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John Perry: Structured Procrastination & Procrastination and Perfectionism

Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time and The Time Paradox

Performable: Which button color converts best?

Dan Zambonini: Why are the East of Cities usually Poorer?

Daily Routines edition:

“The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.” — Haruki Murakami

“His writing methods had not changed in years. He would sit and brood in a favourite armchair, draft a paragraph or two in pencil, then move to the typewriter, ..” — P.G. Wodehouse

“I don’t believe the muse visits you. I believe that you visit the muse. If you wait for that “perfect moment” you’re not going to be very productive.” — Michael Lewis

Grisham says, he had “these little rituals that were silly and brutal but very important.” — John Grisham

“A mathematician, is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.” — Paul Erdös

Interesting presentations from HPTS (High Performance Transaction Systems) 2009 (all links pdf)

Andreas Bechtolsheim: Technologies for Data- Intensive Computing

Ted Dunning: Search in the Cloud

Bradley Kuszmaul: A Performance Puzzle: B-Tree Insertions Are Slow on SSDs

Steve Mushero: Lessons Learned Dealing with Massive Scale and Slow Networks in China

Randy Shoup: Challenges and Lessons from Growing an e-Commerce Platform to Planet Scale

Jeff Whitehead: The Design and Implementation of the Zetta Storage Service