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Iron Gold
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“I felt like poisoning a monk.”
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“My wife is not as fickle as a flame. She is an ocean. I knew from the first that I cannot own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides. And that is more than enough.”
― Iron Gold
― Iron Gold
“She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
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“if we incentivize conformance, people will insert contingency reserves to prevent their tasks from missing the schedule. The more granular the schedule, the larger the schedule reserves. And these reserves aggregate into even longer timelines. The more we increase planning detail and the harder we try to incentivize performance, the worse our problem becomes.”
― The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
― The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
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