The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP26, was the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference, held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 13 November 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference
Government subsidy of fossil fuels continue, despite accelerating climate change.
Jeffrey Leonard: Energy subsidies (Subsidy) are the sordid legacy of more than sixty years of politics as usual in Washington, and they cost us somewhere around $20 billion a year... Energy subsidies take many forms. Some of them are direct outlays of taxpayer dollars, like payments to corn producers for Ethanol. Most are in the form of tax benefits, such as the deduction for “intangible drilling costs” (labor, repairs, hauling, you name it) in oil exploration—a notoriously abused provision of the tax code. The sheer number of subsidies is part of what makes them so hard to track. (more)
Combining a number of offerings/features that could be sold separately into a single purchase. e.g. CableCo. cf UnBundling
dismantling a collection/entity (more)
Zvi Mowshowitz: Junk Fees, Bundling and Unbundling. Joe Biden harped on junk fees during the State of the Union. While I do not think it is the problem of our time, I take things in the reference class of resort fees, or fees to have adjacent seats on an airplane, and other such unbundling (and bundling) surprisingly seriously. I am putting up my thoughts here so I have a reference to fall back upon. (more)
Gordon Brander: Tools for thought should evolve building blocks. Goldberg’s paper is about designing genetic algorithms (GAs), but the patterns he identifies reveal deep insights about innovation in general. They also suggest new ways of thinking about tools for thought. Let's unpack! (more)
Made-For-Advertising Websites Are Still Harming Advertisers (Exclude These 280+ Sites Now). the focus of a Made-For-Advertising website is to get the user to click or view as many ads as possible on their page. (more)
A decent career path is to join a soft Product Team (more)
meditation-adjacent (more)
Note-maker, map-maker (MOCs). LYT Kit. TV editing (Better Call Saul, AE), Pink Gloves Boxing. PREV: engineer, college FB all-american, 3x national champ, coach. https://twitter.com/NickMilo/ (more)
Julian Bleecker will be running a GeneralSeminar session on "Futures of Human Organization". (more)
Ash Maurya: Crafting Attention-Grabbing Unique Value Propositions (UVP). The first battle for any product is getting noticed by customers. This isn’t the job of your demo or solution but your unique value proposition (UVP). (more)
Tired of Dating Apps (dating market), Some Turn to Google Docs. Writers of so-called Date-Me Docs, which can read like 1,000-word versions of the personal ads of yore, hope for a more meaningful connection than a swipe might allow. (more)
Ash Maurya: Position Against Your True Competition to Win the Customer. (more)
Ash Maurya: The Art of Experiment Design. Running experiments is a key activity for continuous innovation. But simply running a bunch of experiments is not enough. (more)
My current venture is Muse.app, an infinite canvas for thinking. In the past I made the Ink and Switch research lab and Heroku for web app deployment. https://adamwiggins.com/
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!
Current:
- head of product for an early-stage boot-strapped company
- founder FluxGarden for Digital Garden hosting
- wrote Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems ASIN:B00HHJA5JS
My Coding for fun.
Past:
- Director Product Managment, NCSA Sports
- CTO/Product Manager at a series of startups: MedScape, then Axiom Legal, then Living Independently, then DailyLit, then AEP...
- founded Family Financial Future, personal-financial-planning nagware for parents
- consulting
- founded Teamflux.com, a hosting service for wiki-based collaboration spaces.
- founded Wikilogs.com, a hosting service for WikiLog-s (wiki-based weblogs).
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
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