the people who cross silos, regardless of title (more)

Hot take: a lot of "soft skills" in business are necessary only as side-effects of crummy Organization Design: structure, process, culture. Incoherent/lacking Autonomy, Mastery, And Purpose. Are you really rationalizing/rewarding a political (student council) process/culture? See also High Agency, Glue People. (more)

Matt Huebert: When I Sit Down At My Editor, I Feel Relaxed. My environment of work was more often a distraction, rather than help, to the flashes of vision that would enter my mind and wish to exist. The flow state between imagination and concrete representation in the world was constantly interrupted. (more)

Robin Lopes: Startups like Lovable & Cursor leverage their teams as content machines. There’s a quiet social media hack that startups like Lovable and Cursor are using right now they’re turning their 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬. Look at Lovable and Cursor. yes, the founders are visible but the real power move...? They’ve surrounded themselves with operators who also have distribution. Growth. Product. Design. Dev education. Community.... What this creates: - Every hire becomes a media surface - Every post compounds trust - Demand comes from multiple corners of the internet - Distribution isn’t a channel anymore. It’s a 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭. The takeaway: Don’t just build a product. Don’t just build a personal brand. Build a 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬.

Dean Ball on adopters of Claude Opus 4.5: undoubtedly true that opus 4.5 is the 4o of the 130+ iq community. we have already seen opus psychosis. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The $140,000 Question. There was a no good, quite bad article by Michael Green that went viral. (2025-11-23) Green Poverty Line Is A Lie (more)

short-form Non-Fiction (more)

(graph as in data-structure, not as in diagram) 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)

The Best Of Category Pirates 2025. (more)

Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners (learning programming). From Matt Huebert and others. (more)

An amateur who dabbles in a field out of interest rather than as a profession, or possesses a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge, is often referred to as a dilettante.

conversational AI that communicates in natural language with human "user" (more)

John Ohno: The end-game of the voice UI (like that of the chat UI (Conversational Interface)) is the command line interface. So, it’s useful to take cues from currently-existing good CLI UX. (For instance, look at the differences between zsh & command.com, and the trends in the evolution of borne-compatible command shells since 1970.) (voice control) (more)

Potential computer input (VoiceControl), could be Always On You. (more)

Print-to-disk format used by Adobe Acrobat. Sometimes used for EBook publishing. Just horrible, pls use epub. (more)

Group Discussion Live Chat - mainly for team or large groups. For family/friends, see Group Chat. (Bah these 2 pages are a mess, the line is too fuzzy.) (more)

Joe Procopio: The Unlikely Rise Of The Tech Industry Castoffs. Unsexy is the new sexy, and a misfit army of entrepreneurs are building unsexy tech for customers again. (more)

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big. Small Giants takes readers deep inside 14 remarkable companies that have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying goals—like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, and making great contributions to their communities. In exploring these “small giants,” Bo Burlingham shows how every company can benefit by questioning the usual definitions of business success. https://boburlingham.com/other-books/ (more)

operating outside traditional/big institutions - Micro-SaaS/Micro-ISV, Micropreneur, One-Man Show, Two-Pizza Company, SmallCo, Neo-Victorian, Arts And Crafts, Co-op, SmallWorld/SmallWeb, SlowWorld (?), Bespoke, Boutique, Small Batch ((2009-07-31) Linderman Boutique Biz Rename), Situated Software, Life-Style Company, NanoCorp, Auteur Theory, Grunt-Fund, Co-op, Bootstrapping (more)

Erik Hoel: Why do most popular science books suck? In the science section of the average bookstore rests a bunch of overhyped and uninteresting books. There are a slim number that are original and interesting—they’re there, but they’re rare (more)