aka asset bubble

artificial super-intelligence - AGI but way smarter/faster than humans

a Disputation Arena? Argumentation Visualization. Our goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any public Debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all. http://debategraph.org/ (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #118: Claude Ascendant. The big news of this week was of course the release of Claude Opus 4. I offered two review posts: One on safety and alignment, and one on mundane utility, and a bonus fun post on Google’s Veo 3. (more)

Paul Ford and Dan Shipper Transcript: Anthropic's Newest Model Blew This Founder's Mind'And Made Him Uncomfortable. (more)

Note-taking app https://www.remnote.com/ (more)

In the United States, math wars are debates over modern mathematics education, textbooks and curricula that were triggered by the publication in 1989 of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and subsequent development and widespread adoption of a new generation of mathematics curricula inspired by these standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_wars Basic Arithmetic

Another flavor of non-traditional Basic Arithmetic instruction? (more)

in culture, similar to monoculture

aka BigTech?

see Craftsmanship, The Craft, etc.

Gail Alexrod: How to Measure Product Market Fit with Superhuman Founder Rahul Vohra. They’re both even necessary. So the PMF score (very disappointed) measures a level of dependency on a product, either because there’s such a strong emotional connection or because nothing else exists quite like it. The NPS score on the other hand measures how strong your word of mouth effect is. In other words, how strong or how viral rather your product can be in the real world. In practice, one is not better than the other. You need both to build a meaningful company. One is gonna determine the fundamental success of the product, and the other is going to determine your distribution success (more)

Email app/service https://superhuman.com/, cf Superhero (more)

In doing Agile Product Development, there can be a tension between a "top-down" (I don't mean exec-driven, I mean mental-stack) Product Vision/Product Strategy/Conceptual Integrity and an incremental/iterative process of Thinking In Bets. (more)

a statistical process control chart (graph), letting you concentrate on significant changes to a metric - see (2023-02-06) Chin How To Become Data Driven (more)

amazon weekly metrics review process/meeting (WBR); documented a bit in Working Backwards, and more heavily in (2024-07-02) Chin The Amazon Weekly Business Review

Dialogue process using IBIS, Shared Display, and Active Listening. Dialogue Mapping™ is a radically inclusive facilitation process that creates a diagram or 'map' (cf mind-map) that captures and connects participants' comments as a meeting conversation unfolds. It is especially effective with highly complex or “Wicked” problems that are wrought with both social and technical complexity, as well as a sometimes maddening inability to move forward in a meaningful and cost effective way. Dialogue Mapping™ creates forward progress in situations that have been stuck; it clears the way for robust decisions that last. It is effective because it works with the non-linear way humans really think, communicate, and make decisions. (more)

Michael Green: Are You An American? I’m going to spend two minutes on markets and then I’ll climb the Substack soapbox… (more)

Michael Green: Part 2: The Door Has Opened. The wealth you’re counting on—the retirement accounts, the home equity, the “nest egg” that’s supposed to make this all worthwhile—is just as fake as the poverty line. But the humans behind that wealth are real. And they are amazing. — Part 1. (Re [[(2025-11-23) Green Poverty Line Is A Lie]]) (more)

Cedric Chin: The Shape of The Game We Play. A few weeks ago someone pinged me on Twitter with a very interesting comment. He said that whilst he enjoyed learning about business from biographies as much as the next person, “reading books about weightlifting doesn’t shortcut actually hitting the gym, doing the reps, feeling the movement and developing the instincts.” (more)