I've read multiple pieces from people recommending Claude Code for non-coding tasks. And it smells like Claude Skills could also add value. But I'm confused as to (more)

Book by Michael Schrage ASIN:B008HRM9X4. This brief book explains how a simple question—who do you want your customers to become?—transforms strategic, marketing, and innovation insights. This question—what I’ll call “The Ask”—successfully provokes managers and entrepreneurs into reimagining, redefining, and redesigning their customers’ future. (more)

Kathy Sierra on motivating your customers (Motivation). What do we want our users to do? And no, we don't get to say, "know more." That's not an action (Actionable, Real World). "Like us more" is not an action. Even my favorite, "KickAss" is not an action. How many people take a course in Design Patterns and then go right back to work and write the same clunky code, reinventing the flat tire? How many customers interact with a WebApp and then... just leave? How many people say they care deeply about a cause, but do nothing beyond bumper-sticker activism? How many people listen to a lecture on the dangers of smoking, but keep smoking? There is nearly always an action (or set of actions) you're hoping users will take, and most of you already know what that is. But we also know that this sometimes involves a change in behavior, something that's extremely hard to do. (more)

Introducing Agent Skills (Claude Skills): Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed. Claude will only access a skill when it's relevant to the task at hand. When used, skills make Claude better at specialized tasks like working with Excel or following your organization's brand guidelines. https://claude.com/blog/skills (more)

Understanding the Most Effective Breathwork Techniques with Dr. Andrew Huberman. Even though cyclic sighing proved to be the most effective breathwork (breathing) technique, all three breathing exercises (others were box breathing and Cyclic hyperventilation) were more effective at improving mood and reducing respiratory rates than mindful meditation. This is thought to be caused by the enhanced sense of control over one’s breath that’s involved with breathwork. (more)

The Vagus Nerve’s Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled. Wellness influencers claim we can ice, tone or zap the vagus nerve to fix almost anything—long COVID, headaches, poor memory, extra pounds, the blues. Much of that hype is unfounded. Still, some research on the vagus nerve is intriguing enough—and promising enough—to draw serious scientific attention. (more)

Geoffrey Litt: Code like a surgeon. A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view! Personally, I’m trying to code like a surgeon. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: Everyone should be using Claude Code more. Ever since my chat with Dan Shipper, I couldn’t stop thinking about his hot take that Claude Code was the most underrated AI tool for non-technical people. A few weeks ago, I finally started playing around with it, and holy sht, we’ve all been sleeping on Claude Code. The key is to forget that it’s called Claude Code and instead think of it as Claude Local or Claude Agent.* (more)

Teresa Torres: Stop Repeating Yourself: Give Claude Code a Memory. (more)

Mark D. Weiser (July 23, 1952 – April 27, 1999) was a computer scientist and chief technology officer (CTO) at Xerox PARC.[1] Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing (UbiComp), a term he coined in 1988.[1] Within Silicon Valley, Weiser was broadly viewed as a visionary and computer pioneer, and his ideas have influenced many of the world's leading computer scientists.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weiser (more)

want to build Random antilibrary/ToRead-Paragraph app (more)

Steve Denning: Why The Pandemic Of Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Still Raging. The last 90 years have seen several missteps on corporate purpose. From the 1930s to the 1970s, corporate managers embraced “stakeholder capitalism.” (See Figure 1.3 above). Executives were expected to optimize among all the stakeholders—customers, staff and partners, shareholders, and society as a whole. The result? Not surprisingly, we saw many “garbage can organizations” emerge. (more)

Michael Green: Part 3: The Pursuit of Happiness. John Locke, the godfather of liberalism, had a very specific trinity of natural rights: "Life, Liberty, and Property." (more)

PHTI published "Unlocking Value in Digital Health Report" - "Challenges And Opportunities To Implementing High-Value Technologies" (more)

creator of "Positive Aging Community" and "Positive Aging Sourcebook" https://www.retirementlivingsourcebook.com/gurney (more)

Age in Place or Find a New Space: a Steve Gurney ProAging session, with Occupational Therapist and author Carol Chiang. (Aging in Place) (more)

DigitalGarden for TeamWork (more)

Greg Borenstein is a game designer, technologist, and teacher. His work explores game design, computer vision, drawing, machine learning, and generative storytelling as media for play and design. He currently works as a technical game designer at Riot Games. Greg is a graduate of the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and the Playful Systems Group at the MIT Media Lab. He was the consulting futurist and a co-writer for the Minority Report TV show and has worked for firms such as Makerbot, Berg London, and Polaroid. https://gregborenstein.com/

In the United States, the term Nifty Fifty was an informal designation for a group of roughly fifty large-cap stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1960s and 1970s that were widely regarded as solid buy and hold growth stocks, or "blue-chip" stocks. These fifty stocks are credited by historians with propelling the bull market of the early 1970s, while their subsequent crash and underperformance through the early 1980s are an example of what may occur following a period during which many investors ignore fundamental stock valuation metrics, to instead make decisions on popular sentiment.[1] Roughly half of the Nifty Fifty have since recovered and are solid performers, although a few are now defunct or otherwise worthless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty (more)

Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney (colloquially Penney's and abbreviated JCP) is an American department store chain with 646 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.[3][4] It is managed as part of the Catalyst Brands portfolio alongside other apparel retailers such as Brooks Brothers and Eddie Bauer.[5] Its departments include men's, women's and children's apparel, cosmetics, jewelry, and home furnishings along with leased departments managed by Shearshare, US Vision and Lifetouch. The chain focuses on lifestyle products for middle class households. JCPenney was founded in 1902 as a group of dry goods stores that James Cash Penney managed as part of the Golden Rule chain and incorporated under his own name in 1913. The chain struggled in the early 21st century amid the rise of internet retail and the decline of mall traffic, and stay-home measures during the COVID-19 pandemic forced it into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2020. It emerged from bankruptcy under the joint ownership of mall operators Simon Property Group and Brookfield Properties,[6] later joined by Authentic Brands Group as a minority owner.[7] In January 2025, JCPenney was combined with SPARC Group — Simon and Authentic's portfolio of legacy retail brands — to form Catalyst Brands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCPenney