David R. MacIver: Initial Notes Towards a Manifesto. What I'm about is this: Dear humanity, we are fucking this up, and it's annoying me and I'm embarrassed to be a part of it. (more)
David R. MacIver: Cleaning up the fnords in your environment. Have you ever used a new program or system and found it to be obnoxiously buggy, but then after a while you didn’t notice the bugs anymore? If so, then congratulations: you have been trained by the computer to avoid some of its problems (more)
Journaling process created by Julia Cameron. https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/ Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. (more)
A HealthCare issue? (more)
Anton Troynikov: The Purpose of Technology is Human Flourishing. The purpose of technological progress is embedded deeply in the human spirit and is born of the same kiln as the purpose of art: Creation of something that has never before existed; learn things about the world nobody has ever known before. (more)
Anton Troynikov: The Stakes. Only the fragile promise of continued technological progress represents an escape from the horrific, deadly, Malthusian prison that was the past. These are The Stakes. (more)
David R. MacIver: The Habit Cycle. I think there’s an explore/exploit trade off. Early on in a habit you’re in explore mode, so it’s reasonable to value the habit based on how good it could be, but once you’re in exploit mode you’re valuing it based on how good it actually is. (more)
Anton Troynikov: Reckoning. In the midst of the ongoing "techlash", we as a culture are in danger of rejecting (rightly) not only the grey-goo padded wall aesthetic that the mature tech platforms have imposed, but (wrongly) the idea of technical progress itself. (more)
Use your Digital Garden's Automatic Linking to turn "meaningful-to-you" phrases into links, then create pages for those phrases. (more)
as your write a page, each key phrase (phrase that seems key to you at that time) has the potential to spin off a new page. (more)
longer-term Vo-Tech Job Training that includes both skills and Value-s (Craftsmanship): see Master And Apprentices (more)
Martin Cagan on Product Strategy - Overview. how do we decide which problems they (Product Teams) should solve? Answering that question is what product strategy is all about. (more)
Clarke Ching book: Bottleneck Rules ISBN:1983022691 (my copy is kindle ASIN:B07DCFR7B4) (more)
Coronavirus getting us antsy, resorting to spending money on exercise equipment. (more)
One big piece of Physical Fitness (more)
Robert Munro: PR-FAQs for Product Documents — Everything Product Managers Need to Know. (See Amazon Meeting Memo) (more)
manifesto written by John Perry Barlow in 1996. (more)
John Robb: Charlottesville (Right-Wing) and Malicious Social Disruption (more)
This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k 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!
Current:
- head of product for an early-stage boot-strapped company
- founder FluxGarden for Digital Garden hosting
- wrote Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems ASIN:B00HHJA5JS
My Coding for fun.
Past:
- Director Product Managment, NCSA Sports
- CTO/Product Manager at a series of startups: MedScape, then Axiom Legal, then Living Independently, then DailyLit, then AEP...
- founded Family Financial Future, personal-financial-planning nagware for parents
- consulting
- founded Teamflux.com, a hosting service for wiki-based collaboration spaces.
- founded Wikilogs.com, a hosting service for WikiLog-s (wiki-based weblogs).
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
TryingAI, LLM/GenAI, Claude Code
Hero's Journey, Transformation, CategoryPirates
Oligarchy; 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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