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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprints

by Donald J. Sobol

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Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)

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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

by Malcolm Gladwell

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“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

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“We found that external approvals were negatively correlated with lead time, deployment frequency, and restore time, and had no correlation with change fail rate. In short, approval by an external body (such as a manager or CAB) simply doesn’t work to increase the stability of production systems, measured by the time to restore service and change fail rate. However, it certainly slows things down. It is, in fact, worse than having no change approval process at all.”
― Nicole Forsgren, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

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