Cedric Chin: Putting the Jobs to be Done Interview to Practice. Much has already been written about the interview method, but I thought it would be useful to describe what we’ve learnt from doing it. This includes things that we struggled with, things we found oddly tricky, and things that we wished someone had told us earlier. (more)

Part of Customer Development process, interviewing people in candidate Market Segment-s to confirm your understanding of key customer problems. (more)

Ash Maurya book on Lean Startup process. 3rd edition (2022) ISBN:1098108779 https://www.leanfoundry.com/books/running-lean (more)

Marketing term from Crossing The Chasm (more)

Ash Maurya: Position Against Your True Competition to Win the Customer. (more)

Positioning book by April Dunford ISBN:1999023005 https://www.aprildunford.com/obviously-awesome (more)

Will you (the Founder) be happy serving your warm-niche/ideal-customer for years and years? (more)

An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting 'delimitation', 'distinction', and 'definition') is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.[1] Aphorisms are often handed down by tradition from generation to generation. The concept is generally distinct from those of an adage, brocard, chiasmus, epigram, maxim (legal or philosophical), principle, proverb, and saying; although some of these concepts could be construed as types of aphorism. Often aphorisms are distinguished from other short sayings by the need for interpretation to make sense of them. In A Theory of the Aphorism, Andrew Hui defined an aphorism as "a short saying that requires interpretation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphorism (koan?)

Venkatesh Rao: Lands of Lorecraft. In the last couple of years, I’ve become aware of some genuinely fresh management thinking from an emerging cohort of thinkers on the margins of the landscape of traditional institutions. (more)

the status quo competition to your new product; phrase used most by Ash Maurya (more)

aka existing alternatives to your product

Brian Marick: The offloaded brain, part 1: behavior. The theme of this series is that we think too much. We’d be better off if we more often arranged for our environment to push us around. Be thoughtful a few times so you can be thoughtless the rest of the time. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 203 : Fixing Messy Problems. I draw heavily on ideas from Dave Snowden, Donella Meadows, Gareth Morgan, Dana Mackenzie, Judea Pearl, etc. (more)

Images of Organization is a bestseller book by Gareth Morgan, professor of organizational behavior and industrial relations at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, which attempts to unveil organization via a number of metaphors. It was first published in 1986. The book particularly describes the organization metaphorically as (1) machines, (2) organisms, (3) brains, (4) cultures, (5) political systems, (6) psychic prisons, (7) flux and transformation, and (8) instruments of domination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Images_of_Organization

spatial software thinker, https://darkblueheaven.com/ | https://x.com/johnpalmer (more)

see stripe.com

PartyBid is a product that lets groups of people combine their capital and bid on NFT auctions together. (DAO) https://party.mirror.xyz/ https://twitter.com/prtydao (more)

Ben Recht: Cosma Shalizi Is Aware of All Internet Traditions. I’ve been wanting to write a summary of the Cultural AI conference I attended at NYU last week. (more)

a shared pattern of response to a particular situation? - 2004-12-20-GamesTheoryCulture (more)

Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as tales, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging from traditional building styles to handmade toys common to the group. Folklore also includes customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas and weddings, folk dances and initiation rites. Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact. Just as essential as the form, folklore also encompasses the transmission of these artifacts from one region to another or from one generation to the next. Folklore is not something one can typically gain in a formal school curriculum or study in the fine arts. Instead, these traditions are passed along informally from one individual to another either through verbal instruction or demonstration. The academic study of folklore is called folklore studies or folkloristics, and it can be explored at undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. levels.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore (more)