When something is overdone, typically because of weird incentives.

Venkatesh Rao on his Iron Man-inspired Schlep Asset Puzzle Insight Package Aesthetic (SAPIPA) FrameWork: Understanding the interaction of these 3+3 input and output elements can make a big difference to how you attack complex problems (Problem Solving, Grand Challenge)... Complex problems contain three sub-problems: schlep, puzzle and package... When you solve complex problems right, you are left with three corresponding intangible things of value: an asset, an insight and an aesthetic, which make the solutions both durable and generative (the solutions gradually and intelligently expand to occupy bigger problem spaces, realizing the potential of the original specific solution)... My definition of a good solution to a complex problem is one that solves the immediate problem, is built to last and generates more potential than it uses. The more I think about complex problems, the more I get convinced that the built to last part is critical. Almost all failures are caused by not aiming for durability... Good solutions have three parts, an asset that is the fruit of the Schlep Work, an insight that is at the heart of how the puzzle is solved (which, in the best cases, will apply to a bigger class of similar puzzles that can be solved with sufficient imagination), and an aesthetic that determines how the solution is put together into a package. (more)

android app for connecting devices (mac to android, android-to-android, etc.)

Taylor Pearson on How Entrepreneurs Figure Out What They Want: Effectual Reasoning (which he later re-framed as Effective Entrepreneur) (more)

Is there any fiction today that is also heroic (hero's journey in service of the Transcendentals, not swords) and instructional? Triangulating among (more)

Ray Kurzweil novel: Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine ISBN:1614756392 https://www.danielleworld.com/ (more)

2nd-biggest player in a market - who I often choose to buy from: Android, ebooks from GooglePlay, music (CDs, then mp3s, then streaming music) from Amazon..... (more)

Google's app-store and content-selling-app - Google Books, etc.

Music streaming service from Amazon. What I like about it (more)

Restaurant ordering/delivery service/network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grubhub (more)

Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) is a family of psychological research methods for uncovering and representing what people know and how they think. CTA extends traditional task analysis to tap into the mental processes that underlie observable behavior, and reveal the cognitive skills and strategies needed to effectively tackle challenging situations. https://www.globalcognition.org/cognitive-task-analysis/ cf tacit knowledge

A blipvert is a very brief television advertisement, lasting one second.[1] The word is a portmanteau of blip, a brief sound, and advertisement.[2] The term and concept were used in the 1985 film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future and in Blipverts, the first episode of the 1987 science fiction television show Max Headroom. In the film and TV show, "blipverts" were new high-speed, concentrated, high-intensity television commercials lasting about three seconds. Their purpose was to prevent the channel-switching that may occur during standard-length commercials.[3] They were invented as a MacGuffin to drive the plot. Alas, they caused some viewers' head to explode. (more)

Email Service Provider - company that you send email through for improved deliverability (more)

NYC Public School (High School) with high admissions requirements. (Educating Kids In Nyc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_High_Schools_of_New_York_City (more)

John Francis Welch Jr. (November 19, 1935 – March 1, 2020) was an American business executive, chemical engineer, and writer. He was Chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE) between 1981 and 2001. When Welch retired from GE, he received a severance payment of $417 million, the largest such payment in business history up to that point.[1] In 2006, Welch's net worth was estimated at $720 million... During the early 1980s he was dubbed "Neutron Jack" (in reference to the neutron bomb) for eliminating employees while leaving buildings intact.[17] In Jack: Straight from the Gut, Welch stated GE had 411,000 employees at the end of 1980, and 299,000 at the end of 1985. Of the 112,000 who left the payroll, 37,000 were in businesses which GE sold off, and 81,000 were reduced in continuing businesses. In return, GE had tremendously increased its market capitalization. Welch reduced basic research, and closed or sold off under-performing businesses... Upon his retirement from GE, Welch had stated that his effectiveness as its CEO for two decades would be measured by the company's performance for a comparable period under his successors. Welch had grown GE to over $450 billion in market capitalization, of which about 40% was in financial services. Twenty years later, the company's market capitalization was only $200 billion, and Welch refused to discuss its decline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch

Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Virginia, a seat he has held since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Warner served as the 69th governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. He is vice chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Warner is the honorary chairman of Forward Together PAC. Apart from politics, he is known for his involvement in telecommunications-related venture capital during the 1980s; he founded the firm Columbia Capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Warner

The RESTRICT Act (S. 686) is a proposed legislation that was first introduced in the United States Senate on March 7, 2023. Introduced by Senator Mark Warner, the Act proposes that the Secretary of Commerce be given the power to review business transactions involving certain information and communications technologies products or services when they are connected to a "foreign adversary" of the United States, and pose an "undue and unacceptable risk" to the national security of the United States or its citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RESTRICT_Act

Zvi Mowshowitz: Given the Restrict Act, Don't Ban TikTok. The Restrict Act is a no good very bad bill, and having seen the bill I realize that I was wrong to support banning TikTok. (more)

Ash Maurya 2023 replacement of the MVP: (2023-05-26) Maurya Moving Beyond MVP

Adam Wiggins/Ink and Switch: Tablet showdown. Desktop computers are the gold standard for pro computing. Yet many of classic abstractions such as hierarchical filesystems, overlapping windows, cut-and-paste, cursors/focus, and shortcut keys are a poor fit for a tablet. (more)