Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian mobile application developer, founded in 2013 and based in Milan. The company is known primarily for iOS mobile apps, including Splice, 30 Day Fitness, Live Quiz, and Remini.[2] In November 2022, it agreed to acquire Evernote.[3] Bending Spoons is one of the world's leading mobile developers, by number of app downloads.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons (more)

Could one develop a useful Taxonomy of Business Contexts? (more)

Charles Duhigg (born 1974) is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He was a reporter for The New York Times. He currently writes for The New Yorker Magazine and is the author of three books: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business; Smarter Faster Better; and Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. In 2013, Duhigg was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of ten articles on the business practices of Apple and other technology companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duhigg

Teresa Torres: This Keystone Habit Will Fuel the Rest of Your Continuous Discovery Habits - Product Talk (more)

Teresa Torres: What a Good Continuous Discovery Team Looks Like [Case Study]. The opportunity solution tree was a BIG one. We use it at different places in the discovery and delivery cycle—sometimes daily, sometimes monthly. But at all times the tree is irreplaceable as a way to visually communicate all the discovery and thinking that goes into development and decision making. Stakeholders that used to throw curveballs into our sprints can now truly grasp the level of thinking (and testing) that has gone against our opportunities and are much less likely to interrupt our course. (more)

The Kano model is a theory for product management/development and customer satisfaction developed in the 1980s by Noriaki Kano. This model provides a framework for understanding how different features of a product or service impact customer satisfaction, allowing organizations to prioritize development efforts effectively. According to the Kano Model, customer preferences are classified into five distinct categories, each representing different levels of influence on satisfaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model (more)

Went up to Cooper Hewitt (Design museum) last weekend. (No, Victor Lombardi, not Cooper Union.) (more)

Ben Hunt on World War [AI]. How's that whole golden age thing going for you so far? That golden age of human leisure and wealth awaiting us in a world optimized for the thinking machines. Are you working a bit less today, enjoying the early fruits of all this 'AI productivity'? Or are you somehow working longer, more stressful hours than ever? (more)

Michael Green: Part 1: My Life Is a Lie. Markets, liquidity, factor models—none of these ever felt self-evident to me. Markets are mechanisms of price clearing. Mechanisms have parameters. Parameters distort outcomes. This is the lens through which I learned to see everything: find the parameter, find the distortion, find the opportunity. But there was one number I had somehow never interrogated. The poverty line. (more)

John Gall (September 18, 1925 – December 15, 2014) was an American author, scholar, and pediatrician.[1][2] Gall is known for his 1975 book General Systemantics: an essay on how systems work, and especially how they fail..., a critique of systems theory. One of the statements from this book has become known as Gall's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author) (more)

the real name of David Wong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Pargin (more)

see affordability, poverty, precarity, inflation

The Agile Product Development equivalent of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose? (more)

The reactive client-first (local-first?) store for your API. TanStack DB gives you a reactive, client-first store for your API data with collections, live queries and optimistic mutations that keep your UI reactive, consistent and blazing fast... Built on a Typescript implementation of differential dataflow, TanStack DB gives you real-time sync, live queries and local writes. With no stale data, super fast re-rendering and sub-millisecond cross-collection queries — even for large complex apps. (data store) https://tanstack.com/db

Mission Genesis is an initiative launched by the United States government to accelerate scientific research through advanced artificial intelligence (AI, mainly GenAI?) technologies. Announced in November 2025, the mission aims to revolutionize innovation across multiple scientific disciplines. The initiative was officially launched by the White House, emphasizing its strategic importance for national progress.[1] The Department of Energy highlighted that Genesis will leverage cutting-edge AI computing to solve complex scientific problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Genesis (more)

Warren Weaver (July 17, 1894 – November 24, 1978)[1] was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator.[2] He is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation and as an important figure in creating support for science in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Weaver (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Read the Roon. Roon, member of OpenAI’s technical staff, is one of the few candidates for a Worthy Opponent when discussing questions of AI capabilities development, AI existential risk and what we should do about it. (more)

The (Truly) Greatest Hits Edition. Sam Valenti (SV4) is an old friend of WITI. He’s the founder of Ghostly International and runs the essential music Substack Herb Sundays. (more)

Rusty Guinn: You. Will. Eat. The. Bugs. *I have eaten bugs. I did not do so willingly. (more)

Zeynep Tufekci: The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes. By issuing covid-19 recommendations that are simultaneously too timid and too complicated, the CDC is repeating a mistake that’s hounded America’s pandemic response. The new guidelines are rigid and binary, and aren’t accompanied by explanations or a link to an accessible version of the underlying science, which would empower people to both understand them better and figure things out for themselves. (more)