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I doubt it'll be fruitful, but it's better than nothing.

Life is a lot more interesting and fruitful with them around.

It's really hard to predict which technologies will be the most fruitful.

Research can take a long time to be fruitful, and many avenues of research won't pan out at all.

You need to recognise what might work, things you've seen before, directions to take that are more likely to be fruitful.

I feel like everyone expects a reaction and increased security and such, but sometimes this type of reaction won't be fruitful.

But the JavaScript console and element inspector are so useful on their own for learning D3 + DOM, it’s likely more fruitful to encourage people to use the console directly.

But we still have to be judicious in granting these monopolies: "...it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices.

And why is it no longer succeeding in quite the same way?I agree that Waterloos talent pool is interesting by virtue of UW, but not as deep as SV. Then again, lots of SV companies make these mistakes, so I think its more fruitful to look at the mistakes than to try to theorize about the environment somehow creating the mistakes, as if RIM would somehow be Apple if they had only relocated a decade ago.

As "software eats the world" and tech companies start trying to compete in "meat space" industries, it will be imperative for them to understand why things are done the way they are, and how fruitful progress can be made without creating unnecessary friction by simply ignoring settled expectations.

Similarly, when you happen to overhear co-workers talking about something important and you go join the discussion and it turns out to be very fruitful you have that same post hoc rationalization that how things happened is the best and/or only possible way for productive work to happen.