A collection of best practices for product developer teams. I've found these methods working really well at Google and other Silicon Valley companies, and they can be adopted easily.

A few simple questions to ask when you are going to evaluate the potential of a startup idea, the company and their product.

We are uncertain of the future, but that is not something you talk about on a business meeting, it doesn’t sound professional. Dan North gives a few examples how we can embrace the uncertainty and face our fears.

You’ve been inspired. You’ve a big idea. Yeah? Now what?
Astro Teller shares a few of his mantras that help him to make through challenging times.

Paul Graham’s What You Can’t Say is social commentary on heretical thinking and intellectual fashions. It is a really good gym for our brain: how can we detect, analyze and handle our social environment, especially the parts that are unthinkable or at least unsayable.

People use ElasticSearch (ES) mostly for full-text search, but it can be used to store large amount of data and use it for analytics. Shay Banon, the author of the open-source, distributed search server, talks about how to achieve this.