complex problem problem-solving approach embracing uncertainty, from Saras Sarasvathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saras_Sarasvathy (more)
some people make more than others - how much is ok (more)
Real Estate Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson (Author), Robert S. Griswold (Author) (more)
Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)
A Game Theory strategy based on the Prisoners Dilemma. (more)
quasi-creator-co-op involving Yancey Strickler https://www.metalabel.com/ (more)
The Silurian Hypothesis: It was the Cephalopods. Text, footage and photographs by Dr. Klaus M. Stiefel. A hypothesis called “The Silurian hypothesis” wins the title of “most interesting hypothesis most likely to be false” for all of science. In brief, the hypothesis postulates that previously a species different from ours had achieved high intelligence and technological civilization on this planet. The Silurian hypothesis (named after “Silurian” aliens in the brainy British TV series “Doctor Who”) was initially proposed by two astronomers, Gavin A. Schmidt and Adam Frank, as a thought experiment, to see if it would even be feasible to detect the traces of such a hypothetical civilization which had existed many millions of years ago. (more)
A pyramid (from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís) 'pyramid',[1][2] from the Egyptian pir-em-us, the vertical height of the structure.[3]) is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be of any polygon shape, such as triangular or quadrilateral, and its surface-lines either filled or stepped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid (more)
Evolution of the solopreneur. The “creator economy” is a tech buzzword used to describe the ecosystem of tools that creators use to earn money and build audiences online. (more)
Scott Scheper Pt. 1 of 5: "The Most Depressing Time of My Life". Roughly a year prior, I had left the cryptocurrency company I had co-founded. (more)
Jess Martin: Collaborating with the invisible. Why do collaboration experiences in applications feel so frustrating? (more)
Yancey Strickler: A theory of groupcore. Metalabel exists to make groupcore: software, tools, ideas, and spaces that help people cooperate. (more)
Parth Shah: I don't use Trello, Asana, or Airtable, I use this app to manage projects on Android. Then I discovered AppFlowy. This open source gem transformed my project management workflow. Here are the top reasons AppFlowy has become my go-to for managing everything, from personal projects to team collaborations. (more)
Yancey Strickler: How to long game. I’ve been in LA this week, an experience that always has me staring into the void. (more)
Yancey Strickler: What the world needs now is groupcore. “Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.” — K-Hole, “Youth Mode,” (more)
Jesse Vincent: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025. It feels like it was just a couple days ago that I wrote up "How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025". (more)
Simon Willison: Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025. A follow-up to Jesse Vincent's post about September, but this is a really significant piece in its own right. 2025-10-09-VincentSuperpowersHowImUsingCodingAgentsInOctober2025 (more)
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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