Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵), born Shinmen Takezō (新免 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645),[1] also known as Miyamoto Bennosuke and by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku,[2] was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai). Musashi is considered a kensei (sword saint) of Japan.[3] He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū, or Nito Ichi-ryū, style of swordsmanship, and in his final years authored The Book of Five Rings (五輪の書, Go Rin No Sho) and Dokkōdō (獨行道, The Path of Aloneness). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi

being held responsible of the lifecycle from Planning to Status Report (more)

phrase from Dan Davies' Unaccountability Machine: The communication between the decision-maker and the decided-upon has been broken – they have created a handy sink into which negative feedback can be poured without any danger of it affecting anything. Can lead to pathological organization?

The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions? Waiting to board a flight recently... A fellow passenger had been refused boarding and was pleading with the airline attendant. The attendant was obviously sympathetic — but it was down to company policy. We were witnessing what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”: a situation in which a human system delegates decision-making to a rule book rather than an identifiable individual. If something goes wrong, no one is held to account. (more)

Brad DeLong: A Return of "Management Cybernetics" as a Way Forward Out of Economics-Based Neoliberalism? I signed up to write an 800-word review of Dan Davies’s brand-new The Unaccountability Machine. (2024-07-04-DelongHowHumanityLostControl) (more)

Classic sci-fi author

Yiddish (ייִדיש‎, יידיש‎ or אידיש‎, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit. 'Jewish'; ייִדיש-טײַטש‎, historically also Yidish-Taytsh, lit. 'Judeo-German')[10] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews (Judaism). It originated in 9th century[11]: 2  Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.[12][13][14] Yiddish has traditionally been written using the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, there were 11–13 million speakers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish

book by Maggie Bullock ISBN:0063042649 about J. Crew (more)

MicroTask market (more)

Ash Maurya: Stop Wasting Time on Unviable Business Ideas. Too many entrepreneurs prematurely rush to launch their product, join an incubator/accelerator, or hit the pitching circuit only to realize months (or years) later that they were chasing too small an idea (more)

Ash Maurya has a series of lessons on Continuous Innovation Mindsets. (more)

Ash Maurya on Lean Startup Coaching Meta-Skills: Welcome to Coaching Lean Meta-skills (more)

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Functional Programming is when functions, not objects or procedures, are the fundamental building blocks of a program. (more)

product management tool with emphasis on north-star metric and other metrics https://doubleloop.app/ aka DoubleLoop.app

Twilio (IPO 2016), Slack.com (IPO 2019, acquired 2020), Asana (IPO 2020), and Atlassian (IPO 2015) all lose money? (more)

Miro is laying off 275. After laying off 119 last year. (more)

first part of s-curve of growth

Ash Maurya tool for defining your startup roadmap based on a handful of meaninful traction metrics (AARRR). https://www.leanfoundry.com/tools/traction-roadmap

Ash Maurya term