Sasha Chapin: A Brief Practical Guide to Being an Infinite Player. I was riveted, moved, and completely annoyed (by Finite And Infinite Games)... what an irritating style of writing! (more)
CEO Astera Institute. Before joining Astera, Cate was a co-founder of Alvea, a company developing shelf-stable, inhalable vaccines for pandemic response, and led the company's medical, regulatory, and operational functions while it took a drug candidate to a Phase 1 clinical trial within 6 months of the company's founding. Previously, she was the number one female poker player in the world, and a Supreme Court-barred attorney. https://www.theinstitute.com/fellow/cate-hall
writer; book author All The Wrong Moves (about playing pro chess) (more)
Stowe Boyd: ‘Kanbanibalization’ in Obsidian. Originally posted 2022-10-21: Note that these ideas have progressed in the year since, and I will be moving the materials formerly on Medium back to Substack. Expect more to appear. (more)
Dead PIM product, first released 1992. 1994 article says Victor Cruz, spokesman for Lotus Development Corp., says Lotus stopped developing Agenda after selling only 100,000 copies. They thought Agenda was too difficult to learn, so they bought a no-brainer program called the Threads Organizer (I guess this was Lotus Organizer) from a company in the United Kingdom. Threads looks like a notebook and a day calendar, so it is obvious what it does. Agenda is more subtle. Lotus has sold 450,000 copies of Threads. (more)
Gene Kim sequel to Phoenix Project, with more framing provided by Business Strategy and data-backed Product Management (Agile Product Development). ISBN:1942788762 https://itrevolution.com/the-unicorn-project/ (more)
"authoritative" source of a type of info within an organization - so there are probably multiple systems of record (see Unicorn Project) - ideally one each for a type of info - the problem arises when multiple apps "might" be the system of record. (more)
Hiten Shah: Why Trello Failed to Build a $1 Billion+ Business (more)
part of Lenny Rachitsky network, does weekly podcast on using GenAI as a PM/CPO
Kathy Sierra: Your App Makes Me Fat. In 1999, Professor Baba Shiv...(currently at Stanford) and his co-author Alex Fedorikhin did a simple experiment on 165 grad students. (more)
podcaster. While studying computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, Patel began interviewing writers and technologists in 2020 for an early version of his podcast, then called The Lunar Society.[7] He took the name of his show from the Lunar Society of Birmingham, an 18th century British dinner club that was part of an influential intellectual movement known as the Midlands Enlightenment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarkesh_Patel (more)
Michael Pollock uses the term Solopreneur for a One Man Show/Free Agent.
to narrow your target market segment
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


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