Brandon Muramatsu

muraPOI: December 19, 2012

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  • The Five Success Secrets Of Silicon Valley Women: It’s not just for women. I wonder if I might learn something from this…

    “With all of the hubris that comes with excelling in Silicon Valley comes the humility to ask for exactly what you need.”

    (Via +Esther Wojcicki, December 9, 2012)

  • Developer Time: It’s not just developers. I find that I have to go out of my way to set aside time so I can achieve focus. (As I write this, I’m doing it right now!)

    What am I doing? “Makers Day”: I was successful for a bit doing this on Fridays. In the last year, I’ve had much less success :(. “Blocks of Time”: This is my current strategy. Scheduling time to do deep thinking/writing. “New Desk Location”: I do this by working at home, or working in one of the conference rooms at work.

    (Via StartupDigest, December 10, 2012)

  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia…: Aria Haghighi relates his founder’s story. I find it interesting for what it says about the application of computer science to learning.

    I’ll admit, that what I’ve said about the need for bringing machine learning, natural language processing and the like into our projects might be interpreted in this light,

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    But I think I’m doing this to even bring it into the conversation. We have terabytes of data about how users use OpenCourseWare, and even data about how students are using our learning management system. And we’ve just “redesigned” our OpenCourseWare, but did we do so in light of analytics and what these techniques might help us do?

    If I were to take the thesis of the article directly we should ask the question, “What or how might [insert technique here] be the heart of supporting student learning, and not an afterthought?”

    (Via StartupDigest, December 10, 2012)

  • Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do: Some thoughts about how to integrate community feedback into a product by Jeff Atwood of StackOverflow.

    “Community feedback is great, but it should never be used as a crutch, a substitute for thinking deeply about what you’re building and why.”

    (Via StartupDigest, December 10, 2012)

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