Steven Johnson's 2012 book Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age ISBN:1594488207 (more)

stock in a company held by employees (founds and others) (more)

Amazon rule to keep teams as Small Teams. (more)

Donald Trump phrase/supporter

Brink Lindsey sees Libertarian folks moving from Republican to Democratic parties. Libertarian-leaning voters started drifting away from the GOP even before Katrina, civil war in Iraq, and Mark Foley launched the general stampede. (more)

Tales From the Andy Warhol Factory. He went into Pop Art because he saw that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein started to get all that attention. (more)

Behind the walls of Andy Warhol’s secretive Factory. Stephen Shore, who quietly documented the glittering figures of Andy Warhol’s Factory between 1965 and 1967, has to go down in history as the least fazed 17-year-old boy to have ever come into contact with extremely cool people. As the influential photographer recalls in Factory: Andy Warhol, the just-published treatise by Phaidon, he was granted permission to take photographs of Warhol and his inner circle by simply walking up to the artist and asking if he could.

John Higgs: The High Priest and the Great Beast: Timothy Leary's Belief That He Was a 'Continuation' of Aleister Crowley. In 1972 Dr. Tim Leary picked up a pack of Aleister Crowley-designed tarot cards and asked them the question, “Who am I and what is my destiny?” He then cut the pack and found the Ace of Discs, the card that Crowley believed represented himself (more)

On Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History. We chose a chronology of IID projects and approaches rather than a deep comparative analysis. (more)

Tom Gilb (full name "Thomas Steven Gilb", born 1940) is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes... He is known for his early work on evolutionary software development processes[1] from 1968 to 1981, which was a forerunner of agile software development methods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Gilb

original Extreme Programming project - aka C3

The term is also used in software engineering, where a retrospective is a meeting held by a project team at the end of a project or process (often after an iteration) to discuss what was successful about the project or time period covered by that retrospective, what could be improved, and how to incorporate the successes and improvements in future iterations or projects. Retrospective can be done in many different ways. The Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki is a resource for sharing retrospective plans, tips & tricks, tools and ideas to help us get the most out of our retrospectives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective#Software_development (cf Incident Analysis, Learning Organization, post-mortem) (more)

Martin Cagan: Visiontyping and the Hands-On Executive. Executives that are deeply involved in the company’s products... the executive meets frequently with the product team, sharing his thoughts and ideas, looking at prototypes and the results of user testing, providing encouragement and inspiration, and being open to new information and new approaches that move the idea forward. (more)

Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, UN says. Global plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, according to a report from the UN Environment Programme (Unep). The changes needed are major, but are also practical and affordable, the agency said. (more)

Paul Polman: Plastics are in our air, food, and water. A reckoning is coming–and smart businesses can see it. Plastic waste is set to treble by 2060. Globally, only 9% is successfully recycled. The rest is mostly incinerated or ends up as landfill, or pollution in our oceans and environment. (more)

Steve Yegge: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat. Everyone making SaaS on LLMs, including coding assistants like Cody and Copilot, was rocked by the AI news events of last week. (more)

UN Member States are currently negotiating a legally-binding, international agreement on plastics that will address the entire life cycle of plastics, from design to production and disposal...The second meeting of the negotiating committe (INC-2) will take place in Paris, France from May 29, 2023 through June 2, 2023....Until the end of 2024, three more meetings are planned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_plastic_pollution_treaty

Steve Yegge: Cheating is All You Need. There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is. LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both. (more)

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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

Oligarchy; 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

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