Cedric Chin: Product Validation Frameworks are Useless Without Taste. Product validation methodologies consist of two parts: an explicitly followable process, and a tacit component that may be best described as ‘having good product judgment’, or ‘product taste’. (see earlier (2021-03-21) Chin Product Development As Iterated Taste) (more)

Taylor Pearson training course, which is my primary structure for goal-setting from this week to 25-years out. https://taylorpearson.me/tee/ (more)

Steven Johnson's new project is Findings for Social Reading. At its core, Findings is a service that allows you to capture, store, search, and share small snippets of text from eBooks and web pages. It integrates Kindle highlights and web clippings (with more input options to come.) And it gives you the ability to share those quotes with your peers, as well as follow other people’s quotes through your timeline. (more)

Lifestyle Design based on not Goal Setting. (more)

Goal Setting/ToDoList app/service (more)

aka Robert Haisfield - "behavioral product strategist and gamification designer" https://robhaisfield.com/ (more)

Enjoyed playing it a lot in High School, except in marching band (which I was drafted into), and also carrying the bloody thing home for over a mile. (more)

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a W3C recommendation designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies (taxonomy), subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is part of the Semantic Web family of standards built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to enable easy publication and use of such vocabularies as linked data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_System

Chris Aldrich: Webmention for TiddlyWiki to enable website to website notifications and communication. I’m going to focus on using a third party service to do all of the heavy lifting and code our behalf. It’s relatively common, especially in the static website space, for websites to rely on third party or publisher services to either send or receive Webmentions on their behalf (more)

Chris Aldrich: A note taking problem and a proposed solution. tl;dr It’s too painful to quickly get frequent notes into note taking and related platforms. Hypothes.is has an open API and a great UI that can be leveraged to simplify note taking processes (more)

Chris Aldrich on Hypothes.is as an off-label zettelkasten?! It wasn’t built specifically to be used as one, but is anyone actively using Hypothes.is as an off-label zettelkasten just by itself? The platform has most of the basic functionalities one would want for a digital ZK (more)

Chris Aldrich: Reframing and simplifying the idea of how to keep a Zettelkasten. Hopefully this distillation will get you moving in a positive direction for having a useful daily practice, but without an excessive amount of work and perhaps a bit less cognitive dissonance. (more)

Chris Aldrich: Creating a commonplace book or zettelkasten index from Hypothes.is tags. I thought it might be useful to have a relatively complete list of cross linked topical headings in my digital notebook (currently Obsidian) which is a mélange of wiki, zettelkasten, journal, project management tool, notebook, and productivity tool (more)

Chris Aldrich: Call for Model Examples of Zettelkasten Output Processes. Very little of the discussion or examples I’ve seen in online fora, social media, websites, and the blogosphere is focused on actively using them for creating actual long form output. (more)

typically associated with jazz, but could be any non-orchestra over a certain size (more)

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical during the same year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Marsalis (more)

The Either/Orchestra (E/O) is a jazz group formed by Russ Gershon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1985. E/O is configured as a "small big band", with three saxes, two trumpets and one or two trombones. E/O's is characterized by a heavier and more orchestrated sound than that of a smaller jazz combo, but remains more streamlined and Improv-oriented than most Big Band-s... Drawing on leader Gershon's experience on the Boston rock scene coupled with the diverse musical backgrounds of its members, the outlines of the Either/Orchestra were influenced by Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Either/Orchestra (more)

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, pianist, composer, big-bandleader, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history,[1] with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Herbie Hancock. Mingus' compositions continue to be played by contemporary musicians ranging from the repertory bands Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty, and Mingus Orchestra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus

Tim Bray on Charles Mingus. (more)

What Does A 21st Century Big Band Sound Like? A variety of big bands dotted the jazz landscape at the turn of the millenium: revivalists like Wynton Marsalis’ Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, jazz-funk outfits like Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, bands with star crooners like Michael Bublé, and composition-forward ensembles like the Maria Schneider Orchestra. More recently, a number of younger, forward-thinking big bands have emerged, offering fresh visions of how a modern big band should look, sound, function, and fit into the broader world of jazz. Get to know five ensembles that are bringing big band music into focus in the 21st century with this primer. (more)