I agree, of course, with the criticism of the price point. As I often say, $9.99/month (or even $4.99/month) is more expensive than premium email—and no matter how cool you think your thing is, it's way less important than email. You should always return something for ~$20, especially if you already have a free tier. (When I say "for $20" here, I'm talking about a one time payment, or on a subscription basis that maxes out at $20/yr.)

The following musings are highly specific to the market for what's being sold here.

Paying $20 should get you something that you aren't bothered about again for the next year. Maybe to make it even easier, enable anyone to request a refund of their $20 for any reason within the first 7 days. This gives a similar feel to a free trial, but it curbs abuse and helps target serious buyers in the first place. In the event that 7 days is not enough time even for people to convince themselves that they need it, maybe keep open the ability to use a severely limited version of the service for the remainder of the year. E.g. you can continue to log in and simulate what you'd get with the full version, but it's only accessible to you because you can't publish them and/or share links with anyone who doesn't have access to your account.

Stettler, Lucia. “Geheime Gästekartei überlebt Hotelbrand – und birgt Zündstoff.” Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), April 8, 2021, sec. Kultur. https://www.srf.ch/kultur/gesellschaft-religion/brisanter-fund-geheime-gaestekartei-ueberlebt-hotelbrand-und-birgt-zuendstoff.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>ManuelRodriguez331</span> in Advantages of Analog note taking : Zettelkasten (<time class='dt-published'>02/07/2023 08:33:25</time>)</cite></small>

srf.ch/kultur/gesellschaft-religion/brisanter-fund-geheime-gaestekartei-ueberlebt-hotelbrand-und-birgt-zuendstoff

Google translate:

four wooden boxes with highly explosive contents were spared. They were stored in a different building at the time of the inferno. They contained 20,000 guest cards that concierges and receptionists had kept secretly between 1920 and 1960.

The Grandhotel Waldhaus burned down in 1989, but saved from the inferno were 20,000 guest cards with annotations about them that were compiled between 1920 and 1960.

At the Grandhotel Waldhaus in Vulpera, Switzerland concierges and receptionists maintained a business-focused zettelkasten of cards. In addition to the typical business function these cards served denoting names, addresses, and rooms, the staff also made annotations commenting on the guests and their proclivities.

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Google Translate:

Lois Hechenblaikner, Andrea Kühbacher, Rolf Zollinger (editors): «No more Easter greetings! The secret guest file of the Grandhotel Waldhaus in Vulpera". Edition Patrick Frey, 2021.

The richly illustrated volume offers an exciting journey into a piece of Swiss tourism history: the editors have very carefully curated the 20,000 index cards from the years 1920-1960, structured them by topic and placed them in a larger, social context.

The readers learn a lot about the clientele in the Hotel Waldhaus, sometimes even in small biographical portraits; and they can use concrete examples to follow how the concierge's use of language has changed over time - especially in connection with Jewish guests, for example.

Google translate:

The clientele moved among their own kind and had no idea the polite concierge at the front desk was secretly venting his anger with venomous comments: 'Very rude fellow; does it badly with the women", "Big Protz à la Neureich", "Rappensplitter", "Stupid Goat" or "Tongs".

reply to IvanFerrero at https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/1740/anybody-using-this-approach-to-manage-contacts-how#latest

Many of the digital note taking tools that run off of text allow you to add metadata to your basic text files (as YAML headers, inline with a key:: value pair, or via #tags). Many of them have search functionality or use other programmatic means like query blocks, DataView, DataViewJS, etc. for doing queries on your files to get back lists, tables, charts, etc. of the data you're looking for.

The DataView repository has some good examples of how this works with something like Obsidian. Fortunately if you're using simple text files you can usually put them into one or more platforms to get the data and affordances you want out of them individually.

As an example, I have a script block in my daily note in Obsidian for birthdays in my notes that fall on today's date:

```dataview LIST birthday FROM "Lists/People" WHERE birthday.day = date(2023-01-18).day ```

If I put the text birthday:: 1927-12-08 into a note about Niklas Luhmann, his name and birthday would appear in my daily note on his birthday. One can use similar functionality to create tables of books they read with titles, authors, ratings, dates read, etc. or a variety of other data input which parses through your plaintext files. Services like Obsidian, Logseq, et al. are getting better about allowing these types of programmatic searches for users without backgrounds in programming and various communities usually provide help for pre-made little snippets like the one above that one can cut and paste into their notes to get the outputs that they need. Another Obsidian based example that uses text files for tracking academic journal articles can be found at https://nataliekraneiss.com/your-academic-reading-list-in-obsidian/; I'm sure there are similar versions for other text-based platforms.

In pre-digital times, for a manual version of a rolodex like this in paper, one could use different color cards as pseudo-tags (doctors are on yellow cards, family members on blue cards, friends on green cards, etc.) or adding edge notches or even tabs to represent different types of metadata. See for example the edge colored cards in Hawkexpress' Pile of Index Cards: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkexpress/albums/72157594200490122

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Peter Smith</span> in Zettelkasten (<time class='dt-published'>01/17/2023 16:52:31</time>)</cite></small>

https://petersmith.org/blog/2022/12/10/zettelkasten/

Peter Smith was introduced to Niklas Luhmann at an European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference in the early 2000s, ostensibly a business related group.

I came across this via an IndieWeb reference and webmention.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/david-rockefellers-famous-rolodex-is-astonishing-heres-a-first-peek-1512494592

https://archive.org/details/practicalbookkee00ellirich/page/6/mode/2up

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>u/stockwestfale</span> in Requesting antinet hivemind assistance: ANALOG ACCOUNTING/BUDGETING/BOOKKEEPING : antinet (<time class='dt-published'>01/08/2023 12:04:20</time>)</cite></small>

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

Sound manipulator, what a great title for a business card.

Reply to:

Who is Zettelkasten note-taking system for? <br /> u/Beens__<br /> https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/zhyu5i/who_is_zettelkasten_notetaking_system_for/

Perhaps your use case may benefit from knowing the longer term outcomes of such processes, particularly as they relate to idea generation and innovation within your areas of interest? Keeping notes which you review over periodically and between which you create potential links will help to foster more productive long term combinatorial creativity, which will help you create new and potentially useful ideas much more quickly than blank page-based brainstorming.

Her method was much more ad hoc than the more highly refined methods of Luhmann which allowed him to write, but perhaps there's something you might appreciate from the example of the character Tess McGill in the movie Working Girl. Even more base in practice is that of Eminem, which shows far less structure, but could still have interesting long term creativity effects, though again, it bears repeating that one should occasionally revisit their notes (even if they're only in "headline form") in attempts to refresh their memory and link old ideas to new to generate completely new ideas.

How can we frame the science of poverty with respect to the model of statistical mechanics?

Unemployment numbers have very little to do with levels of poverty. They definitely don't seem to be correlated with poverty levels, in fact perhaps inversely so. Many would say that people are lazy and don't want to work when the general reality is that they do want to work (for a variety of reasons including identity and self-esteem), but the amount of work they can find and the pay they receive for it are the bigger problems.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/195498555898?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l3160&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=e7e2ee3cbef84c44845f6ccdab47484e&bu=45618614899&ut=RU&exe=0&ext=0&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20221201034345&segname=11021

Wow, a new file drawer still in the box!

To add some other intermediary services:

• ko-fi (site for contribution)
• GitHub sponsors (for GitPages)
• itch.io (for games)
• Gumroad (for sites and repositories)
• Patreon (for fan interaction)

To add a service for groups:

• Open Collective

To add a service that enables fans to support the creators directly and anonymously via microdonations or small donations by pre-charging their Coil account to spend on content streaming or tipping the creators' wallets via a layer containing JS script following the Interledger Protocol proposed to W3C:

• Web Monetization

If you want to know more, head to Web Monetization or Community or Explainer

Disclaimer: I am a recipient of a grant from the Interledger Foundation, so there would be a Conflict of Interest if I edited directly. Plus, sharing on Hypothesis allows other users to chime in.

Something @chrisaldrich mentioned on Reddit as examples of someone selling niche Zettelkasten decks. Seem more like protocol-kasten decks to aid problem-solving in specific contexts.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1590111416014409728.html

I'm slowly getting the feeling that Musk is a system one thinker who relies on others to do his system two thinking.

Recommended approach over saying "it depends" to your stakeholders

https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Yawman_%26_Erbe_Manufacturing_Company

Some fascinating advertisements for Yawman and Erbe

How to start a VPN business

"TBD 🚀🚀🚀" is such a bad indication for the future of a product

Decision-making in uncertainty | BPS. (n.d.). Retrieved November 22, 2021, from https://www.bps.org.uk/events/decision-making-uncertainty

This is what we want to see!! The publishing company Annotate Books is republishing classic texts with a roomier 1.8" ruled margin on every page to make it easier to annotate texts.

It reminds me about the idea of having print-on-demand interleaved books. Why not have print-on-demand books which have wider than usual margins either with or without lines/grids/dots for easier note taking and marginalia?

Link to: https://hypothes.is/a/C5WcYFhsEeyLyFeV9leIzw

5 ERP system examples (who benefits from ERP?)

The term EnterpriseResourcePlanning (ERP) system refers to a large number of integrated softwaresuites used by companies to manage day-to-day operations and business workflows, including datamanagement, inventory control, accounting, CRM, and projectmanagement. Thus, in order to remain an effective contender in an era of digital commerce, ERP_systems are an important part of the business information technology infrastructure.

Is the future of business something that is someting you've seen or read elsewhere (except out of the mouth of the undoubtedly rhetorically gifted Greg. But i have not actually looked for othe best deal for something in a community - or does that also mean checking reddit /r/tabletbrand to see what is wrong with it? what is the involvement for it to be a community...

At the end, the top priority is solving problems for users.

This is an interesting analogy

A lot of the crypto/web3 ideas focus on "exiting" the physical world status quo. However, being more inclusive seems to be a better way to help better adoption of web3.

Opening up physical galleries feels very expensive, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s4xx_muNcs

Don't recommend unless you have 100 hours to follow up on everything here that goes beyond the surface.

Be aware that this is a gateway for what I'm sure is a relatively sophisticated sales funnel.

Motivational and a great start, but I wonder how many followed up on these techniques and methods, internalized them and used them every day? I've not read his book, but I suspect it's got the usual mnemonic methods that go back millennia. And yet, these things are still not commonplace. People just don't seem to want to put in the work.

As a result, they become a sales tool with a get rich quick (get smart quick) hook/scheme. Great for Kwik's pocketbook, but what about actual outcomes for the hundreds who attended or the 34.6k people who've watched this video so far?

These methods need to be instilled in youth as it's rare for adults to bother.

Acronyms for remembering things are alright, but not incredibly effective as most people will have issues remembering the acronym itself much less what the letters stand for.

There seems to be an over-fondness for acronyms for people selling systems like this. (See also Tiago Forte as another example.)

...but we'll make up for it in volume.

In summary, women don't do well in politics (and probably business) due to a collective illusion effect of the gatekeepers who believe everyone else thinks that they are rocking the boat.

Groups can influence a cult like power on individual group members.

For many tools and apps payment for privacy is becoming the norm.

Examples: - Kumu.io - Github for private repos - ...

pros: - helps to encourage putting things into the commons

cons: - Normalizes the idea of payment for privacy which can be a toxic tool.

discuss...

The 6 Business Objectives of SaaS

The main business objectives of a company are to address the problems and needs of their customers with products or services that are a solution for them. The importance of technology in our daily lives means that we simply cannot ignore SaaS when it comes to running our business.

Food for thought.

How do companies that produce goods (light notebooks and graph paper) turn a profit? (For either of the two aforementioned examples, anyone can make their own from possibly cheaper primitives. Making graph paper, for example, is just putting lines on paper.)

Those goods being disposable and tangibly/temporally "rivalrous" in the physical world is one part of it, but it's not everything. People pay for convenience. (Look to e.g. paid Netflix subscriptions versus just pirating the stuff.) "Buy this ready-to-consume ebook" is one example of potentially profitable convenience that has made at least some inroads with the general public. Why shouldn't "buy this ready-to-use template" belong to the same set? Yeah, you could make your own, but this is graph paper.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-05-02/neal-adams-crusty-bunkers-burbank

design reviews exist to persuade stakeholders that you’re offering the best solution at the intersection of customer and business needs.

courses on effective imitation.

If imitation is so effective, what would teaching imitation to students look like in a variety of settings including, academia, business, and other areas?

Is teaching by way of imitation the best method for the majority of students? Are there ways to test this versus other methods for broad effectiveness?

How can we better leverage imitation in teaching for application to the real world?

I seem to recall a book or two like this that were on the best seller list in the 1990s and early 2000s based on a best selling Christian self help book, but with an edition that had a journal like reflection space. Other than the old word rapiaria, is there a word for this broad genre besides self-help journal?

An example might be Rhonda Byrne's book The Secret (Atria Books, 2006) which had a gratitude journal version (Atria Books, 2007, 978-1582702087).

Another example includes Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life (Zondervan, 2002) with a journal version (Zondervan, 2002, 978-0310807186).

There's also a sub-genre of diaries and journals that have these sort of preprinted quotes/reflections for each day in addition to space for one to write their own reflections.

Has anyone created a daily blogging/reflection platform that includes these sorts of things? One might repurpose the Hello Dolly WordPress plugin to create journal prompts for everyday writing and reflection.

This makes me wonder if it would be a useful product to have a highly linked note collection to sell to others in a modern context? It could be done entirely in text files for compatibility with Roam Research, Obsidian, Logseq, et al. Ideally it would be done in a more commonplace way with quotes and interlinked and could be expanded upon by the purchaser.

Mackenzie County won’t contract businesses with ‘coercive’ COVID-19 vaccine mandates, reeve says. (n.d.). Edmontonjournal. Retrieved 28 February 2022, from https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/mackenzie-county-wont-contract-businesses-with-coercive-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-reeve-says

Hur, K. (2022, February 16). Restaurateur says he spends around $750,000 on security to deal with unruly diners. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/16/restauranteur-says-he-spends-around-750000-on-security-to-deal-with-unruly-diners.html

Gap analysis in 4 steps Instead of groping around in the dark, a gap analysis of the gap leads us through a detailed investigation of where our organization is currently and where we want to be. This allows us to act on the basis of facts, not on the basis of assumptions.

Business Intelligence

Major COVID course correction immediately required. (n.d.). Retrieved February 7, 2022, from https://ozsage.org/media_releases/major-covid-course-correction-immediately-required/

With blank backs, French playing cards in the late 1700s were often used as lottery tickets, marriage and death announcements, notepads, and business cards.

Smith, J., & Duncan, P. (2022, February 3). Firms handed £1.3bn in Covid contracts claimed £1m in furlough grants. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/03/dozen-uk-companies-given-vip-covid-ppe-contracts-also-claimed-furlough-grants

As the result of online business models and SEO, most writing becomes about chasing clout and audience eyeballs rather than providing thought provoking insight and razor sharp analysis. The audience reaction has weakened with the anger reaction machines like Twitter.

We need better business models that aren't built on hype.

http://puck.news/who-is-puck/

Another platform play of journalists banding together to find a niche space of readers.

One of the most complex questions in journalism in the past decade or more is how can one best align editorial mission with the business model? This is particularly difficult because the traditional business model(s) have been shifting in the move to online.

Old business advice: find the rich and charge them a pretty penny for something they either think they need or fear they can't live without.

Booming time to start a plastic surgeon affiliate marketing business targeted at frequent Zoom callers!

Who says the link in bio needs to go to a company's homepage? Why couldn't it be a custom landing page geared toward the social media site the link is placed on?

The reasoning here is completely false.

Elliott, L., & editor, L. E. E. (2022, January 24). Omicron pushes UK business growth to 11-month low. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/24/uk-business-growth-omicron-covid-variant-january

Is ITIL Losing Importance Due To SaaS? ITIL is a set of procedures and practices of IT service management when we mistakenly believe that we don't have to worry about that in SaaS. However, ITIL has many aspects and facets that encompasses running IT in an organization. Moreover, it is not a checklist for the implementation of specific services in specific environments. For SaaS, we can just use a different toolset to follow the general ITIL guidelines.

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH. (2022, January 10). Yes, Neoliberal John Snow wins the Internet today 👏 H/T @gregggonsalves Reminds me of this…. Https://t.co/zt9tINBxal [Tweet]. @GYamey. https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1480527550531186696

An interesting coming book grouping various application issues (business, crime, military and terrorism).

Prof. Christina Pagel. (2022, January 19). This makes it so clear that the release of all measures right now (esp masks, esp schools) is only to protect himself & his job. Boris has zero interest in protecting others from getting sick, needing hospital or dying. Or protecting businesses, schools, NHS from disruption. [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1483884632651313152

Follow the the methods of 'HOPPP'

1. Headline
2. Offer
3. Proof
4. Persuade
5. P.s.

Why is it so common for engineering teams to be mistrusted by other parts of the business?

Part of that is definitely on engineers: chasing the new shiny, over-engineering, etc.

That seems unlikely to account for all of it, though.

Business strategy alignment and the secrets of strategic planning https://en.itpedia.nl/2022/01/02/business-strategie-alignment-en-de-geheimen-van-strategische-planning/ The Business Strategy stems from a detailed strategic planning process. However, the question we want to answer in this article is whether we can execute multiple strategies side by side while they do not interfere with each other. We compare multiple strategies for business, information provision and IT and focus on Strategic planning.

Warning: End-of-year exhaustion coming. We can receive some advice to assist us in expanding our company while preserving your creative spark.

Kim Willsher. (2021, December 16). Let’s try again...new “drastic” regulations for anyone planning to come to France from UK. There must be a “compelling” reason. This does not include tourism or business French nationals/residents can return but must have a negative Covid test within 24hrs before departure. 1/2 [Tweet]. @kimwillsher1. https://twitter.com/kimwillsher1/status/1471401803828764682

Green computing : Workplace and data center, a real business case https://en.itpedia.nl/2021/12/11/green-computing-werkplek-datacenter-business-case/ Green computing, or green information technology, is the practice of environmentally sustainable computing. In this article we take a closer look at: Greening the workplace. A green workplace business case. * Opportunities to make Data Centers greener by: - ​​Other IT equipment. - The cooling of IT spaces. - The data center buildings.

Does that mean you don't pay much taxes at least while you're paying mortgage on the property? Maybe but remember that you can only claim the mortgage interest not the mortgage principal.

Look into how this works

What happens in my case? Would the principal purpose be categorized as mentorship or investment.

If that's true then it makes no sense to run a rental business through your corporation.

Critics of petition against COVID-19 measures say it is grounded in hyperbole and misinformation. (n.d.). Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general/critics-of-petition-against-covid-19-measures-say-it-is-grounded-in-hyperbole-and-misinformation/362441

Standard algorithms as a reliable engine in SaaS https://en.itpedia.nl/2021/12/06/standaard-algoritmen-als-betrouwbaar-motorblok-in-saas/ The term "Algorithm" has gotten a bad rap in recent years. This is because large tech companies such as Facebook and Google are often accused of threatening our privacy. However, algorithms are an integral part of every application. As is known, SaaS is standard software, which makes use of algorithms just like other software.

• But what are algorithms anyway?
• How can we use standard algorithms?
• How do standard algorithms end up in our software?
• When is software not an algorithm?

Should Financial Executives lead the IT department? A bit of IT-financials thinking... https://en.itpedia.nl/2021/11/23/moeten-financial-executives-leiding-geven-aan-de-it-afdeling/

Rattner, N. (2021, October 28). Some 5% of unvaccinated adults quit their jobs over Covid vaccine mandates, survey shows. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/covid-vaccine-some-5percent-of-unvaccinated-adults-have-quit-their-jobs-over-a-mandate-survey-shows.html

Why it's worth to use ad blockers & how site owners could replace this business model

Software as a service, or SaaS, is one of the most promising business models in 2021. It’s popular among entrepreneurs, investors, and customers alike. Learn about the most promising ideas you can tap into to build your own SaaS startup and make it successful.

We are at a point in time where we need to reflect on our business practices. The question should be who are we serving and how do we show we are serving them.

A trustless conditional reward model for production of common goods.

A proposal to use decentralized blockchain to make large scale coordination possible.

US to lift Covid travel ban for vaccinated passengers from UK and most of EU | US immigration | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved September 21, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/20/us-travel-ban-lifted-uk-eu-flights-allowed-vaccinated-latest-covid-restrictions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXYQqDs2Shs

Morris, S. (2021, August 26). ‘It’s really hit us now’: Newquay becomes England’s Covid capital. The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/26/newquay-cornwall-becomes-england-covid-capital