computer bigger than a Mobile, smaller than a LapTop (more)

Martin Cagan on Dual-Track Agile. Remember that our higher order objective is to validate our ideas the fastest, cheapest way possible. Actually building and launching a product idea is generally the slowest, most expensive way to validate the idea. (more)

John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons;[nb 1] October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Associated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation. He invented the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant,[1] and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets... After a brief involvement with Marxism in 1939, Parsons converted to Thelema, the English occultist Aleister Crowley's new religious movement. In 1941, with his first wife Helen Northrup, Parsons joined the Agape Lodge, the Californian branch of the Thelemite Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). At Crowley's bidding, he replaced Wilfred Talbot Smith as its leader in 1942 and ran the Lodge from his mansion on Orange Grove Avenue. Parsons was expelled from JPL and Aerojet in 1944 due to the Lodge's infamous reputation and his hazardous workplace conduct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whiteside_Parsons (more)

aka Mighty Networks: to usher in a new era of creative business built on community. Mighty Networks serves “creators with a purpose” selling experiences, relationships, and expertise to their members via community, content, online courses, and subscription commerce–all offered in one place under the creator’s brand.

Support Group design by Napoleon Hill. (more)

Reading a bunch of Book Publishing-related stuff this morning, the (Non-Fiction) book smells awfully dead to me. The publishing process adds some value to the content (tightening up Focus, language, etc.), but (more)

Announcing Gatsby’s $15M Series A Funding Round. Gatsby is a free and open-source web framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps (more)

aka Getting Started

FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application from Claris International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a graphical user interface (GUI) and security features, allowing users to modify the database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms. FileMaker evolved from a DOS application, but was then developed primarily for the Apple Macintosh and released in April 1985. It was succeeded by FileMaker Pro in 1990. Since 1992 it has been available for Microsoft Windows and for the classic Mac OS and macOS, and can be used in a cross-platform environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileMaker_Pro

CMS where the front-end is built/delivered by a separate app.

real-time event using multiple modes of communication (phone Conference Call, Live Chat, and Wiki, plus maybe others...) (more)

At Postlight. (more)

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The best live chat app you never knew you wanted is here. Chat rooms have since fallen out of favor, thanks to the popularity of other text-based chat devices and services such as iMessage and Twitter. But a new web-based application from digital product studio Postlight, called Yap, is hoping to restore chat rooms to their humble glory. (more)

An introduction to the JAMstack: the architecture of the modern web. (more)

Gatsby Cloud and Its Impact on the Headless CMS Space. Companies are finding, however, that headless comes with its own set of challenges that requires a slew of technologies to solve. That’s why Gatsby Cloud seems to be a turning point for the headless space. (more)

Delivering Modern Website Experiences: The Journey to a Content Mesh. Over time, the feature landscape broadened — key areas like search, analytics, payments, personalization, and e-commerce emerged. In each category, specialized tools improved rapidly, while the quality of monolithic enterprise CMS applications like Adobe Experience Manager and Sitecore has stayed roughly the same. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Semicolon-Shaped People. Speaking of teaching and deep projects, let's talk about deep work. The phrase is the title of a book by Cal Newport who, not coincidentally, has built a career out of sincerely and effectively steelmanning what I've often disparaged as "credentialism" in my writing (more)

Making it easier to start with Gatsby Cloud for free. Connecting with a GitHub organization is the most confusing step, for several reasons. First of all, it’s not obvious in the product that we only offer GitHub integrations at this time (more)

2002 feature of Radio Userland. A cross between Instant Messaging and OutLining. A new form of Collaboration Ware. aka Instant Outliner (more)