Stuart Kauffman concept. I can begin to imagine making models of how the universe gets more complex, but at the same time I'm hamstrung... How do we get started on something where we could talk about the future of a biosphere? There is a chance that there are general laws. I've thought about four of them. One of them says that autonomous agents have to live the most complex game (complex system) that they can. The second has to do with the construction of EcoSystems. The third has to do with Per Bak's Self Organized criticality in ecosystems. And the fourth concerns the idea of the Adjacent Possible. It just may be the case that biospheres on average keep expanding into the adjacent possible. By doing so they increase the Diversity of what can happen next. It may be that biospheres, as a secular trend, maximize the rate of exploration of the adjacent possible. If they did it too fast, they would destroy their own internal organization, so there may be internal gating mechanisms. This is why I call this an average secular trend, since they explore the Adjacent Possible as fast as they can get away with it. There's a lot of neat science to be done to unpack that, and I'm thinking about it. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman03/kauffman_index.html (more)

Category Pirates: Stop Teaching, Start Transforming: Meet The AI That Turns Your Ideas Into Life Breakthroughs. Fast. Most people think they have a knowledge problem. (more)

CategoryPirates: 10 AI prompts to create a powerful and compelling POV. Most founders, creators, and entrepreneurs think they have a Point of View (POV). (more)

Amy Hoy: Niches Don't Work - but Worldviews Do. Niches are groups of people. Typically a niche defines a group of people by slots and numbers: middle-aged housewives, young men with disposable income and technical skills between the age of 18 and 35. (more)

point of view

Ash Maurya: Extending the Job Story to a Customer Forces Story. Customer Forces Stories are a powerful way of summarizing customer conversations during your search for problem/solution fit. (customer interview) (more)

Ash Maurya: Reorder your Chain of Beliefs with a leaner Lean Canvas. The real challenge isn’t idea generation, but idea validation....at the earliest stages, however, it helps to more narrowly focus attention on just the two outer boxes of the canvas: Customer segment and Problem. (Problem Discovery, Customer Discovery) (more)

for word-game, see MadLibs (more)

slower, more deliberative, and more logical thinking - see Thinking, Fast and Slow

fast, instinctive and emotional - see Thinking, Fast and Slow

final/tiny presentation of John Boyd (more)

typically a lite Issue Tracker (more)

Inside Trello's reinvention as a personal tasks app. What exactly is Trello? Despite counting myself as a heavy-duty power user of the product for well over a decade now, it’s a question I’ve long struggled to answer. (more)

The Heart of Innovation: A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand, By Matt Chanoff, Merrick Furst, Daniel Sabbah and Mark Wegman. ISBN:9781523005703 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738442/the-heart-of-innovation-by-matt-chanoff-merrick-furst-daniel-sabbah-and-mark-wegman/ (more)

alternative frame to product-market-fit, model from The Heart of Innovation; see not not

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Outliner, to-do list https://checkvist.com/ (more)

John Cutler: Founder Market Fit (FMF) is, in many ways, far more important than Product Market Fit. If a market (and the resultant "go to market") clashes with how a founder thinks about selling, building, representing the company, hiring, quality, preserving customer trust, or the potential/role of product teams.... no amount of a "validating", experimentation, etc. will make a difference* (more)

Brian Balfour: There are four essential fits: Market Product Fit (not Product Market Fit), Product Channel Fit, Channel Model Fit, Model Market Fit. I'm going to dedicate a post to each of these fits, along with how you can apply this framework. (more)

Brian Balfour: Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. (Four Fits) There are certain companies where growth seems to come easily, like guiding a boulder down hill. These companies grow despite having organizational chaos, not executing the “best” growth practices, and missing low hanging fruit. I refer to these companies as Smooth Sailers. The whole series of post-excerpts is on this page. (more)