Martin Cagan: Transformation Fail. We hope to give you a better understanding of why so many transformations fail, but also a deeper understanding of what is truly necessary to succeed. See prev (2022-05-31) Cagan Moore Transformation Defined. (more)

Martin Cagan: Alternatives To Product Leaders. In this article, I wanted to talk about alternatives to covering the product leader’s responsibilities. See prev (2023-11-28) Cagan Alternatives To Product Managers. (more)

Matrix (sometimes stylized as [matrix][disputed – discuss]) is an open standard and communication protocol for real-time communication. It aims to make real-time communication work seamlessly between different service providers, in the way that standard SMTP email currently does for store-and-forward email service, by allowing users with accounts at one communications service provider to communicate with users of a different service provider via online chat, voice over IP, and videotelephony. It therefore serves a similar purpose to protocols like XMPP, but is not based on any existing communication protocol. From a technical perspective, it is an application layer communication protocol for federated real-time communication. It provides HTTP APIs and open source reference implementations for securely distributing and persisting messages in JSON format over an open federation of servers.[2][3] It can integrate with standard web services via WebRTC, facilitating browser-to-browser applications... Synapse is the reference implementation of a Matrix home server, written in Python. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol) It's reference client app is Element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_(software) (more)

a movie; also matrix management; also a mathematic object; also a chat protocol Matrix.org (more)

April Dunford: When Product Market Fit Does Not Equal Growth. (Conference: SaaStock 2019.) Fundamentally, as startups, we all want to grow, so we’re all looking for a pathway to scalable, repeatable sales. But at the same time, we know that scaling too soon doesn’t work. In fact, sometimes it can be downright dangerous. (more)

writer (pseudonym for Jason Pargin) of articles, Zoey Ashe series, John Dies at the End series... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wong_(writer) https://www.johndiesattheend.com/ https://www.cracked.com/members/David%20Wong/#columns https://twitter.com/JohnDiesattheEn (more)

David Wong: Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick ISBN:1250195799 (Zoey Ashe-2) (more)

David Wong: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits ISBN:1250097754 (Zoey Ashe-1) (more)

David Wong book series - https://us.macmillan.com/series/zoeyashe

a subset of churn (retention) - % of users who don't use your product in month2. See (2020-07-21) Libin Presents His Model to Answer All Startup Growth Questions. (more)

ability to keep a customer, get more money over time (SaaS renewal, multiple purchases, etc.) - cf true fan - special metric: Bounce rate

Phil Libin presents (video) his Model to Answer All Startup Growth Questions. (cf Growth Hacking, Business Model, System Dynamics). He makes a State Machine which basically tracks the number of users flowing each month among various states (low-value user, high-value user, inactive).... (more)

term I use for pages in my WikiLog and PrivateWiki that are date-stamped, more like a WebLog post than a Wiki page. (more)

Sari Azout: My favorite questions (favorite problem). Most productivity advice is BS, and I say this as the founder of a “personal knowledge management tool” (sublime.app). The only productivity advice that matters is getting clarity on what matters to you. You just feel differently about the world when you know what you care about. (more)

Group Discussion process alternative to Brainstorming. From GoogleVentures DesignSprint team. (more)

Pitch: Lightning Decision Jam, or LDJ as it is commonly called, is the perfect workshop to solve big problems, quickly. It helps you replace all open-ended, unstructured meetings with a clear process. Instead of never-ending discussions and constant back-and-forth, you can use this simple exercise to encourage creativity and foster innovation. It only takes about 40 minutes to run and always leaves you and your team feeling involved, energised, productive - and it gives you tangible, actionable results. https://go.ajsmart.com/ldj (more)

a generative question framing, coming from Design Sprint team... helps pivot from single-Solution to Opportunity identification and multi-idea generation https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/methodology/phase1-understand/hmw-sharing-and-affinity-mapping

Gordon Brander: Questions as tools for thinking (thinking tools). To use a programming analogy, if facts are like data, then questions are like functions. When you ask the question in different contexts, it generates different answers. (more)

Remco Snijders: The (remote) magic of collaborative note-taking. Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone, including yourself, was eagerly taking notes but you failed to see any results of people’s effort? (more)

software thinking tools, incl Digital Garden, ThinkingSpace, NoteTaking, PIM, PKM, ToDoList, Collaboration Ware (more)