I took an hour or so this morning to play with Stable Diffusion. Stable Diffusion is the most recent example of the text-to-image AI models. It’s free & open source and runnable without a beefy computer or writing code. In short, I think just about everyone should give it a shot. I followed this tutorial…

Systems thinking is a tool and a practice for better understanding and modeling the world around us. It is especially well suited to dealing with complex adaptive systems, which are systems with a lot of interconnected parts and that adapt or change in response to their environment or input. Ecosystems, organizations, and the human body…

I’ve been working through a course of Systems Thinking for the past month. It has been an eye opening experience. Like many academic topics, the theory can seem overwhelming, but putting it into practice is more straightforward. I’m writing up a post on the DSRP (distinctions, systesms, relationships, and perspectives) method, but I was not…

As I work on the Product Lab material today, I find myself inundated with Black Friday offers and deals. I don’t mind it. So many of them are completely irrelevant to me, so I unsubscribe or delete. The relevant ones are super interesting for me. I’m not looking for a new course; I decided to…

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the United States Worthwhile LinksCreating a DoGo MapA team of developers and designers ran through this activity with our customer last week. It was an interesting and worthwhile exercise. We had two teams do this simultaneously in an hour and then compared, contrasted, and eventually merged the output.…

I whole-heartedly recommend the The Creative’s Workshop by Akimbo. Last week, I wrapped up the 100-day long workshop. During the workshop, I: wrote something every day weekly meetings with a mastermind group started the irregular.cafe sessions ran the first month-long Product Lab started an email newsletter restarted my scrimmage.us blog When I started the workshop,…

I’m taking this week off from my day job. I’ve got a few weeks of accrued vacation, and due to COVID, we weren’t able to spend it on a family vacation as I had hoped. I’ll be doing some work this week on planning for Product Lab v2. I don’t know if I’ll have it…

Some talk about documenting your work in the short term and some futurist thought on rebuilding for the new normal. If there is something you think should be showcased in here, let me know! Worthwhile Links ​A Society of Tinkerers​ Herein lies our chance to establish a different enterprising mindset: We need new ways to…

For the past 3+ months, I’ve been participating in the Seth Godin’s Creatives Workshop. It is a workshop about creating and shipping new work. That was the impetus for the re-creation of this site, the Irregular.Cafe, and the Product Lab. Last week, I passed 100 daily posts within the workshop. In the last irregular.cafe session,…

Welcome to the inaugural Scrimmage Notes. I hope that you find this useful! I want to use this to showcase interesting links about Product Development in Community. These aren’t always going to be recent links, but they should be good ones! Worthwhile Links ​F Yeah Side Projects Stories like this are why I encourage folks to have…