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One percent of a given population of patients could be responsible for thirty percent of the health care costs. Common sense approaches are needed, but a personal touch is often required to establish trust and to find the best way to address a particular scenario.

In every waking moment, students now are bombarded with the din of the marketplace and encouraged to join in the madness of crowds. But in an empty room—without a high-definition, widescreen TV—one stands alone and is forced to confront the truth about oneself. 

Where the blog suggests paths, the book draws conclusions. Neither is superior to the other; rather, they represent different modes of writing—the first expansive, the latter convergent. Each mode suggests and learns from the other.

Voting because Michael Moore told you to vote is really not going to do anybody any good. Voting divorced from education is a deadly mix.

A perfect implementation of the wrong specification is worthless. Write your Readme first.

With venture backed endeavors you generally find that during the first several years the numbers in your bank account are perpetually decreasing, giving your company an expiration date. Your VCs have encouraged you to grow fast and spend hard, which makes perfect sense for them, but not necessarily for you.

Being awash in money blinded Yahoo to the fact that their revenue model was precarious and unsustainable. Being ambivalent about being a technology company and considering programmers a commodity led to the hiring of mediocre programmers, which then resulted in products that weren't very good.

Nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything, you have to work.

An in-depth walk-through of Java bytecodes.

Dismal online conversations aren't part of the state of nature; everything online takes place in a constructed environment. That means bad discourse isn't a behavior problem, it's a design problem.