Steve Denning: In Digital Transformation, The Hardest Part Is Discarding The Past. The core problem for digital transformation is that it conflicts with the driving principle of big business for the last 50 years: the idea that the purpose of a firm is to maximize short-term shareholder value, and must be supported by generous stock compensation for executives to lock in that purpose (MSV). (more)

James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson[a] (born May 7, 1998), better known by his online alias MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, internet personality, philanthropist, and businessman. He is known for his fast-paced and high-production videos featuring elaborate challenges and lucrative giveaways.[11] With over 317 million subscribers, he has the most subscribers of any YouTube channel,[12][13] and is the third-most-followed creator on TikTok with over 103 million followers. He also has over 60 million followers on Instagram and 30.9 million on X (formerly Twitter). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MrBeast

when supply exceeds demand: see pyramid scheme, asset bubble, Elite Overproduction, (2024-02-08) Ayer Enshittification As Overproduction In Software. Abundance?

A memo/mini-book written by MrBeast to "train" his video staff was leaked. I could make a separate book for creative, a separate book for production, a separate book for editors, etc. but I think that’d be dumb. Everything we do here is interconnected and the more you understand about what others are doing and trying to accomplish, the better set up for success you will be (more)

aka pop culture

Mel Conway says Freedom is an Emergent (Phenomenon). What does politics have to do with emergence, and what is emergence anyway? That’s what this essay is about. Here is my deeper agenda: There is an important missing conversation that needs to be happening between social scientists and systems scientists...I will show that there is a single structural pattern that describes a large variety of group cohesion behaviors, some human, some not. (more)

the bird/mammal version of swarming?

Mel Conway: organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. (1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law (more)

Hey Zuck, get those robots out of my social feeds. For a time there was a lot of excitement about an impending Metaverse, but the buzz is now barely audible. These days everyone is enchanted by all-knowing AI chatbots, which are making their claim to be not just the future of computers but the future of everything. What’s a paradigm chaser to do? (more)

Michael Simmons: Brutal Truth: It Takes Years To Become A $100k Thought Leader Working Part-Time (Unless You're Lucky). To be clear, for me, thought leadership is so much more than creating wealth. I was learning, journaling, and writing for years before I made any money because I love the craft (more)

Kyla Scanlon (at EpsilonTheory): The Mr. Beast Memo is a Guide to the Gen Z Workforce. Mr. Beast is one of the most fascinating people in the world. He is somewhat of an Isaac Newton or a da Vinci… for the digital age. He is obsessively a master of his craft, making clickbait-y game show style YouTube videos. (2024-09-15) Leaked MrBeast memo on Production (more)

The ship in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy holding all the people with Bullshit Jobs, such as the telephone sanitizers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants. (more)

Ash Maurya framing of getting early validation

Melissa Perri book: Escaping the Build Trap ISBN:9781491973790

Emergent Tokyo: DESIGNING THE SPONTANEOUS CITY ISBN:1951541324 https://oroeditions.com/product/emergent-tokyo (more)

see audio, syncopated music, music sharing, musical instrument, live performance, etc. (more)

aka Split Test Experiment (more)

A P2P secure network protocol. Intended for sharing only within a smallish group, not with the net at large. (more)

McSweeney's Lists Donald Trump's 1056 Atrocities. Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten.

GNU Guix (/ɡiːks/[2]) is a functional cross-platform package manager and a tool to instantiate and manage Unix-like operating systems, based on the Nix package manager. Configuration and package recipes are written in Guile Scheme. GNU Guix is the default package manager of the GNU Guix System distribution.[3] Differing from traditional package managers, Guix (like Nix) utilizes a purely functional deployment model where software is installed into unique directories generated through cryptographic hashes. All dependencies for each software are included within each hash.[4][5] This solves the problem of dependency hell,[6] allows multiple versions of the same software to coexist and makes packages portable and reproducible. Performing scientific computations in a Guix setup has been proposed as a promising response to the replication crisis... Guix packages are defined through functional Guile Scheme APIs specifically designed for package management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix (more)