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Good reads that you finish in less than 5 minutes.

John the Toolmaker – Giving the unsung hero the praise he deserves but rarely gets.
Optimise the Expensive First – Software encompasses many orders of magnitude. Optimisation should focus on removing high-order-of-magnitude operations.
Handoff Waste and Taylorism – The most common management philosophy has wasted work built into it.
The Reinforcing Nature of Toil – A look at how small interventions can yield impressive long-term improvements.
Evolution Preserves the Status Quo – The force of evolution is often misunderstood, and this means we misunderstand innovation and business too.

The things I wouldn’t want to live and work without knowing.

Bayes’ Rule in Odds Form – Phrasing Bayes’ rule differently makes it immediately much more useful in practise.
War – What Is It Good For? – learning about a theory of war (and conflict more generally) that beats all other theories.
Statistical Process Control: A Practitioner’s Guide – spc helps you do better at everything in life.
The Misunderstood Kelly Criterion – Talking about optimal investment for long-term profit.
Build vs. Buy – With the right perspective, the build vs. buy question is quite intuitive and easier to answer.
The Hidden Cost of Heroics – When choosing a course of action, focus on flow of information over direct consequences.

These articles have a lot of page views.

Tindall on Software Delays - An old school nasa manager reacting to a blown schedule in just the right way.
It Takes Long To Become Gaussian - When the central limit theorem (and much of statistics with it) fails.
Response Time Is the System Talking - A brief note on how we can deduce system utilisation from response time and dynamically adapt load.
Emptying the Dishwasher with Systems Theory – The importance of finding points that change system dynamics.
The AWK State Machine Parser Pattern - A simple pattern that makes it possible to consume surprisingly complex data with just awk.
On Competing With C Using Haskell - A performance comparison between calling C code from Haskell and optimised Haskell code.