Why Google Source has high uptime
Google Source has tremendous uptime. They manage it by having a super-flexible schema, and code that takes advantage of it.
Reading "The Power of Two Choices," by Michael David Mitzenmacher
Use two choices. It’s easy to get hugely better performance by moving from one choice to two choices. It’s very hard to do better.
Notes on Development Sequence in Small Groups by Bruce W. Tuckman
Forming. Storming. Norming. Performing. Every writer who writes about teams all reference this one (and only this one) article, and those four stages. It’s foundational, and it rhymes.
Microsoft WinWord Post-Mortem
In 1984 Microsoft decided to port MacWord to Windows. They expected it would take about one year. It did not. It took five. In one of the many, many great documents unearthed by the Comes v. Microsoft antitrust lawsuit is this great postmortem of what went wrong.
Starting a Project with Top-down Agreement
I’m doing this project from the top-down. It’s totally unlike how I normally work. But it’s also my first time leading a team, which is also unlike how I normally work, and has different needs.