Hiten Shah: Why Zoom doesn’t have product/market fit. If any company has product/market fit, it’s Zoom. Right?... Except Zoom doesn’t have product/market fit or high customer satisfaction. (more)

Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable — the market has its valuation all wrong, says Adam Schwab. Until a few months ago, no company had created more wealth for its shareholders than Sydney-grown Atlassian. At its peak in October 2021, the Nasdaq-listed business was valued $162 billion. ($445/share) (Jun'2022 low $178/sh; 2023 low $118/sh) (more)

was Micro ISV, now (since 2010) mainly founder of WPEngine - http://blog.asmartbear.com/jason-cohen (more)

Scott Alexander: I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup. If I had to define “tolerance” it would be something like “respect and kindness toward members of an outgroup”... So what makes an outgroup? Proximity plus small differences. (Cultural Pluralism) (more)

Brendan Eich (/ˈaɪk/; born July 4, 1961)[1] is an American technologist and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He co-founded the Mozilla project,[2] the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, and served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer and briefly its chief executive officer.[3] He is the CEO of Brave Software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich (more)

Steve Denning: A Manifesto For Management In The Digital Age. The Most Serious Failures In Agile Came From Outside Software Development (more)

Steve Denning: Why Agile Needs To Take Over Management Itself. Let’s face it. The age of agile has not arrived. The twenty-year effort to persuade large corporations to become Agile enterprises has largely failed. (business agility) (more)

Kevin Owen McCarthy (born January 26, 1965) is an American politician who served as the 55th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from January to October 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. Representative for California's 20th congressional district from 2007 until his resignation in 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy (more)

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American conservative political commentator and writer who hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023. Since his contract with Fox News was terminated, he has hosted Tucker on X. An advocate of former U.S. President Donald Trump, Carlson has been described as "perhaps the highest-profile proponent of Trumpism",[3] and as "the most influential voice in right-wing media, without a close second." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson

Addison Mitchell McConnell III[1] (/məˈkɒnəl/ mə-KON-əl; born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney who has served as Senate Minority Leader since 2021 and the senior United States senator from Kentucky since 1985, the longest serving senator in his state's history. He previously served as minority leader from 2007 to 2015, majority leader from 2015 to 2021 and was majority whip from 2003 to 2007. McConnell has been the leader of the Senate Republican Conference since 2007, making him the longest serving Senate party leader in U.S. history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell

James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American venture capitalist, author, and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2023.[1][2] A member of the Republican Party, he came to prominence with his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Vance

Jon Udell on PostgreSql everywhere. SQLite is the world's most widely-deployed database engine. It’s in your phone, it’s in your browser, and if you search your computer you’ll find its .db files there too. SQLite was inspired by Postgres. Its author Richard Hipp has called SQLite a “conceptual fork” of Postgres. (more)

like a Personal Server/hosted server, but made up of mesh of functions running in various parts of the cloud. cf serverless (more)

ToolsForThought-Rocks coordinated a Orion Reed presentation/demo on "Spatial Canvases: Towards an Integration Domain for HCI" (more)

Kamala Devi Harris[a] (/ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi/ ⓘ KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee;[2][3] born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.[4][5] A member of the Democratic Party, she was previously attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris (more)

Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

Albert Einstein (/ˈaɪnstaɪn/ EYEN-styne;[4] German: [ˈalbɛɐt ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] ⓘ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics, and was thus a central figure in the revolutionary reshaping of the scientific understanding of nature that modern physics accomplished in the first decades of the twentieth century.[1][5] His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".[6] He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect",[7] a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.[8][9] In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, Einstein was ranked the greatest physicist of all time.[10] His intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein broadly synonymous with genius. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

Independent Film producer (Film Industry) - was at Amazon Original Movies 2015-May'2020. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hope (more)

My books include Mind Management, Not Time Management, The Heart to Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating, Digital Zettelkasten (2021), Design for Hackers (2011) (which debuted in the top 20 on all of Amazon), and multiple “short reads”. I’ve sold more than 100,000 books, in twelve languages. https://kadavy.net/about/

The 50 Most Important Life-Saving Breakthroughs in History. By the 20th century, an explosion in new technologies, treatments, and other science-backed practices helped to increase global life expectancy at an unprecedented rate. From 1900 to 2015, global life expectancy more than doubled, shooting well past the 70 year mark. (more)