Bradley Kent Garlinghouse (born February 4, 1971) is the CEO of financial technology company Ripple Labs. He previously was the CEO and chairman of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt). Before Hightail, he worked at AOL and Yahoo! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Garlinghouse (more)

Malcolm Gladwell claims that online-based activism doesn't Change The World. (more)

The area is not recognized internationally as part of any sovereign country but is claimed by the Palestinian National Authority as part of the Palestinian territories. Since the June 2007 battle of Gaza, actual control of the area is in the hands of the Hamas de facto government. (more)

An Egan Pattern Language. As you might have already gleaned, this substack explores the vast possibilities that Kieran Egan’s approach to education opens up. Alas, he never laid out a specific curriculum. (more)

Reggio Emilia ([ˈreddʒo eˈmiːlja], also [ˈrɛddʒo]; Emilian: Rèz, Latin: Regium Lepidi) is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants[1] and is the main comune (municipality) of the Province of Reggio Emilia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggio_Emilia (more)

Logical Thinking Process : A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving book/process from William Dettmer ISBN:0873897234 (2007), updating/refining Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints process (see ToC Thinking Processes). (more)

There are 3 Games of Product Management, and each of these has variations based on the context. (more)

The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty or the poverty paradox, is the phenomenon of countries with an abundance of natural resources (such as fossil fuels and certain minerals) having less economic growth, less democracy, or worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources.[1] There are many theories and much academic debate about the reasons for and exceptions to the adverse outcomes. Most experts believe the resource curse is not universal or inevitable but affects certain types of countries or regions under certain conditions... In 1993 Richard Auty first used the term resource curse to describe how countries rich in mineral resources were unable to use that wealth to boost their economies and how, counter-intuitively, these countries had lower economic growth than countries without an abundance of natural resources... Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who developed selectorate theory, explains that when an autocratic country has lots of natural resources, the ruler's optimal strategy for political survival is to use that revenue to buy the loyalty of critical support groups and oppress the rest of the population by denying them civil liberties and underfunding education and infrastructure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

a rationalization for bad behavior (more)

Doctor's Orders, by Jason Blakely. A piece that's not entirely wrong, but mostly argued in bad-faith. (more)

periodic bug, edible (see eating cicadas)

John Allspaw: What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause.’ In recent years, the understanding that failure in complex systems requires multiple contributors coming together to produce these surprising events that we call incidents has gained traction. (more)

Fred Hebert: Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops. Instead I decided to follow my gut feeling and go with what I think really explains my perspective and the approach I bring with me to work and even my life in general (more)

Ash Maurya: Making happy customers is the universal job of every business. Making happy customers is NOT the same thing as making customers happy. The work of making happy customers happens in a customer factory. (more)

‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living. ...the Eroski retail chain is part of Mondragon Corporation, the largest industrial co-op in the world. As a fully signed-up member, Fernández co-owns part of the supermarket chain that also employs her. (Mondragon Cooperatives) (more)

Similar to MetaCognition (but with more Iteration, Deliberate Practice) and Critical Thinking (but with more Self Awareness). (more)

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This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (17k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)

My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Evolution by increasing Freedom, Agency, and Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (SmallWorld) via D And D of Thinking Tools (software and Games To Play).

See Intro Page for space-related goals, status, etc.; or Wiki Node for more terse summary info.

Beware the War On The Net!

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Current:

My Coding for fun.

Past:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billseitz/

Agile Product Development, Product Management from MVP to Product-Market Fit, Adding Product To Your Startup Team, Agility, Context, and Team Agency, (2022-10-12) Accidental Learnings of a Journeyman Product Manager

My Coding

Big Levers, Theory of Change, Change the World, (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future; Network Enlightenment, Optimistic Near Future Vision; Huge Invention; Alternatives To A College Degree; Credit Crisis 2008; Economic Transition; Network Economy; Making A Living; Varieties Of Info Technology Jobs; Generative Schooling; Product Oriented Unschooling; Reality Hacker; A 20th Century Economic Theory

FluxGarden; Network Enlightenment Ecosystem; ThinkingTools Interaction as Medium; Hypermedia Pattern Language; Everyone Needs Their Own ThinkingSpace; Digital Garden; Virtual ThinkingSpace; Thinking Tools Companies; Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts; My CollaborationWare History; Wiki Proliferation; Portal Collaboration Roadmap; Wiki For GroupWare, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, Email Discussion Beside Wiki, Wiki For CollaborationWare, Collaboration Roadmap; Sister Sites; Wiki Hack

Personal Cloud; 2018-11-29-NextOpenInfrastructure, 2018-11-15-BooksVsTweets; Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock

Social Warrens; Culture War; 2017-02-15-MindmapCultureWarSocialMediaEconomy; Cultural Pluralism

Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Small Tribe, SimplestThing, Becoming A Reality Hacker, Less-Bullshit Living, The Craft; Games To Play; Evolution, Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems

Digital Therapeutics, (2021-05-26) Pondering a Mental Health space, CoachBot; Inside-Out Markov Chain

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