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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.[7][8] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.[7] Designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Act sought to secure the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 (see related Civil Rights Act of 1964; undermined in 2013 by ShelbyCounty v Holder) (more)

Venkatesh Rao: So You Think You're Customer-Driven? I've made no secret of my strongly partisan belief that being product-driven is a far superior stance than being customer-driven, but I've never properly unpacked why I think that. Here's the main reason: To be product-driven you merely have to be a talented person in a specific narrow and easily testable way. But to be genuinely customer-driven, you have to be a better person in a hard-to-test way. Add to that my priors that talent is common, but genuine good character is rare, and you'll understand why I have the bias I do. (more)

Merve Emre: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Gimmicks. What is in a word as minor as “gimmick”? For Sianne Ngai, a professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author of “Theory of the Gimmick” (Harvard), the answer is: everything, or at least everything to do with the art consumed and produced under capitalism. (more)

Novelty (derived from Latin word novus for "new") is the quality of being new, or following from that, of being striking, original or unusual.[1] Novelty may be the shared experience of a new cultural phenomenon or the subjective perception of an individual... The term can have pejorative sense and refer to a mere innovation. However, novelty in patent law is part of the legal test to determine whether an invention is patentable.[5] A novelty effect is the tendency for performance to initially improve when new technology is instituted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty (more)

Derek Thompason on 1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind. “Automobilism is an illness, a mental illness. This illness has a pretty name: speed... [Man] can no longer stand still, he shivers, his nerves tense like springs, impatient to get going once he has arrived somewhere because it is not somewhere else, somewhere else, always somewhere else.” - Octave Mirbeau, French novelist, 1910 (more)

book by Maggie Bullock ISBN:0063042649 about J. Crew (more)

DerekSivers: Cut out everything that’s not surprising. This is my advice to anyone writing something for the public — especially a talk on stage. (more)

Twitter Thread maniac. https://www.notion.so/the-best-of-visakanv-s-twitter-threads-1a6ed25cf06e49e388a303903d597b73 (more)

information? (see information theory, cf novelty) (more)

Robin Sloan has a print-Zine out titled "Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail". In 1792, during George Washington's first term, Congress passed An Act to establish the Post-Office and Post Roads within the United States (more)

Global Business Network founder; Futurists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schwartz_(futurist) (more)

Peter Schwartz has a new (June2003) book Inevitable Surprises (ISBN:1592400272). (more)

Information theory is a branch of the mathematical theory of Probability and mathematical Statistics, that deals with the concepts of information and information Entropy, communication systems, data transmission and rate distortion theory, cryptography, signal-to-noise ratios, data compression, and related topics. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory (more)

Positioning book by April Dunford ISBN:1999023005 https://www.aprildunford.com/obviously-awesome (more)

author http://joshkaufman.net/ (more)

Bill Seitz is a Product Leader/CTO accelerating revenue through/beyond product-market-fit by focusing on your Ideal Customer and bottleneck. (more)

Alfred Macdonald: Vibecamp And Its Consequences. (or: Against Pseudonyming as Virtue and Realnaming as Sin). Context: this was a pseudo-open letter criticizing the norms and illusions - primarily relating to privacy and epistemology - of a social scene called tpot and an event called vibecamp, with focus on what happens when those norms are taken seriously by large numbers of people. (more)

David Chapman: What they don’t teach you at STEM school. What they do teach you at STEM school is how to think and act within rational systems. What they mostly don’t teach you is how to evaluate, choose, combine, modify, discover, or create systems. (systems thinking) (more)

aka pseudo-science; https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=woo&category_name=&submit=Search (more)