Elizabeth Ayer: Enshittification as Overproduction in Software. I have a few things to say about this moment of mass enshittification: most of what we’re seeing is incompetence, not malice. (Any sufficiently advanced ClueLessness is indistinguishable from Malice. But I think this article may be stretching the definition/context of enshittification.) (more)

keeping things running, fighting entropy to maintain the status quo

give up; one path from the Godin Dip

stage of life-cycle in an organism or business or product where growth slows/stops (more)

My vision coming from 2011-04-27-OptimisticNearFutureVision... (more)

A cash cow is product or service that generates significant revenue over a long period of time for the company that sells it. Revenue “milked” from cash cows is often used to subsidise less profitable parts (portfolio) of a business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_cow (more)

curve with growth followed by levelling off (more)

Went to a Product Management MeetUp about Complexity in the Product Portfolio (Product Management) (more)

aka Boston Consulting Group (more)

John Cutler: TBM 234: Maintenance, KTLO, and BAU. I've always been bothered by how teams use words and phrases like maintenance, keeping the lights on (KTLO), and business as usual. I get what they mean, but there always seems to be a stigma around this work. (more)

Casey Winters: Why Consumer Subscription (B2C SaaS) Is So Hard, and What to Do About It. Shortly after I got into tech, investors started to fall in love with subscription business models, mostly on the B2B side. (more)

Creator of MetaFilter. (more)

Hive Mind, or something else? Intelligence Increase? (more)

a Model, typically based on Bottom-Up Emergence from the behavior of individual actors. (more)

messiness (more)

The theme of the Complexity International Jounal is the field of complex systems, the generation of complex behaviour from the interaction of multiple parallel processes. (more)

A Systems Thinking tool. Appears in some Jerry Weinberg books. Places emphasis on finding Loops. (more)

Erik Hoel: From AI to abortion, the scientific failure to understand consciousness harms the nation. This nation of mine is bulging at the edges, straining to contain all its different and incompatible worldviews. I am unsure that, in the last decades of living memory, there have ever been such fundamental differences between how people want to live their life (more)

In the philosophy of mind, panpsychism (/pænˈsaɪkɪzəm/) is the view that the mind or a mindlike aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality.[1] It is also described as a theory that "the mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe."[2] It is one of the oldest philosophical theories, and has been ascribed to philosophers including Thales, Plato, Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, William James,[3] Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, and Galen Strawson.[1] In the 19th century, panpsychism was the default philosophy of mind in Western thought, but it saw a decline in the mid-20th century with the rise of logical positivism.[3][4] Recent interest in the hard problem of consciousness and developments in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and quantum physics have revived interest in panpsychism in the 21st century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism

the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it (more)