Social Networking service designed around Warrens instead of Plazas (Warrens vs Plaza) to try and counter BigWorld Pathological patterns. (more)

Elena Verna: Growth Is Now a Trust Problem. All of us are fighting a war on three fronts (thanks to AI). Customer product expectations are higher than ever. Distribution channels are collapsing. And everyone - big incumbents, new startups, even your own customers with vibecoding - are coming for your value prop. How are you supposed to grow in this new landscape? (more)

Henrik Karlsson: What problem should you be working on now? At 25, when Johanna and I bought a house and had to pick an internet provider, we decided to go with the smallest data plan, 5 GB a month. I can recommend it. (more)

Jonas Wallenius: Most product management work is translation. Domain → specs → tickets → meetings → misunderstandings. I find myself increasingly building throwaway prototypes to show what I mean instead. Perfect Perfect match for LLM capabilities. And they're only getting better... (more)

Michael Sippey: Stash App - an app to stash your notes. No folders, no navigation. Just your timestamped notes, newest on top, oldest on the bottom. Fast search, #hashtags, @mentions. Stash App is sort of like your own private social media app...but without any of the social, or any of the media. Native for macOS and iOS, syncs via iCloud. (more)

Chase Jarvis: How I Simplified My Morning Routine for Better Results. Before I even leave the comfort of my bed, I engage in a 15-minute meditation session (more)

Elena Verna: You don't need to build a personal brand. Trying to build your personal brand early in your career is pointless. Instead, focus on doing the best work of your life, and your brand will follow. (more)

Elena Verna: Building In Public is scary. Do it anyway. Most companies still operate like it’s 2012: hide everything, build in silence, save it all for one glossy launch. (more)

Lean Startup guru https://www.leanfoundry.com/ (more)

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)

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)

Dark Forest Operating System https://www.dfos.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)

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)

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)