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Common Traits of A-Players

An unscientific observation of what A-Players have in common http://blog.summation.net/2009/10/common-traits-of-aplayers.html
http://soniariahi.com/disintermediated-education/

Disintermediated Education- Sonia Riahi's Blog

Last Friday Manu Sharma came in and gave us a review of Richard Florida ’s talk in Ottawa. Manu came with high praise for Richard Florida as a speaker and a starter of thoughtful and controversial conversation, which is high praise coming from Manu as he is not easily impressed.
As one of the most recent additions to Digg's engineering team, I thought I would share with you some of what it's like to work at a place that's doing some really innovative and exciting things on the Web. http://about.digg.com/blog/new-kids-perspective-diggs-engineering-culture

the Blog » Blog Archive » A New Kid’s Perspective on Digg’s Engi

Russian Math, the Poincare Conjecture and Perelman - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513870490836470.html It may be no accident that, while some of the best American mathematical minds worked to solve one of the century's hardest problems—the Poincaré Conjecture—it was a Russian mathematician working in Russia who, early in this decade, finally triumphed.
I was at dinner the other night with a group of entrepreneurs.

The returns to entrepreneurship « Startup Boy

http://startupboy.com/2009/11/09/the-returns-to-entrepreneurship/
http://journal.uggedal.com/nosql-east-2009---summary-of-day-1/ After using a non-relational database while creating was it up?

Journal of Eivind Uggedal: NoSQL East 2009 - Summary of Day 1

http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/07/10/unwanted-new-articles-in-wikipedia/

Andrew Lih » Blog Archive » Unwanted: New articles in Wikipedia

That’s a pretty provocative headline. I don’t usually do provocative headlines. But Wikipedia has undergone such a dramatic culture shift of late that it merits wider attention.
I think it’s wonderful that The New York Times did a deal to bring Freakonomics under its wing — hosting it, selling ads on it, promoting it, but not buying it or hiring its creators and not treating it like so much freelance fodder to go through the Times’ editing mill. That’s new. This follows my somewhat similar deal at PrezVid with the Washington Post and another big-media outlet to be named shortly, in which they also leave PrezVid as an independent entity (in this case, we keep our site and URL) but take up some of the content onto their sites. http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/08/14/site-or-network-own-or-join/

Blog Archive » Site or network? Own or join?

However, if you actually observe what software developers spend their time doing, you'll find that they spend most of their time trying to understand code:

Coding Horror: When Understanding means Rewriting

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000684.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000842.html Hugh MacLeod asks, if open source is so great, where are all the open source billionaires?

Coding Horror: Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires?

Cho Seung-Hui's Plays - News Bloggers

Wind Publications March Madness officially begins Sunday with the announcement of the selection of the 68 teams appearing in this year's NCAA basketball tournament.
ROOT is fascinating. ROOT is creating a vault and a market for your attention metadata. Get some context from CEO Seth Goldstein’s talk at ETech .

ROOT /Markets for your attention