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Tiny Humans, Big Emotions: How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

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Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by DeMarco Tom

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Most managers are willing to concede the idea that they’ve got more people worries than technical worries. But they seldom manage that way. They manage as though technology were their principal concern.

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“The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

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“Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

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