Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Google, CareerCup), Jackie Bavaro (Asana): Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology ISBN:0984782818. Note this isn't the same as becoming a good product manager. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky interviews Martin Cagan on Product management theater. What is driving this recent spiciness in your writing? (more)

Max Planck: Science Progresses One Funeral At A Time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle cf progress, transformation

Jeff Gothelf: (Management) Ego killed the empowered product team. By now you’ve most certainly read Martin Cagan’s article on Product teams vs Feature Teams. ((2019-08-29) Cagan Product Vs Feature Teams) (more)

Martin Cagan on Product Leadership Theater. The previous article on Product Management Theater proved to be quite popular. ((2024-01-30) CaganProductManagementTheater) (more)

Martin Cagan and Joakim Sunden: The Product Model at Spotify. I don’t think they get the credit in the product community they deserve. I believe that’s mostly because people that think they know “The Spotify Model” are focused on the wrong things, and not what has made them such a strong, long-term competitor (more)

Robin Berjon: The Internet Transition. Andrew Bourke’s Principles of Social Evolution opens on the story of a “scientifically curious protozoan” (more)

Martin Cagan on Product Management Theater. I have been warning for several years that delivery team product owners, and feature team product managers are likely going to be facing a reckoning as companies realize that these roles are not what they thought they were. (more)

This will be the focal page for some linked excerpts of A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. The scope ranges from room details to Society Design. You can free the full-text by buying the book or going to his site. (Some excerpts are re-worded a bit to directly use WikiNames instead of making those pattern names as redundant labels in the text. So the wording here may be a bit less elegant at times...) There's a strong SmallWorld flavor here. (more)

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trilogy of large novels (total ~2500 pages) by Neal Stephenson: Quick Silver, The Confusion, The System Of The World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle. Basically takes place over the lifetime of Isaac Newton (1642-1727), and he is sometimes a major character in the books. (Though large sections go without a mention of him.) (more)

The 2nd biggest service of the Fediverse, after Mastodon. Misskey is an open-source and distributed platform for microblogging. Development was started in 2014 by syuilo in Japan. It features an abundance of features such as Drive, Reactions and more as well as a very high UI customizability. While Misskey started centered around Bulletin Boards as its main feature, the growth in popularity due to the addition of a timeline that let users post short messages and view them in chronological order lead to a gradual shift in the main focus of development towards this kind of functionality. Misskey was not always a decentralized service, but became decentralized through the adoption of ActivityPub in 2018. https://misskey-hub.net/en/docs/about-misskey/ (more)

Robin Berjon is a French computer scientist and political writer. He is the editor of the W3C HTML5 specification.[1] In 2012 he was elected to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) but he resigned early in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Berjon Working on IPFS. (more)

computer from Apple Computer that runs MacOS (and now MacOS-X). (more)

the Apple Macintosh Operating System built on top of FreeBSD. (more)

An antilibrary is a collection of books that are owned but have not yet been read. The term was coined by Nassim Taleb. The concept it describes has been compared to the Japanese tsundoku. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilibrary your to-read booklist (more)

The naturalistic decision making (NDM) framework emerged as a means of studying how people make decisions and perform cognitively complex functions in demanding, real-world situations. These include situations marked by limited time, uncertainty, high stakes, team and organizational constraints, unstable conditions, and varying amounts of experience... The NDM movement originated at a conference in Dayton, Ohio in 1989, which resulted in a book (Decision Making in Action: Models and Methods ISBN:978-0-89391-943-6) by Gary Klein, Judith Orasanu, Roberta Calderwood, and Caroline Zsambok.[1] The NDM framework focuses on cognitive functions such as decision making, sensemaking, situational awareness, and planning – which emerge in natural settings and take forms that are not easily replicated in the laboratory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_decision-making (more)

parable/meme about not letting any Nazis into your bar - These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after a while, they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too. And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh dang, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar cf Tipping Point, social media (esp Twitter), virtual community

Friendica (formerly Friendika, originally Mistpark) is a free and open-source software[5] distributed social network. It forms one part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers... Friendica users can connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Diaspora, Pump.io, GNU social, email, Discourse[9] and more recently ActivityPub (including Mastodon, Pleroma and Pixelfed) and Bluesky[10][11] into their 'newsfeed'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica (more)