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The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

Benjamin Lorr

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources

M. Kat Anderson

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson, et al.

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

David J. Griffiths

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren PhD , Jez Humble , et al.

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely, Simon Jones, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword, et al.

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Paul Hawken

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough and Simon & Schuster Audio

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Industrial Society and Its Future: Unabomber Manifesto

Theodore John Kaczynski

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and STAN (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

Richard McElreath

4.9 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Simple Techniques to Instantly Overcome Depression, Relieve Anxiety, and Rewire Your Brain

Olivia Telford

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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garethrowlandsonMar 22, 2021

Honestly, I think "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" is the main work in this field.

If you can pair with someone who habitually works TDD, do so. Sounds like getting experience in a team with effective modern practices (see "Accelerate" by Forsgren et al) could change your life for the better.

jkodumalonJuly 27, 2021

We've been using Sleuth at LaunchDarkly as a single pane of glass for all changes going out into production. The addition of DORA metrics is exciting-- as an engineering leader, Accelerate (https://itrevolution.com/accelerate-book/) is one of the few books I've read where the practices described meet reality. Having a tool track those metrics is a welcome addition.

One thing I'm curious about is Sleuth's approach to the "garbage in, garbage out" problem-- if I'm tracking (e.g.) MTTR, I've found that our teams aren't always perfect about tracking the start / end times of an incident. If the data's incorrect, can I modify it in manually?

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