Third Voice was a web annotation browser plug-in launched in 1999 by a company of the same name.[2] The motto associated with the plug-in was:Your Web. Your Voice..[1] The plug-in allowed users to use a sidebar to annotate web sites with note and view notes left by other users.[3] A small red triangle indicated an annotation had been left by another party, these annotations not being held on the website itself but on Third Voice's own servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice

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Martin Cagan: The Power of Visiontypes. I met someone that tried to argue to me that Apple was “an extremely successful company even though they didn’t know how to innovate.” I wasn’t sure I was hearing this correctly. The person went on to point out how in the early days of Apple, Steve Jobs got a demo at Xerox PARC (the renown Palo Alto Research Center) of an early desktop computer with a graphical user interface, and he “just copied that.” (more)

Maggie Appleton on Ambient Co-presence (Ambient Presence). The Context: It's hard to create a subtle sense of shared, synchronous space among multiple people on the web. (more)

Martin Cagan: The Seven Deadly Sins of Product Planning. Product planning is a big topic that many product organizations struggle with. It spans a range of activities including business strategy, product strategy, product roadmaps, portfolio management, opportunity assessments, project planning and tracking, and project oversight (project management). (more)

Ryan Singer: What's the unit of impact? Product Managers often prioritize work by something called "impact." But too often what a PM considered "high impact" doesn't get a green light from leadership. (more)

John Le Carre's Son Penning New George Smiley Spy Novel. John le Carré‘s famous spy character George Smiley hasn’t retired quite yet. Nick Harkaway, le Carré’s son, is writing a new Smiley novel that will publish globally in fall 2024 (more)

"being there/available" in a "chill" way; esp important in a digital collaboration context where you can't see whether your co-worker is heads-down or up/stretching....

Author. Harkaway was born Nicholas Cornwell in Cornwall. He is the son of Valerie Jane Eustace and author David Cornwell, known under his pen name John le Carré (John le Carre). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Harkaway

to do something massive, preferably in a good way (Progress in Evolution) (more)

My Role-based 25-Year Vision Document, from Effective Entrepreneur (more)

Co-creator spy magazine

We build identity, data, and compute solutions for the future of the Internet. https://fission.codes/ (more)

project which became NotebookLM

Martin Cagan/Jon Moore: Changing How You Decide Which Problems To Solve. It is not hard to simply take your existing product roadmaps, and for each feature or project, to determine what the underlying problem to solve is, and what the logical way to measure success would be. But are those really the most important problems to be solved for your customers and for your company? (more)

Martin Cagan on Product Strategy - Focus. The importance of truly “picking your battles” as an organization. (more)

Work done, regardless of outcome. Typically frame/anti-pattern of project management and feature teams.

John Cutler: BeyondOutcomes Over Outputs”. I often meet with teams/individuals that are eager to be more “outcome oriented”). (more)

Steve Blank: Changing your Business Model when it isn't working/growing properly. (more)

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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!

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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

TryingAI, LLM/GenAI, Claude Code

Hero's Journey, Transformation, CategoryPirates

My Coding

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

Book list, Greatest Books

To Write

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