The community burnt an excessive amount of brainsweat on this question; plus la change. I called myself a microISV for a few years; the original title of my blog was “microISV on a shoestring.” This was not a very considered choice; WordPress said I needed a title and so…
@patio11
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Systems Accrete Rather Than Design: Understanding Emergent Complexity
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Someday I have to write a doorstep about how The System Was Not Designed, It Accreted but today will probably not be the day for it.
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Generations in Internet Software Conferences: Ecosystems Overlap
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Free essay prompt for anyone who wants it: talk about the generations involved in Internet-based software conference, the overlaps, the mutual illegibility, the provider ecosystems, etc.
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The Original Indie Hacker Communities Before IndieHackers Era
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There was a thriving community on Joel Spolsky’s Business of Software forum who were all grinding things out in obscurity-at-large but publicly to each other, incidentally. It was IndieHackers before IndieHackers gave that general activity a name. (And before that, shareware.)
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AI Logic on Even Numbers and Mathematical Reasoning
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“Steve has some pairs of socks. Does Steve have 17 socks?”
“No.”
“How do you know?”
“Eight twos is 16. Nine twos is 18. There is no number between eight and nine.”
“… Absolutely good logic. Now, do you remember even and odd?”
“This nonsense again?”
“Yes.”
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American Math Education: Encouraging Creative Thinking Over Rigid Rules
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Adventures in American math education: Problem: Cindy has less than ten $5 bills in her pocket. How much money could she have?
Lillian (9): … Any amount.
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Commercial pressures shape algorithm design choices
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“Sort by engagement” is a choice to make your life worse and I wish we did not feel such strong commercial pressures to default users to it.
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Product Attributes and Market Competition Analysis in Tech
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And while I think I have some ability to identify e.g. what are the attributes of these products which caused them to out-compete other products, that is still buying the product. Indeed, that is a major part of the pitch to sophisticated people.
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Employee Choices and Organizational Dynamics in Tech Overshooting
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It is underappreciated how, in point 3, employee choices (to stay at margin versus leaving) plus length of the pipeline (and turning radius of an aircraft carrier) all contributed to the overshoot. Everyone acting rationally and a situation where no one was thrilled at result.
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FTX Fraud: Industrialized Crime Network, Not Simple Mastermind
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For institutional reasons the FTX fracas has been described as variously a mastermind or a small “inner circle.” The truth is a bit worse than that: it was an effectively industrialized operation, which purchased competence from the market, then deployed it to illicit ends.