Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States (US President). Before entering politics he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in Queens, New York City, and earned an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He then took charge of The Trump Organization, the real estate and construction firm founded by his paternal grandmother, which he ran for four and a half decades until 2017. During his real estate career, Trump has built, renovated, and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Besides real estate, he started several side ventures and has licensed the use of his name for the branding of various products and properties. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he hosted The Apprentice, a Reality TV series on NBC, from 2004 to 2015. His calculated net worth as of 2017 is $3.5 billion, making him the 544th richest person in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump (more)

Presidential immunity is the concept that a sitting president of the United States has both civil and criminal immunity for their official acts.[a] Neither civil nor criminal immunity is explicitly granted in the Constitution or any federal statute.[1][2] However, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Trump v. United States (2024) that all presidents have absolute criminal immunity for official acts under core constitutional powers, presumptive immunity for other official acts, and no immunity for unofficial acts. The court made this decision after former President Donald Trump claimed absolute immunity from being investigated for any crimes committed while in office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_immunity_in_the_United_States (more)

Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador. President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said that Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. (more)

The United States government classification system is established under Executive Order 13526, the latest in a long series of executive orders on the topic of classified information beginning in 1951.[1] Issued by President Barack Obama in 2009, Executive Order 13526 replaced earlier executive orders on the topic and modified the regulations codified to 32 C.F.R. 2001. It lays out the system of classification, declassification, and handling of national security information generated by the U.S. government and its employees and contractors, as well as information received from other governments.[2] The desired degree of secrecy about such information is known as its sensitivity. Sensitivity is based upon a calculation of the damage to national security that the release of the information would cause. The United States has three levels of classification: Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. Each level of classification indicates an increasing degree of sensitivity. Thus, if one holds a Top Secret security clearance, one is allowed to handle information up to the level of Top Secret, including Secret and Confidential information. If one holds a Secret clearance, one may not then handle Top Secret information, but may handle Secret and Confidential classified information... The United States government classifies sensitive information according to the degree to which the unauthorized disclosure would damage national security. The three primary levels of classification (from least to greatest) are Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret.[17][18][19][20] However, even Top Secret clearance does not allow one to access all information at, or below, Top Secret level. Access requires the clearance necessary for the sensitivity of the information, as well as a legitimate need to obtain the information.[21] For example, all US military pilots are required to obtain at least a Secret clearance, but they may only access documents directly related to their orders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_United_States

The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump was a criminal case against Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States. Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records with the intent to commit or conceal another crime, relating to payments made to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels to ensure her silence about an alleged sexual encounter between them.[a] The Manhattan District Attorney (DA) accused Trump of falsifying these business records with the intent to violate federal campaign finance limits, unlawfully influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and commit tax fraud... Rather than paying Stormy Daniels, the National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard negotiated a $130,000 non-disclosure agreement between Daniels and Michael Cohen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York (more)

Learning to Build: The 5 Bedrock Skills of Innovators and Entrepreneurs, Bob Moesta book (more)

Tim Ferriss: You Don't Need More How-To Advice — You Need a Beautiful and Painful Reckoning. For most of us, the how-to books on our shelves represent a growing to-do list, not advice we’ve followed. (more)

Cedric Chin: The Jobs to be Done Framework (to Understand Demand): How and why the Jobs to be Done Framework can help you sell more, faster, and accelerate your understanding of demand. (more)

Cedric Chin: Speedrunning the Skill of Demand. This week's essay is freely available and kicks us off on a new series on getting good at demand — the skill that underpins sales and marketing and product management. (2025-03-20-ChinSpeedrunningTheSkillOfDemand) (more)

Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress, book by Bob Moesta (more)

JTBD Timeline

Grammarly is an American English language writing assistant software tool. It reviews the spelling, grammar, and tone of a piece of writing as well as identifying possible instances of plagiarism. It can also suggest style and tonal recommendations to users and produce writing from prompts with its generative AI capabilities. Grammarly was developed in Ukraine and launched in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko [uk], Max Lytvyn [uk], and Dmytro Lider. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammarly

CollaborationWare: A doc for makers. https://coda.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coda_(document_editor) (more)

Talking Heads dude (more)

Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.[1] The band comprised David Byrne (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Frantz (drums and backing vocals), Tina Weymouth (bass and backing vocals) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals). Other musicians also regularly made appearances in concert and on the group's albums. The New Wave style of Talking Heads combined elements of Punk Rock, art rock, funk, avant-garde, pop music, World Music, and Americana. Frontman and songwriter David Byrne contributed neurotic, whimsical lyrics to the band's songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads (more)

I was listening to some Talking Heads on the way to work, and wondered who was playing Baritone Sax on tunes like Mr Jones and Nothing But Flowers. There were 2 different guys playing with them: (more)

Going to repeat yesterday's process with some other model. (2025-06-14) Collaborative Groups Of Thinkers That Instigated Significant Technological And Political Changes (more)

Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono (19 May 1933 – 9 June 2021)[1] was a Maltese physician and commentator. He originated the term lateral thinking, and wrote many books on thinking, including Six Thinking Hats... The originator of the term 'Lateral Thinking', de Bono wrote 85 books with translations into 46 languages.... Convinced that a key way forward for humanity is a better language, he published The Edward de Bono Code Book in 2000. In this book, he proposed a suite of new words based on numbers, where each number combination represents a useful idea or situation that currently does not have a single-word representation. For example, de Bono code 6/2 means "Give me my point of view and I will give you your point of view." Such a code might be used in situations where one or both of the two parties in a dispute are making insufficient effort to understand the other's perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono

Python Web Framework by Aaron Swartz http://webpy.org/ (more)

Finally following the advice from (2023-03-27) BiteCode on Python installation and packaging esp on Mac. (Started, stopped, then restarted further down page Apr'2025, finished laptop.) (more)