Applying software principles to research

We discuss "Breaking Smart", a book that outlines the core principles of software engineering, and attempt to export them to the world of academia (00:00) Intro (00:10) Who is Venkatesh Rao (01:00) What is Breaking smart (02:30) Software is eating the world (03:00) Software gives you high leverage (03:50) A new approach to problem solving (06:00) Agility and iteration (08:00) Top-down vs bottom-up approaches (12:00) Rough consensus and maximal interestingness (13:30) Important vs fun problems (15:10) Seek ambiguity in the long term, extreme clarity in the immediate next steps (17:10) Strong views, weakly held (17:50) Release early, release often (18:30) Stress test your ideas (20:00) Perpetual beta (21:00) Pros of open source (22:00) Streams of ideas and serendipity (23:10) Challenges of making academia open source (26:10) Tinkering (26:50) How does anything important get done with this model?