SideGig http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hustle (more)

The Film Industry, Publishing Industry, Music Industry, TV, theatre, etc. - not just Big Media (more)

There are a variety of different producers on a television (TV) show, including showrunners, executive producers, supervising producers, coordinating producers, field producers, line producers, among other roles on a television crew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_producer (more)

A showrunner is the top-level executive producer of a television (TV) series.[1][2][3][4] The position outranks other creative and management personnel, including episode directors, in contrast to feature films, in which the director has creative control over the production, and the executive producer's role is limited to investing.[5] In scripted comedy and drama TV shows, the showrunner also usually serves as the head writer (or its most prolific writer). The role of a showrunner is not present on all television series, especially outside the US; this article describes the nature of the role where it is present... The term showrunner was created to identify the executive producer who holds ultimate management and creative authority for the program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrunner

Javier Grillo-Marxuach: The Eleven Laws of Showrunning. For many, the undeniable triumph that is pitching a TV series idea, having a pilot ordered, successfully producing it, and then having it ordered to series is nothing less than a validation: not only of their voice and talent, but also their Way of Doing Things. (more)

a statistical process control chart (graph); free tool to use instead of spreadsheet: https://xmrit.com/ (more)

Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008) was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology.[1][2] He is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_Lorenz

maintaining a startup founder management style even after scaling up; see (2024-09-01) Graham Founder Mode

Dave Karpf: Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder Paul Graham has been bad for Silicon Valley. Without Paul Graham, we would not have YCombinator. And YCombinator is, chiefly, the Cult of the Founder. Silicon Valley would be so much better off without it. The companies that came out of YCombinator would be better off if their leaders weren’t so convinced of their own moral superiority. (more)

Petter Holme: The holistic tribes. This blog post is hopefully the beginning of the lecture notes for an upcoming course. Ultimately, I want to rectify the story of the development of ideas around complex systems, which has neither been a steady and well-informed progression nor a succession of Kuhnian paradigm shifts, but rather something messy and disconnected (more)

Ian Betteridge on Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech. ....the whole founder mode thing is a hot mess is that Paul Graham is entirely wrong about management and leadership (more)

Melissa Perri: My thoughts on "Founder Mode" and why it's dangerous. I had dinner with a few Product Leaders in Berlin the other night that turned into a discussion on how they can work better with founder CEOs. This has always been a tense subject, and I’ve seen a lot of friction firsthand between these two groups. Now, I’m worried this article is going to make it worse. (more)

Bob Marshall: Business Doctrine. What is Business? (more)

Agile Software Development guru (one of the Agile Manifesto authors)

Gary Klein (born February 5, 1944, in New York City, New York, U.S.) is a research psychologist famous for pioneering in the field of naturalistic decision making.[1] By studying experts such as firefighters in their natural environment, he discovered that laboratory models of decision making could not describe it under uncertainty. His recognition-primed decision (RPD) model has influenced changes in the ways the Marines and Army train their officers to make decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_A._Klein (more)

web-based MindMapping app - kinda similar to FreeMind, imports/exports FreeMind, has quick-keys so it's faster to make outline-type-notes than something like Miro. https://www.mindmup.com/ (more)

Dan Davies: the general theory of founders, managers and systems. I’ve been fascinated by the fact that left to themselves in charge of something, intelligent people with an engineering background will always seem to independently come up with something that looks quite like Stafford Beer’s cybernetics... Obviously therefore the first thing that struck me about the “founder mode” essay is that there’s a hell of a lot of cybernetics-adjacent material in there – he even talks about black boxes! (2024-09-01) Graham Founder Mode (more)

Paul Graham on Founder Mode. At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember... The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could be optimistically summarized as "hire good people and give them room to do their jobs." He followed this advice and the results were disastrous. (more)

Cybernetics-based BigGov experiment? (more)

Eden Medina is Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington and the author of Cybernetic Revolutionaries ISBN:9780262525961 (2014). https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262525961/cybernetic-revolutionaries/