zettelkasten/digital garden writer https://writingslowly.com named Richard.

Andy Matuschak: Exorcising us of the Primer. If you want to make an educational technologist’s eyes sparkle, just mention “The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer”. (more)

WritingSlowly reviews A System for Writing by Bob Doto. Another ‘Zettelkasten primer’ won’t be needed for some time, since this one is direct, concise, thorough and strongly practical. (more)

The Markdown Web. You cannot replace the ’Web; Every Grand Scheme to Reinvent The ’Web just creates unpaid work for developers to boost another company’s profile. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky interviews Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics) about Pattern Breakers: How to find a great startup idea. (more)

Evan Armstrong: A New Book of the Startup Bible. The average business book is a blog post stretched to 250 pages by an underpaid ghost writer who hates what their life has become. That said, there are some that really do matter (more)

Roger Martin: The Five Deadliest Strategy Myths. I started out trying to order them from most to least damaging, but in the end, it is hard to make a case that one is definitively deadlier than the next. I would encourage you to take them collectively as the five myths you should reject and should not let control your life or that of your company. (Business Strategy) (more)

noir author

noir author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett

The Lounge Lizards are a jazz group formed in 1978 by saxophonist John Lurie and his brother, pianist Evan Lurie... Drawing on punk rock and no wave as much as jazz, The Lounge Lizards have since become respected for their creative and distinctive sound... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lounge_Lizards (more)

David Chapman: Upgrade your cargo cult for the win. What does it take for an individual to do innovative intellectual work, such as scientific discovery? Mere mastery of methods is not good enough. What does it take for a community or institution to address a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world effectively? Mission statements, structures, principles, and procedures are not good enough. (more)

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

"an offer you can't refuse" cf elevator pitch

Lean Startup guru https://www.leanfoundry.com/ (more)

A good first (fiction) Robert Anton Wilson book to read. Funny yet mind-bending. ISBN:0440500702 (more)

Martin Cagan framing of agile product development process (actually he says "it's a conceptual model, not a process"); cf Product-Led

Traditional "management", even most software product management, is Industrial-Age Command-and-Control thinking that is net-negative for managing creatives. We need a re-framing of Agile Software Development with a business-building software Product Development mindset. Rapidly Iterative based on FeedBack. A bit post-Lean-Startup. Product-Led, Customer-Driven. (more)

see Product Operating Model

There are 3 Games of Product Management, and each of these has variations based on the context. (more)

Jon Udell pokes Jeff Jarvis, Dan Gillmor, and Dan Froomkin: Can you help us route around the damage and find other ways to reach the undecided and/or apathetic who don't read Big Journalism (Big Media) anyway? (more)