You Can't be a Citizen of a ThemePark. from Cory Doctorow: (2005-10-11) Doctorow Themepunks

aka Chief Product Officer, Product Leader, Head of Product (more)

Packaging A YouTube Transcript for reading/highlighting (for my digital garden): (more)

Note-taking app with an orientation toward semi-structured data/document-oriented rather than running-freetext: "Write information, not documents." https://www.tana.inc/ (more)

Robin Sloan character (more)

anti-pattern of treating your product team like a feature team, that mindlessly executes others' (stakeholder, HiPPO) ideas, and is judged on output (aka meeting deadline) rather than outcomes. Corrected approach: Agile Product Development.

JPod is a novel by Douglas Coupland published by Random House of Canada in 2006. Set in 2005, the book explores the strange and unconventional everyday life of the main character, Ethan Jarlewski, and his team of video game programmers whose last names all begin with the letter 'J'. JPod was adapted into a CBC television series of the same name co-created by Douglas Coupland and Michael MacLennan. It premiered on January 8, 2008, and ran until its cancellation on March 7, 2008, leaving the series with a permanent cliffhanger. The first thirteen episodes of the series aired in the United States on The CW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPod (more)

Screens, Research, and Hypertext, an online hypertext-ebook/wiki-ebook by Joe Miller https://screensresearchhypertext.com/ (more)

In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input.[1][2] Nonlinear problems are of interest to engineers, biologists,[3][4][5] physicists,[6][7] mathematicians, and many other scientists because most systems are inherently nonlinear in nature.[8] Nonlinear dynamical systems, describing changes in variables over time, may appear chaotic, unpredictable, or counterintuitive, contrasting with much simpler linear systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system (more)

book by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais on choosing team patterns for your organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams. ASIN:B07NSF94PC (more)

classic Fred Brooks book on assumption-errors in planning software deadlines

aka Memory Machines: The Evolution Of HyperText, by Belinda Barnet ISBN:1783083441 (more)

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon is a 2013 bestselling book written by journalist Brad Stone. It documents the rise of Amazon.com in the 1990s, its near demise during the dot-com bust, and its subsequent revival with the inventions of Amazon Prime, the Kindle and Amazon Web Services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Everything_Store ISBN:978-0-316-21926-6

The ultimate theoretical HyperText universe. Founded 1960 by Ted Nelson. (more)

Gordon Brander: Imagine a notebook. This notebook is designed to last decades. It’s your diary, your art practice, your novel, your scrapbook, your thesis, your stray ideas… maybe your lifework? Your second brain. (more)

10 Best Web Highlighters for Desktop in 2022. It helps us improve our productivity by copying and pasting important texts you’ve found online automatically (more)

Welfare for old people who already have money. :) (more)

Putting yourself at (usually financial) personal risk. Some people think it improves (honest) Decision-Making. (See Taleb SITG.) In the phrase, "skin" is a synecdoche for the person involved, and "game" is the metaphor for actions on the field of play under discussion (game theory).[1] The aphorism is particularly common in business, finance, and gambling, and is also used in politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_game_(phrase) (more)

variant of prototype to communicate product vision - sometimes used to pitch a vision upward, better used to share a vision in all directions internally (more)

shared vision giving context for your Product Strategy - see Strategic Context, (2020-08-04) Cagan Product Vision Vs Mission; examples