Sebastian Gnagnarella
“Maybe . . . the major problems of systems work are not so much technological as sociological.”
“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.”
― Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
― Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“Mike Rother says that it almost doesn’t matter what you improve, as long as you’re improving something. Why? Because if you are not improving, entropy guarantees that you are actually getting worse, which ensures that there is no path to zero errors, zero work-related accidents, and zero loss.”
― 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
“What’s needed, in my view, is to approach big and small problems with the same set of values and emotions, because they are, in fact, self-similar.”
― Creativity, Inc.: an inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar
― Creativity, Inc.: an inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar
Sebastian Gnagnarella’s 2024 Year in Books
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