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The Architect’s Paradox: Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Software Architecture

by Barry O'Reilly

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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

by Matthew Skelton (Goodreads Author)

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The Soul of a New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the secrets of the fastest people on earth by Adharanand Finn

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When a runner from another country does break through, the impact can be significant on the following generation. When Kelly Holmes won the 800m and 1500m gold medals at the 2004 Olympics, for example, Britain hardly had an illustrious ...more

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“We don’t think about the grammatical rules of our own language much –”
― Darach Ó Séaghdha, Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language

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“Historically, the English language had a class system beaten into its dictionary – the people rich enough to eat meat referred to it by different words (mutton, beef or pork) than did the farmers who raised it (sheep, cows or pigs).”
― Darach Ó Séaghdha, Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language

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“Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

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“The competition between paradigms is not the sort of battle that can be resolved by proofs.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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“Heat is the energy of random chaotic motion, and entropy is the amount of hidden microscopic information.”
― Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

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