:Running Down the Way Up

This is good stuff:
Decisions are temporary so make the call and move on. If decisions aren’t temporary it’s not the decision’s fault, it’s yours (or your organizations, or your red tape, or…).
Done. Start to think of it as a magical word. When you get to done it means something’s been accomplished. A decision has been [...]

A brief description of how agile software development and in particular the Scrum methodology derive from lean concepts and thinking in manufacturing. Talks about empirical process control, speed vs. quality and eliminating waste.
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Programmers Benjamin Eriksson and Mattias Pierre have announced that iDoom now runs on an iPod nano and features configurable controls.
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via Paul Graham:
During the Bubble, a lot of people predicted that startups would outsource their development to India. I think a better model for the future is David Heinemeier Hansson, who outsourced his development to a more powerful language instead. A lot of well-known applications are now, like Basecamp, written by just one programmer. And [...]