brand of a series of how-to books https://www.dummies.com/

asking the wrong question (error type III) will probably result in solving the wrong problem (at best)

Deming talk: Does anybody give a hoot about profit? On the afternoon of 11 July 1990, Dr W Edwards Deming gave a short presentation to some 25 executives from major European companies. This article provides an edited transcript of that presentation and the subsequent Question and Response Session. The presentation was structured around Dr Deming’s paper “A System of Profound Knowledge” (May 1990). (more)

Cedric Chin: The Deming Paradox: The Human Costs of Operational Rigour (rigor). This is an investigative note, and only nominally part of the Becoming Data Driven in Business series. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Give Me a Reason(ing Model). Are we doing this again? It looks like we are doing this again. This time it involves giving LLMs several ‘new’ tasks including effectively a Tower of Hanoi problem, asking them to specify the answer via individual steps rather than an algorithm then calling a failure to properly execute all the steps this way (whether or not they even had enough tokens to do it!) an inability to reason. (more)

Ash Maurya: “Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question. A business model describes 3 things: value creation, value delivery, and value capture. All three relate to customers. Therefore, customer-centricity also needs to be at the core of how you define, measure, and communicate progress. (more)

aka Pareto's Law. Management consultant Joseph Juran developed the concept in the context of quality control, and improvement, naming it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who noted the 80/20 connection while at the University of Lausanne in 1896.[4] In his first work, Cours d'économie politique, Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. The Pareto principle is only tangentially related to Pareto efficiency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle (more)

is that the same as good enough?

David Chapman book https://meaningness.com/ (more)

"Meaningness" https://meaningness.com/ and Fluid Mode writer (more)

Trying LLM for my Local Notes and Ebooks - antilibrary (more)

Jira with extra features for Product Managers. https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/product-discovery (more)

Atlassian Issue Tracker (more)

Getting To Trust: Better Swift Than Deep. Venessa Miemis is trying to get a group of ‘change agents’ to collaborate, and is finding it hard going. ()(2012-01-08) Miemis How Will We Collaborate If We Can't Trust Each Other) (more)

tag for experiments with GenAI, like (more)

chatbot of Pirate Eddie from the CategoryPirates

CategoryPirates: Identity At Scale: How We Built The Pirate Eddie Bot, And How To Create Your Own. In 2023, product expert, writer, and Substack superstar Lenny Rachitsky launched something different. (more)

Screens, Research, and Hypertext, an online hypertext-ebook/wiki-ebook by Joe Miller, published 2022. https://screensresearchhypertext.com/ (more)

from Visakan Veerasamy (more)

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