John Cutler TBM 30/52: Why Don’t We Have a Strategy? A product leader recently told me: "The system is not built for me to think. The system is built for me to be reactionary." Why? The theory goes that ideas are cheap, and execution is everything. (more)

Venkatesh Rao uses the term Positioning for 7 dimensions of business Flow State (Business Strategy). If the S-Curve-s are clustered close together in time, you get one big Aha! Otherwise you get a series of smaller Ahas! All 7 must be switched on. Otherwise you’ll get a change in emotion and energy, but not a true business positioning. The characteristic sign is that you get a frenzied, high-anxiety, manic energy tempo instead of a harmonious, vigorous and steady tempo. I call the former the “fire alarm” situation, and it will collapse if it isn’t corrected. (more)

Venkatesh Rao loves Walter Kiechel's Lords Of Strategy Business Book about the history of the Business Strategy Consulting industry. With those four players on the stage: BCG, the idea company, Bain, the all-the-way-to-execution cult, McKinsey the behemoth commoditizer, and Michael Porter the intellectual heavyweight, the strategy revolution was underway... There is a deep conceptual problem with Porter’s work, and the entire main line of development of strategy as a discipline, that makes it deeply suspect: the fact that people are missing.

key Start Up success-requirement from Marc Andreessen - getting the right Fit between product and Market Segment - 2007-07-27-AndreessenMarketIsKeyForStartup - establishes viability/scalability of your Business Model? (more)

Mike Morris wiki engine project

about mikro2nd (more)

Most individual-creator content subscriptions are too expensive, given that most are essentially infotainment (conversely, how many can really claim to be compelling?). (more)

Mike Morris: Introducing Wikid: A(nother) Wiki System. I’m writing a wiki system (wiki engine). Have I lost my mind? Why, when there are already so many wiki platforms languishing out there…? (more)

Mike Morris: Wikid Update- Walking Skeleton 2.0. The Next Big Thing I decided on (see my previous project update was to implement visible backlinks. (more)

Mike Morris: Into the Kingdom of Bouncy Castle; Here Be Dragons. After a bit of downtime over the holiday season, it's back to work on the Wikid Project. (more)

Mike Morris: Thoughts on "Extending Tools for Thought". a meetup of the ToolsForThoughtRocks crowd in which they had Howard Rheingold as a guest. "Extending Tools for Thought". Was well worth the time in that it triggered some Interesting Thoughts (more)

Mike Morris on a Tools for Thought Research Community. Wandering through my personal notes and collected RSS feeds, I find myself rereading Thesephist's Research Community post. ((2021-11-27) Lee Towards A Research Community For Better Thinking Tools) (more)

Mike Morris: Cognition Enhancing Technologies. I’m working with a non-profit org, We Think Code, that teaches software development skills (not just programming!) to people new-to-programming who likely might not otherwise have access to such opportunity. (learning programming) (more)

Mike Morris: Wikid Update - The Skeleton is Walking. Finally got around to a manual test of WikidProject and... it works! My god, it actually works! (more)

Jon Udell: Learning While Coding: How LLMs Teach You Implicitly. I’ve always been a hands-on learner, especially when it comes to learning how to use — and create — software. In Radical just-in-time learning, I recalled my favorite scene in The Matrix. (2023-06-14-UdellRadicalJustInTimeLearning) (more)

Have this half-rememberance stuck in my head, maybe someone else can clue me in. Some folks got into some Game Playing of taking turns pretending to be an Alien Intelligence and answering deep questions from people. I know this was a scene in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrodingers Cat Trilogy. I think that's where my Annoying Quote it's always this way on primitive planets: the early stages of Evolution are never pretty comes from. I have this recollection that there was actually a radio show based on this theme at some point. I can't remember whether who was involved: Robert Anton Wilson, Tim Leary, maybe Paul Krassner? (more)

DJ, record producer (more)

In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make an off-beat tune or piece of music. More simply, syncopation is a general term for a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm: a placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur.[1] Syncopation is used in many musical styles, and is fundamental in styles such as ragtime, jazz, jump blues, funk, reggae, Rap Music, progressive electronic dance music, progressive rock, progressive metal, breakbeat, drum'n'bass, samba, baião, ska, and dubstep. "All dance music makes use of syncopation and it's often a vital element that helps tie the whole track together".[2] In the form of a back beat, syncopation is used in virtually all contemporary popular music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncopation (more)

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop[1][2] or Rap Music,[2][3][4] is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[2] It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing.[5][6][7] Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing. While often used to refer to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture.[8][9] The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music,[2][10] though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, and scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.[11][12] Hip hop as music and culture formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African American youth residing in the Bronx.[13] At block parties DJs played percussive breaks of popular songs using two turntables to extend the breaks.[clarification needed] Hip hop's early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum-machines became widely available and affordable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music

Acid jazz (also known as club jazz, psychedelic jazz, or groove jazz) is a music genre that combines elements of funk, soul, and hip hop, as well as jazz and disco.[1][2] Acid jazz originated in clubs in London during the 1980s with the rare groove movement and spread to the United States, Japan, Eastern Europe, and Brazil. Acts included The Brand New Heavies, D'Influence, Incognito, Us3, and Jamiroquai from the UK and Buckshot LeFonque and Digable Planets from the U.S. The rise of electronic club music in the middle to late 1990s led to a decline in interest, and in the twenty-first century, the movement became indistinct as a genre. Many acts that might have been defined as acid jazz are seen as jazz-funk, neo soul, or jazz rap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz (more)