Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster is a 1998 book by historian and urban theorist Mike Davis examining how contemporary Los Angeles is portrayed in the popular media.[1][2][3][4] The book investigates the relationship between natural disasters and social injustices in Southern California. The author explores the history of urbanization in the area and how it has disregarded environmental common sense. The book also examines the intersection between social issues and the perception of natural disorder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology_of_Fear (more)

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by American author Mike Davis proposing a theory that contemporary Los Angeles has been shaped by different powerful forces in its history.... explores how different groups wielded power in different ways: the downtown Protestant elite, led by the Chandler family of the Los Angeles Times; the new elite of the Jewish Westside; the surprisingly powerful homeowner groups; the Los Angeles Police Department. He covers the Irish leadership of the Catholic Church and its friction with the numerically dominant Latino element. The book concludes at what Davis calls the "junkyard of dreams," the former steel town of Fontana, east of LA, a victim of de-industrialization and decay. The second edition of the book, published in 2006, contains a new preface detailing changes in Los Angeles since City of Quartz was first published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Quartz (more)

a city (Urban) grown out of Suburb expansion (more)

Urban Design critic http://www.joelkotkin.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Kotkin (more)

maybe the next war-inducing resource after Cheap Oil? (Water War) (more)

Ash Maurya: The Art of the Demo. Thinking you need a working product (or prototype) to make a sale is a common myth in the product world. (more)

Ash Maurya: Sell before you build. (more)

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

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

Ash Maurya Customer Forces canvas - ultimately replaced: (2024-04-24) Maurya Back-story Behind Customer Forces Stories (LeanFoundry)

Katie Parrott: When o3 Plans Your Career Better Than You Do. I’ve always hated the question, “Where do you see yourself in five years?” (more)

Ash Maurya: The Updated Problem Interview Script (and a new Canvas). Inspired by the Scientific Method, the search for Problem/Solution fit starts with creating a model — specifically a business model using a Lean Canvas. This piece is updated at (2024-09-09) Maurya Find Better Problems Worth Solving With The Customer Forces Canvas. (more)

Demo, Sell, Build - Ash Maurya's recommendation for order of startup actions (more)

tag for experiments with GenAI, like (more)

Fingerspitzengefühl [ˈfɪŋɐˌʃpɪtsənɡəˌfyːl] is a German term, literally meaning "finger tips feeling" and meaning intuitive flair or instinct, which has been adopted by the English language as a loanword. It describes a great situational awareness, and the ability to respond most appropriately and tactfully. It can also be applied to diplomats, bearers of bad news, or to describe a superior ability to respond to an escalated situation. The term is sometimes used to describe the instinctive play of certain football players. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl cf OODA, Cognitive Flexibility Theory

Cognitive flexibility is an intrinsic property of a cognitive system often associated with the mental ability to adjust its activity and content, switch between different task rules and corresponding behavioral responses, maintain multiple concepts simultaneously and shift internal attention between them.[1] The term cognitive flexibility is traditionally used to refer to one of the executive functions.[2] In this sense, it can be seen as neural underpinnings of adaptive and flexible behavior. Most flexibility tests were developed under this assumption several decades ago. Nowadays, cognitive flexibility can also be referred to as a set of properties of the brain that facilitate flexible yet relevant switching between functional brain states... An alternative educational approach informed by cognitive flexibility is hypertext, which is frequently computer-supported instruction. Computers allow for complex data to be presented in a multidimensional and coherent format, allowing users to access that data as needed. The most widely used example of hypertext is the Internet, which dynamically presents information in terms of interconnection (e.g. hyperlinks). Hypertext documents, therefore, include nodes – bits of information – and links, the pathways between these nodes. Applications for teacher education have involved teacher-training sessions based on video instruction, whereby novice teachers viewed footage of master teachers conducting a literacy workshop. In this example, the novice teachers received a laserdisc of the course content, a hypertext document that allowed the learners to access content in a self-directed manner. These cognitive flexibility hypertexts (CFH) provide a "three-dimensional" and "open-ended" representation of material for learners, enabling them to incorporate new information and form connections with preexisting knowledge.[39] While further research is needed to determine the efficacy of CFH as an instructional tool, classrooms where cognitive flexibility theory (CFT) is applied in this manner are hypothesized to result in students more capable of transferring knowledge across domains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_flexibility (more)

hmm, is this expert product management pattern-matching? intuition? judgment? Fingertip Feeling? (more)

Ash Maurya on Customer Forces. How to Understand Your Customers Better Than They Do. (more)

Micropreneur conference run by Micropreneur Academy guys. (more)

Erin Kissane: Tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow. Nothing of any importance happens in a building or a town except what is defined within the patterns which repeat themselves. —Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building. At the core of Christopher Alexander’s work is the belief that the shape and character of our spaces cannot help but influence the events that repeat inside them (more)