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Ash is starting Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)

Re-reading to get a better handle on the acronyms. So Many Acronyms!

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Ash is 50% done with The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

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Ash is on page 113 of 463 of The Devil and the Dark Water

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Ash is on page 148 of 240 of Shortest History of Europe

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Ash is on page 68 of 240 of Shortest History of Europe

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Ash is on page 110 of 285 of Broken (In the Best Possible Way)

Read this on a plane, apologies to the bloke next to me for the giggles-snorts and tears of laughter, I promise I'm the safe-to-others kind of crazy, not the homicidal kind.

— Nov 05, 2022 01:09PM Add a comment

Ash is on page 40 of 217 of Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth

I'm keeping a running list of acronyms on an index card because there are a lot and the reader is assumed to have memorized them all.

— Jan 14, 2022 04:30PM Add a comment

Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth

Ash is on page 136 of 320 of A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

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Ash is on page 83 of 304 of The World According to Physics

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Ash is on page 84 of 320 of A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

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Ash is on page 24 of 304 of The World According to Physics

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Ash is on page 154 of 259 of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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Ash is on page 104 of 259 of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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Ash is reading Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Halfway through and I'm fascinated and horrified by the thought of the algorithms invisibly churning out judgements.

— Aug 21, 2021 12:12PM Add a comment

Ash is on page 51 of 128 of Hindi Script Hacking: The Optimal Pathway to Learn the Hindi Alphabet

I'm three chapters in, I'm solving the word puzzles and writing the characters. I expected this to be harder to learn and I'm happily surprised.

— May 09, 2021 02:13PM Add a comment

Hindi Script Hacking: The Optimal Pathway to Learn the Hindi Alphabet

Ash is on page 83 of 217 of Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth

I have an index card as a bookmark to keep track of all the acronyms being used. They got explained once, chapters ago, and are being used CONSTANTLY in the text.

— May 04, 2021 06:20AM Add a comment

Ash is on page 51 of 217 of Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth

Wondering about how you coach people on necessary, non-negotiable behaviours they don't do. Some stuff just HAS to be done.

— Mar 19, 2021 01:18PM Add a comment

Ash is on page 35 of 272 of Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)

Spotted my humour style as Sniper, but where do puns and wordplay land?

— Mar 14, 2021 12:50PM Add a comment

Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)

Ash is on page 221 of 304 of Born to be Mild

— Dec 16, 2020 03:28PM Add a comment

Ash is on page 256 of 418 of Battle Ground (The Dresden Files, #17)

This is exhausting to read. Battle, battle, battle, more battle, even more battle, leading up to a battle. And I'm wearying of constant battles.

— Oct 07, 2020 03:45PM Add a comment

Ash is on page 134 of 192 of No More Feedback: Cultivate Consciousness at Work

I'm still angry about the author's screw-up on Schroedinger's Cat. The cat has no agency. Your example is wrong.

— Aug 04, 2020 05:47AM Add a comment

Ash is on page 118 of 192 of No More Feedback: Cultivate Consciousness at Work

Author's description of the Schroedinger's Cat experiment is wrong. Not just slightly wrong, but completely wrong, and basing the rest of 'premise 5' on that wrong interpretation makes me doubt her research and approach. She couldn't Google the experiment to get it right? I'm shocked and disappointed.

— Jul 28, 2020 12:01PM Add a comment

Ash is on page 198 of 376 of The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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Ash is on page 172 of 376 of The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

According to the main character in this book, developers are careless, thoughtless cowboys, and Ops is perfect and never makes mistakes.

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Ash is on page 100 of 376 of The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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Ash is on page 39 of 376 of The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Not enjoying the derogatory remarks about developers,
"Show me a developer who isn't crashing production systems, and I'll show you one who can't fog a mirror." p28
"[Developers are] often carelessly breaking things and then disappearing, leaving Operations to clean up the mess. The only thing more dangerous than a developer is a developer conspiring with Security." p39

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