Adrian Bordinc

“while people might care which company they join, they don’t care which company they work for. The truth is that, once there, people care which team they’re on.”
― Marcus Buckingham, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World

“What one wins in a finite game is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them—unless, of course, I address myself as an other. The effectiveness of a title depends on its visibility, its noticeability to others.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. Leslie Lamport”
― Alex Petrov, Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

“After all, what’s another word for data storage in a computer? Memory. Memory, as in the sense of human memory, and as in the sense of history.”
― Balaji S. Srinivasan, The Network State: How To Start a New Country