The term autopoiesis (from Greek αὐτo- (auto-) 'self' and ποίησις (poiesis) 'creation, production') refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts.[1] The term was introduced in the 1972 publication Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to define the self-maintaining chemistry of living cells. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis

series of books/services by Michael Gerber (more)

The idea, widely held by the Extropian crowd, that the curve of the total knowledge of humankind will continue to accelerate (Knowledge Growth) until it goes roughly vertical, at which point we will transcend humanity itself. Or something like that. (more)

Management? Or Midget?

If I were nudging a 15-30yo semi-normie/newbie toward becoming a reality hacker, what would I slide over? (Subliminal Subversives) (more)

Michael Gerber (EMyth) says every Entrepreneur worth his or her salt is a Systems Thinker (Systems Thinking)... A Systems Thinker sees meaning in everything, and if not, pursues everything until the meaning becomes clear, until the System reveals itself in all its glory. (not at all sure I agree, but it's an interesting thought...) He sketches his Key Frustrations Process.

a document some people (aka managers) write to help their employees work with them more successfully (more)

less-formal-exec version of Chief Product Officer

aka Policies And Procedures, Procedures Manual (more)

Cedric Chin: To Get Good, Go After The Metagame. Every sufficiently interesting game has a metagame above it. This is the game about the game. It is often called ‘the meta’. (more)

Cedric Chin: Let's talk about how note taking can help you accelerate expertise. (tweetstorm followed by longer article) (more)

David R. MacIver: The Manual that solves all your problems. Paul Erdos had a concept of The Book, in which God had written down the shortest most elegant proof of every conceivable mathematical problem (more)

hmm, is this expert product management pattern-matching? intuition? judgment? fingertip-feeling? (more)

Jason Cohen: Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect. Here’s some common examples so you can train your pattern-matching engine, and see how to navigate the conversations. (more)

Pattern Matching - a sense-making process, see also case study

business structure for rolling out a Business Model at large scale, but charging people (non-employees, entrepreneurs) for the right to join that model (more)

John Robb notes that the new Us Army Field Manual on Counter Insurgency (Dealing With Terrorism) doesn't ever mention the term FourGW.

Money Is Like Gasoline During A Road Trip, Tim O'Reilly says. "You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money." (2010-05-01) Tim Oreilly The Oracle Of Silicon Valley (more)

Steve Denning: Re-Imagining The Very Concept Of Management. Figure 1: labels for digital-age management.... The question remains: What to call this radically different management? (business agility) (more)

Steve Denning: Why Agile Needs To Take Over Management Itself. Let’s face it. The age of agile has not arrived. The twenty-year effort to persuade large corporations to become Agile enterprises has largely failed. (business agility) (more)