I was expecting the philosopher, but was pleasantly surprised when it was the Lost character.
That being said, this article is more of a funny article about Lost targeted at programmers than it is an article about important software development practices inspired by Lost.
Somehow I think a case could be made that radical empiricism is a useful model for software development...i.e. one's a priori ideas about customers, markets, and the utility of software are not as useful as customer feedback:
And if our dreamer pleases to try whether the glowing heat of a glass furnace be barely a wandering imagination in a drowsy man's fancy, by putting his hand into it, he may perhaps be wakened into a certainty greater than he could wish