The illusion of control is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control events; for example, it occurs when someone feels a sense of control over outcomes that they demonstrably do not influence.[1] The effect was named by psychologist Ellen Langer and has been replicated in many different contexts.[2] It is thought to influence gambling behavior and belief in the paranormal.[3] Along with illusory superiority and optimism bias, the illusion of control is one of the positive illusions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control (all models are wrong, but some are useful) (more)

Summary: create multiple short consistent documents of your current business strategy/product strategy, to help people throughout the organization make decisions, generate ideas, etc. (more)

Empowered Product Team - Martin Cagan frame. (more)

A team (esp product team) that includes people performing all the functions necessary to deliver an increment. Also called empowered product team. (more)

group that does Team Work together on Product Development (ideally an empowered product team doing Agile Product Development) or D And D (more)

Jeff Gothelf: (Management) Ego killed the empowered product team. By now you’ve most certainly read Martin Cagan’s article on Product teams vs Feature Teams. ((2019-08-29) Cagan Product Vs Feature Teams) (more)

I created A Diagram of Effects of the AntiPatterns in a Product/Dev Team in Miro. Making agile product development unlikely. (more)

model/structure of multiple metrics for your organization; see esp Schmidt Backlinks below, incl (2023-11-16) Schmidt Input Metrics Are So Hard That Most Product Teams Give Up (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Input metrics are so hard that most product teams give up. Teams can’t usually launch a product or marketing update and immediately see the business impact. They need input metrics to measure the results of their efforts. (more)

Practice of driving a Product Team via the Feedback of a single metric. (more)

Project-oriented Roadmaps are counter-productive for Software Product Teams. (more)

The Croquet Project is an international effort to promote the continued development of Croquet, an open source software platform, a network Operating System, for developing and delivering deeply collaborative multi-user online applications (Collaboration Ware). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project https://croquet.io/ (more)

Gordon Brander concept-note-taking-app, called just "subconscious" (used to be "Mem"). Track his thinking via https://subconscious.substack.com/ and https://github.com/gordonbrander/subtext (more)

Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that provides a range of internet services, including content delivery network (CDN) services, cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, wide area network services, reverse proxies, Domain Name Service, ICANN-accredited[3] and domain registration.[4][5][6] Cloudflare's headquarters are in San Francisco, California.[4] According to W3Techs, Cloudflare is used by around 19.3% of all websites on the Internet for its web security services, as of January 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare (more)

Varnish was written from the ground up to be a high performance caching reverse proxy. (Caching Proxy Server). Varnish was designed as an HTTP accelerator. Varnish is focused exclusively on HTTP, unlike other proxy servers that often support FTP, SMTP, and other network protocols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software) open-source (more)

PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents, multiplayer and local-first apps, games and websites... It works well with popular collaboration frameworks and libraries. Y.js, Automerge, Replicache, XState, tldraw, TinyBase, they all Just Work. PartyKit integrates with your current setup. Plays nicely with Vercel, Netlify, AWS, Cloudflare, fly.io, or wherever you host your app. No big rewrite needed. Standards-based: WebSockets, Fetch, Request-Response, Wasm. https://www.partykit.io/ (more)

a written-document story-telling structure different from, say, the Amazon Meeting Memo or PR/FAQ (or a Pattern). “A good story structure contains a Situation, a Complication, a Question and an Answer: SCQA.” (more)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Remote Controlled plane, drone, UAS (more)

Anduril Industries, Inc. is an American defense technology company that specializes in autonomous systems. It was cofounded in 2017 by inventor and entrepreneur Palmer Luckey and others.[3][4] Anduril aims to sell to the U.S. Department of Defense, including artificial intelligence and robotics. Anduril's major products include unmanned aerial systems (UAS) & counter-UAS (CUAS), semi-portable autonomous surveillance systems, and networked command and control software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries

Garrett Petersen tweets: If school subjects (curriculum) aren't going to be actually useful, we might as well let the kids spend a decade playing cognitively demanding strategy video games. (more)