January 29, 2007 at 10:20 am
· Filed under Go see this
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An extraordinary and wonderful tirade.
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First-hand account of the Beer Game simulation.
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No equivalent in the US. Ph.D. students here need to promote themselves and their work independently.
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Because they’re on my mind, I have to wonder about the implications for agile software methodologies, waterfall project planning, and the desire we have to know what’s happening ahead of time. People who are “poor planners” and “procrastinators” often str
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“Learning to swallow pride, to refrain from hitting back, is one of the hardest parts of this job. And that’s where the sort of groupthink bias against difference catches you. You get provoked, and provoked, and provoked, but that’s all invisible; react,
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“Best guess beats careful planning”
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“Before sensor networks can fulfill their potential as instruments that can be easily deployed by scientists, these technical problems must be addressed so that the ratio is one nerd per ten ecologists.”
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So what’s our modern American gesture of supplication?
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All good advice, as usual.
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Politics of research proposals
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