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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

by Steven D. Levitt

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Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

by Sarah Drasner

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The Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering

by Marshall Brain

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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells

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Knowing about things on the planet that might eat them while they’re trying to do whatever it is they’re doing was kind of important.

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“Unlike the other categories of work, unplanned work is recovery work, which almost always takes you away from your goals. That’s why it’s so important to know where your unplanned work is coming from.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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“The fundamental assumption underlying all software projects is that software is easy to change. If you violate this assumption by creating inflexible structures, then you undercut the economic model that the entire industry is based on. In”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

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“Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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“You should plan on working 60 hours per week. The first 40 are for your employer. The remaining 20 are for you. During this remaining 20 hours you should be reading, practicing, learning, and otherwise enhancing your career.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

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“In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we could be creating is staggering—the authors believe that we are missing out on approximately $2.6 trillion of value creation per year,”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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