we were still furiously coding. By the summer of 2017, we had reached 14 people — and we were still coding. I felt intense pressure to launch, from the team and also from within myself. (more)

co-founder of coda (more)

CollaborationWare: A doc for makers. https://coda.io/ Coda is a document editor that uses features from spreadsheets, presentation documents, word processor files, and apps.[4][5][6] Possible uses for Coda documents include using them as a wiki, database, or project management tool.[5] Coda has built a formula system, much like spreadsheets commonly have, but in Coda documents, formulas can be used anywhere within the document, and can link to things that aren't just cells, including other documents, calendars or graphs.[4][5][7] Coda also has the ability to integrate with custom third-party services,[1][3][4][8][9] and has automations.[4] It has offered $1 million in grants for developers that create such integrations... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coda_(document_editor) (more)

Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman. Grammarly announced Tuesday the acquisition of email client Superhuman in a push to build out its AI for its productivity suite. Neither companies provided details about the financial terms of the deal. (more)

Joshua Porter: The Next Feature Fallacy (or, the case for simple, working systems). Tell me if this sounds familiar: You released the first version (MVP) of your product some months ago and it was an exhilarating experience. You went through the highs and lows of launch and had moments of excitement and pride when people started using your product for the first time. But...as the weeks wore on it started to become clear there just wasn’t enough usage. (more)

This is our jam: How Postlight kickstarts every idea with a real Product Plan. (more)

Jul'2019 Free ebook/site by BaseCamp folks describing their process. (more)

Scrum Iteration; also Mobile TelCo