Ash Maurya offers his template for documenting his Business Model hypotheses (Customer Development and others) for a WebApp-focused Lean Startup. He calls this his Lean Canvas. (more)

Walter Jackson Ong SJ (November 30, 1912 – August 12, 2003) was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian, and philosopher. His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness. In 1978 he served as elected president of the Modern Language Association... In 1941 Ong earned a master's degree in English at Saint Louis University. His thesis on sprung rhythm in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins[1] was supervised by the young Canadian Marshall McLuhan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong

Autonomy is buying Verity. The two companies' technology approaches are radically different, and Autonomy will face significant challenges in integrating them. Autonomy's pattern-matching-based technology is most effective in analyzing large, richly structured bodies of information. By contrast, Verity is oriented more toward individual words and their explicit meanings.

co-founder and CEO at Every

IFTF: How to Use ChatGPT for Strategic Foresight: Limitations, Possibilities, and Workarounds. Over the last few weeks, we’ve witnessed impressive demonstrations of ChatGPT at work. We’ve seen it write code, do math homework, produce college essays and screenplays, answer complex questions on almost any topic (more)

AI Writing Tools Like ChatGPT Are the Future of Learning & No, It’s Not Cheating. Sally Brandon, a communications lecturer at Melbourne’s Deakin University, applied bot detection technology to 54 essays she marked over summer and found 10 had “significant, detectable bot assistance”. (more)

Inside-Higher-Ed: Freaking Out About ChatGPT. Over the weekend, lots of folks working in academia learned that the OpenAI, ChatGPT interface is now capable of producing convincing (though uninspired) college student quality writing to just about any prompt within seconds. (more)

Clive Thompson: On Bullshit, And AI-Generated Prose. *There’s a word for prose and speech that exist mostly just to fill the space: bullshit. Recently, OpenAI released “ChatGPT”, a quite remakable chatbot. It’s built atop GPT-3 (more)

Andrew: TfT #1 / Tools of Tomorrow: 5 key trends for Tools for Thought (more)

Erik Hoel: I Got an Artificial Intelligence to Write My Novel. According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, among writers “influence always proceeds by misinterpretation.” In The Anxiety of Influence, Bloom argues that writers willfully ignore and misinterpret their predecessors in order to make their canvases as blank as possible. (more)

Noah Raford gave a talk on "Collapse dynamics: Phase transitions in complex social systems". (more)

MarketingBS: A Review of Talent. Today’s essay takes a look at Tyler Cowen's latest book, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (co-written with Daniel Gross). (more)

Dan Shipper: Can GPT-3 Explain My Past and Tell My Future? What do you want to know about yourself? asks the bot. The bot is built with GPT-3, and has access to hundreds of my old journal entries from the last 10 years that it can use to answer my questions. (journaling) (more)

work done by a Team, esp D And D (more)

Google internal project/research to investigate what makes a successful team (team work). https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/ See Psychological Safety.

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have topped 100,000 for the first time. More than 100,000 people died over a 12-month period from fatal drug overdoses for the first time in U.S. history, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. (more)

co-founder Groove. Brother of Ray Ozzie

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This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)

My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Evolution by increasing Freedom, Agency, and Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (SmallWorld) via D And D of Thinking Tools (software and Games To Play).

See Intro Page for space-related goals, status, etc.; or Wiki Node for more terse summary info.

Beware the War On The Net!

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Current:

My Coding for fun.

Past:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billseitz/

Agile Product Development, Product Management from MVP to Product-Market Fit, Adding Product To Your Startup Team, Agility, Context, and Team Agency, (2022-10-12) Accidental Learnings of a Journeyman Product Manager

My Coding

Big Levers, Theory of Change, Change the World, (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future; Network Enlightenment, Optimistic Near Future Vision; Huge Invention; Alternatives To A College Degree; Credit Crisis 2008; Economic Transition; Network Economy; Making A Living; Varieties Of Info Technology Jobs; Generative Schooling; Product Oriented Unschooling; Reality Hacker; A 20th Century Economic Theory

FluxGarden; Network Enlightenment Ecosystem; ThinkingTools Interaction as Medium; Hypermedia Pattern Language; Everyone Needs Their Own ThinkingSpace; Digital Garden; Virtual ThinkingSpace; Thinking Tools Companies; Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts; My CollaborationWare History; Wiki Proliferation; Portal Collaboration Roadmap; Wiki For GroupWare, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, Email Discussion Beside Wiki, Wiki For CollaborationWare, Collaboration Roadmap; Sister Sites; Wiki Hack

Personal Cloud; 2018-11-29-NextOpenInfrastructure, 2018-11-15-BooksVsTweets; Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock

Social Warrens; Culture War; 2017-02-15-MindmapCultureWarSocialMediaEconomy; Cultural Pluralism

Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Small Tribe, SimplestThing, Becoming A Reality Hacker, Less-Bullshit Living, The Craft; Games To Play; Evolution, Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems

Digital Therapeutics, (2021-05-26) Pondering a Mental Health space, CoachBot; Inside-Out Markov Chain

Book list, Greatest Books

To Write

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