The Racket
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But this is one of the quirks of professional tennis, too: the sight of elite players – adults! – shouting at their parents sitting courtside during matches. It’s the one time they know their parents won’t shout back.
“None of us own our children. We have a little while to hold them in trust”
― Twelve Months
― Twelve Months
“Your job as vp of it Operations is to ensure the fast, predictable, and uninterrupted flow of planned work that delivers value to the business while minimizing the impact and disruption of unplanned work, so you can provide stable, predictable, and secure it service.”
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“One is that it matters. it is not just a department that I can delegate away. it is smack in the middle of every major company effort we have and is critical to almost every aspect of daily operations.”
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
― The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“the climate is warming, the world’s great ice sheets are melting, and the water is rising. This is not a speculative idea, or the hypothesis of a few wacky scientists, or a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. Sea-level rise is one of the central facts of our time, as real as gravity. It will reshape our world in ways most of us can only dimly imagine.”
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World
“They’re nuts. Completely insane! I don’t get this gambling thing. Didn’t these people study statistics at university?”
― The Jennifer Morgue
― The Jennifer Morgue
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