folklore, oral lore/storytelling

FoxWizard: The perils of declaring a “purpose”. The Perils of a Neatly-Defined Purpose...When words get in the way of meaning. (more)

Simon Sinek framing/book https://simonsinek.com/books/start-with-why (more)

Jason Cohen: When customers are "willing" to pay. This fresh take on “Willingness-to-Pay” analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to superior strategies for growth that also better the world. (more)

people (Stakeholder) with a strong desire/interest in changing the Status Quo; opponents of the Powers That Be (more)

Book by Geoffrey Moore on Marketing of high-tech products (or you could just consider it to be Business Strategy) - basically dealing with the Technology Adoption Life Cycle. Specifically, how to make your product, which is already accepted by Innovator and Early Adopter buyers, acceptable/attractive to the Pragmatist Consumer. ISBN:0060517123 (more)

a different market for your business to serve, which is very close/similar to the market you serve now

Stuart Kauffman concept. I can begin to imagine making models of how the universe gets more complex, but at the same time I'm hamstrung... How do we get started on something where we could talk about the future of a biosphere? There is a chance that there are general laws. I've thought about four of them. One of them says that autonomous agents have to live the most complex game (complex system) that they can. The second has to do with the construction of EcoSystems. The third has to do with Per Bak's Self Organized criticality in ecosystems. And the fourth concerns the idea of the Adjacent Possible. It just may be the case that biospheres on average keep expanding into the adjacent possible. By doing so they increase the Diversity of what can happen next. It may be that biospheres, as a secular trend, maximize the rate of exploration of the adjacent possible. If they did it too fast, they would destroy their own internal organization, so there may be internal gating mechanisms. This is why I call this an average secular trend, since they explore the Adjacent Possible as fast as they can get away with it. There's a lot of neat science to be done to unpack that, and I'm thinking about it. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman03/kauffman_index.html (more)

Category Pirates: Stop Teaching, Start Transforming: Meet The AI That Turns Your Ideas Into Life Breakthroughs. Fast. Most people think they have a knowledge problem. (more)

CategoryPirates: 10 AI prompts to create a powerful and compelling POV. Most founders, creators, and entrepreneurs think they have a Point of View (POV). (more)

Amy Hoy: Niches Don't Work - but Worldviews Do. Niches are groups of people. Typically a niche defines a group of people by slots and numbers: middle-aged housewives, young men with disposable income and technical skills between the age of 18 and 35. (more)

point of view

Ash Maurya: Extending the Job Story to a Customer Forces Story. Customer Forces Stories are a powerful way of summarizing customer conversations during your search for problem/solution fit. (customer interview) (more)

Ash Maurya: Reorder your Chain of Beliefs with a leaner Lean Canvas. The real challenge isn’t idea generation, but idea validation....at the earliest stages, however, it helps to more narrowly focus attention on just the two outer boxes of the canvas: Customer segment and Problem. (Problem Discovery, Customer Discovery) (more)

for word-game, see MadLibs (more)

slower, more deliberative, and more logical thinking - see Thinking, Fast and Slow

fast, instinctive and emotional - see Thinking, Fast and Slow

final/tiny presentation of John Boyd (more)

typically a lite Issue Tracker (more)

Inside Trello's reinvention as a personal tasks app. What exactly is Trello? Despite counting myself as a heavy-duty power user of the product for well over a decade now, it’s a question I’ve long struggled to answer. (more)