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Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

by Ryan A. Bush (Goodreads Author)

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Who Is the Liar

by Laura Lee Bahr (Goodreads Author)

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Mastering Terraform: A practical guide to building and deploying infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP

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

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

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“Do change management boards actually improve delivery performance?” (Spoiler alert: they do not; they are negatively correlated with tempo and stability.)

After 25 years of poiting this out, I am vindicated at last!!!

Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation

by Pini Reznik

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Darrin’s Quotes

“Next to music, beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

tags: drinking, music

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“Damien is a friend.
Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

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“Friday, August 04, 2006
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Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny.”
― William Gibson

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“I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.”
― William Gibson, Idoru

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

tags: first-lines

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