Martina Lauchengco: Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products (more)

Martin Cagan partner

At AEP the team built a nice little lite-CMS to allow staff to create/update chunks of text that would support form tooltips, user-help pages, and an FAQ. (more)

"10,000 hours of practice" rule from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers book about Talent. http://gladwell.com/outliers/the-10000-hour-rule/ (more)

Gordon Brander: LLMs and information post-scarcity. First the internet reduced the marginal cost of distributing content to zero. Now AI is reducing the marginal cost of producing content to zero. (more)

"every ThinkingTool is 80% used as a Not-Thinking Tool" - cf theater

Some writing practices that are more applicable to an organizational (company, etc) context than an individual/personal.... a subtype of collaborationware (more)

Leveraged Buy Out (more)

The principal–agent problem refers to the conflict in interests and priorities that arises when one person or entity (the "agent") takes actions on behalf of another person or entity (the "principal").[1] The problem worsens when there is a greater discrepancy of interests and information between the principal and agent, as well as when the principal lacks the means to punish the agent.[2] The deviation from the principal's interest by the agent is called "agency costs". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem (cf game theory). A big driver of the LBO was the belief that management, being non-shareholders, has this failure.

In professional wrestling, kayfabe (/ˈkeɪfeɪb/) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged. The term kayfabe has evolved to also become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the direct or indirect presence of the general public.[1] Kayfabe, in the United States, is often seen as the suspension of disbelief that is used to create the non-wrestling aspects of promotions, such as feuds, angles, and gimmicks in a manner similar to other forms of fictional entertainment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

Live Performance en-actment (Drama, Comedy, Tragedy, etc.). Also: Empty Gesture, as in Security Theater (signalling, ritual, Cargo Cult, illusion of control). https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Abillseitz%20*theater&src=typed_query&f=live. Also: Bullshit. (more)

term from Semiotics/PostModernism (more)

small-form-factor PC (x86) (more)

scary variation of The Flu, spreading through animals 2020-2024.... (more)

see Avian Flu

Influenza A virus (IAV) is a pathogen that causes the flu in birds and some mammals, including humans.[1] It is an RNA virus whose subtypes have been isolated from wild birds. Occasionally, it is transmitted from wild to domestic birds, and this may cause severe disease, outbreaks, or human influenza pandemics... A filtered and purified influenza A vaccine for humans has been developed and many countries have stockpiled it to allow a quick administration to the population in the event of an avian influenza pandemic. In 2011, researchers reported the discovery of an antibody effective against all types of the influenza A virus... The annually updated, trivalent flu vaccine consists of hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein components from influenza H3N2, H1N1, and B influenza viruses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus

In virology, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (A/H1N1) is a subtype of influenza A virus. Major outbreaks of H1N1 strains in humans include the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, the 1977 Russian flu pandemic and the 2009 swine flu pandemic... Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of all influenza-like illness and a small fraction of all seasonal influenza, for instance in 2004–2005.[2] Other strains of H1N1 are endemic in pigs (swine influenza) and in birds (avian influenza). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1

People more crazy than the Tea Party. Stasist people. Fascist, authoritarian, Deplorables, alt-right, Tea Party, nazi, MAGA, Revanchist, Trump Voters.... (more)

various meaning/implications (more)

Anton Troynikov: Rewilding the Web. The web is a much duller place now than it was 20 years ago. A large part of the reason is that the early web was much more fragmented. (more)