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)

(physical) location where sale transaction happens - e.g. cash register

Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.[12]) (SquareUp) is an American technology company and a financial services provider for consumers and merchants.[13][14][15] Founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey, it is the U.S. market leader in point-of-sale systems.[16][17][18] As of 2024, Block serves 57 million users and 4 million sellers,[19][20] processing $241 billion in payments annually.[4] Block's inaugural product Square, launched in 2009, is a point-of-sale system...Block also owns Afterpay, a buy now, pay later business;[33] Bitkey, a self-custody bitcoin crypto wallet;[34][35] Proto, a bitcoin mining system;[36][37] and Tidal, a music streaming business... On March 2, 2021, Square reached an agreement to acquire majority ownership in Tidal. Square paid $297 million in cash and stock for Tidal, with Jay-Z joining the company's board of directors. Jay-Z, as well as other artists who currently own stock in Tidal, will remain stakeholders.[55][56][57] On December 1, 2021, Square announced that it would change its company name to Block, Inc. on December 10.[58][59] The change was announced shortly after Dorsey resigned as CEO of Twitter.[60] On December 10, 2021, the name change took effect, and Square, Inc. became Block, Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block,_Inc.

Jack Dorsey Mobile Payment system. (more)

nostr-based distributed agent+human workspace software forge from Block/Jack Dorsey (more)

Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr. (/ˈmænsər/;[2] January 22, 1932 – February 19, 1998) was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most influential contributions were to new institutional economics, and focused on the role played by private property, taxation, public goods, collective action, and contract rights in economic development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancur_Olson (more)

Accelerated Expertise expert: https://acsilabs.org/team/lia-a-dibello/ (more)

Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack.com with Buzz.xyz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents. Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new app on Tuesday called Buzz. Positioned as a challenger to Slack and GitHub, Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversations. (more)

Jack Dorsey's buzz.xyz: the Dev Workflow Game Changer We Didn't Know We Needed? It's an integration of team chat, AI agents, and Git hosting. As a full-stack dev grinding on Next.js, TypeScript, and constantly wrangling Supabase and various AI APIs, this immediately piqued my interest. (more)

Jack Dorsey: why we're buzzing. yesterday we released buzz.xyz. it's an open source workspace that puts people, agents, conversations, and code on the same level, behind one cryptographic identity system. we built it to reduce our dependency on slack.com and github, and we're sharing it so anyone can do the same. (more)

Swedish essayist. I used to be a programmer and last worked in an art gallery. I write about things I like--relationships, literature, agency, attentiveness escapingflatland.substack.com/ https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/

free diagram tool - mimics hand-drawn style like Balsamiq Mockups https://excalidraw.com/ (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The Most Important Charts In The World (more)

Visakan Veerasamy: Are you serious? It’s frustrating to not be taken seriously. (more)

Michael Strong: The Most Progressive Movement on the Planet. What if there was a global movement that had the potential to eliminate poverty and war in our lifetimes by expanding opportunity for the world's poorest people? Most people would regard such a movement as an extraordinary source of hope and progress; it could lay claim to being the most progressive movement on the planet. What is this movement? (more)

AI companies are racing to build AIs that are smarter than humans in every way. In AI 2027, we predicted that this would result in either extinction or irreversible concentration of power. Plan A is our positive vision for what should happen instead. https://ai-2040.com/ (more)

Library Startup ‘Briet’ Wants to Revolutionize E-Book Sales, Not Licensing. With publishers and libraries at odds over e-book licensing’s long-term expense, hold times, and ethical concerns, a new platform called Briet is pursuing an open-access approach. Briet invites publishers to sell their e-books to libraries outright, providing universal, perpetual access. Several independent publishers including PM Press, Punctum, Sideshow, and Silver Sprocket are on board. (more)

Paul Ford: AI is ushering in a miraculous age. We shouldn’t waste it. There’s a lot swirling right now (more)

Paul Ford: Claude Code for web ruined my brain. Anthropic recently launched a browser-based version of its Claude Code product. I’ve been using their desktop- (or rather, terminal-) based coding tool for nearly a year. Now it’s on the web, and in their mobile app (more)

Chris Butler: Decision-Forcing Cases: Gaining experience without the hurt. Product people play an amorphous, uncertain, and constantly renegotiated role on product teams. To do well in that role requires experience. (more)