New York Knicks, Building a contender for the 2024 – 2025

In February of 2022, I was experimenting with the NBA Wardley Maps, and I wrote about various concepts I was experimenting while reviewing their team (organization, culture, team…). All can be found here: https://joapen.com/blog/2022/02/01/new-york-knicks-building-to-play-off-2021-2022/ New York Knicks 24-25 This past season they reached the conference semifinals with three key players injured but without a scratch … Read more

How AWS Takes Advantage of Open Source Projects

This gameplay has not a name in the table of Wardley’s gameplays, but it’s something that is happening in an ongoing basis. The map The steps Typically Open Source projects start as response to a specific technical problem, and if that problem to be solved is common, both: community and product grows. Some of these … Read more

MapAthon, first contest

Warning: this is a contest, come if you are willing to proactively participate. If you are just willing to listen, better stay home. What is this about? Prompt Engineering helps in many aspects of work, and to build maps is not an exception.How can we create Wardley Maps with the existing prompt engineering solutions?What is … Read more

ILC example on Prompt Engineering

Last week OpenAI announced “Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT” where they are exploiting data stored in competitors silos. These silos has potential value, and they are exploited in some ways by individuals. Education of users in a “different way of doing things” continues. And again, OpenAI wants to be between User and other competitors: … Read more

Your new car is 100% yours

10 years ago, you purchased a car and 100% of the car was yours. This is not true anymore. You do not own the software of your car, you only have the usufruct. Is the car owner aware of this? Platform “enshitification” has consequences on digital platforms, but will extend to physical world when software … Read more

The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

This framework created by Sequoia is described here. The article is very interesting, I suggest you to read it if this is an interesting topic to you (because you work in Venture Capital or if you are trying to seeking financing). Finding product-market fit is key for every early-stage startup. Sequoia walks founders through this … Read more

Platform “enshitification”

During these days there is one campaign where Twitter has suspended accounts in a massive and targeted manner for Spanish accounts with certain patterns: more than 10.000 followers, daily updates about a niche, and they are not blue or premium. The advertising business model is very crowded and the platforms have to make a living … Read more