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J.A. is Currently Reading

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Pitching. Isn't. Complicated: The Secrets of Pro Pitchers Aren't Secrets At All

by Dan Blewett (Goodreads Author)

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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter (The Scott Adams Success Series)

by Scott Adams

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Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought (Adams 101 Series)

by Paul Kleinman

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J.A.’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp

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Typical meeting roles and how meeting participants assume them. 2. Explanation of what these distinct meeting roles want out of a meeting. 3. How to use this understanding to get the hell out of the meeting as quickly as possible.

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J.A.’s Quotes

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: humor, perspective, science

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