Tim Bray channelling Fred Brooks ... "Programmers, good programmers, know that they’re not smart enough to get the core design choices right until they’ve built something that works."
On the importance of keeping budget and responsibility aligned ... automated processes don't belong to IT: 'Systems have no value without the business processes that require them'
social software vs the enterprise ... as I said elsewhere the issue isn't with the big vendors - it's crusty command-and-control hierarchies that kill social software in the enterprise
This guy seems to think that loss of productivity is the reason for social network popularity - don't agree. It may be a by-product, but it's not the motivation - it's the "social" aspect that drives us. Article sort of misses the point that (eg) Facebook