Android app I used on my Pixel 2 XL to access my work MsOutlook email and calendar: (2020-01-18) Google Calendar vs Microsoft Calendar.

a question you're chewing over for an extended period of time; cf Favorite Problem (more)

figuring out the "right" solution to a user's problem (typically by generating lots of ideas and then evaluating them)

Ward Cunningham Federated Wiki WikiEngine project. http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors/view/about-federated-wiki (more)

Amazon Web Services - joining the IOS Platform competition? (more)

Pondering Twitter, Mastodon, blogs, Discord/Slack.com, Digital Gardening, FedWiki (more)

EcoSystem for Information Co-Creation (and simple creating/consuming) (more)

Ash Maurya: The Problem With Problems – Love the Problem. Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.” (more)

Teresa Torres: Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t). Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. (more)

Martin Cagan: Discovery - Problem vs. Solution. For as long as our industry has existed, people have wanted to separate the product world into “problem space” and “solution space.” The problem your customer has, and the solution we provide to address that problem (more)

Steven Johnson: The Simple Cure. I saw a brief allusion on Twitter to the sad news that Dilip Mahalanabis had died. Mahalanabis was one of the key figures—arguably the key figure—behind Oral Rehydration Therapy, a revolutionary and surprisingly simple technique that has prevented millions of people, particularly children, from dying of diarrheal diseases like cholera over the past few decades (more)

Martin Cagan: Discovery: Learning vs. Insights. Insights are a type of learning. The point is that they are learnings that we can leverage (actionable). (more)

Gordon Brander on Possibility space. In The Library of Babel (1941), Jorge Luis Borges imagines a strange world (more)

Martin Cagan: Market Discovery vs. Product Discovery: product discovery process – discovering a product that is valuable, usable and feasible. (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: How to keep up with web development without falling into despair. People say that web development is unique because of the fast pace and volume of changes in the field. (more)

aka Go

dev, twilio and google interested in improving software development http://akkartik.name/about

Venkatesh Rao: Silicon Valley Vibe Shift. It’s been a tumultuous week in Silicon Valley, marked by significant layoffs. I don’t normally comment on this sort of thing, but this time it is entangled with what feels like a generational Silicon Valley vibe shift comparable to the dotcom bust of 2000. (more)

a change in the zeitgeist vibe

Casey NewtonThe vibe shift in Silicon Valley Last month, Allison P. Davis wrote a widely read article in New York titled “A Vibe Shift Is Coming.” In it, she posited that the third year of our pandemic would reveal an obvious, and perhaps wrenching, evolution of the culture. (more)