(tags: Ron-Jeffries XP extreme-programming documentation software development methodologies collaboration advice)

(tags: science-fiction reading-group books fantasy novels genre fiction U-M University-of-Michigan local Ann-Arbor)

“We need to unfocus, to rely more on the network or tribe to surface things of importance, and remain open to new opportunities: these are potentially more important than the work on the desk. Don’t sharpen the knife too much.”

(tags: via:vielmetti flow GTD worklife information-overload learning cultural-norms collaboration attention productivity)

Among other things, testing the ability to bookmark a “related articles” link at Google Scholar.

(tags: data-envelopment-analysis DEA project-management benchmarking research management portfolio planning)

(tags: agility marketing learning-by-doing pedagogy)

(tags: entrepreneurs funding startups business-plan investors angels VC)

“The merits of this reform are obvious. Much like patent law, StarCraft is governed by a system of arcane rules that are mostly irrelevant to the actual process of writing innovative software.”

(tags: via:logista patents software intellectual-property lawyers humor reform)