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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

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“In olden days stories for children always used to end with the words, and they lived happily ever after, this being after the Prince has married the Princess and they’ve had lots of children. In life there’s never a plot that works out like that, of course. Princesses marry bodyguards, they marry trapeze-artists and life goes on, and they live unhappily until they separate. And years later, just like the rest of us, they die. We’re only happy – truly happy – when it’s for ever-after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons

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“Another subtle but worrisome effect television has on its viewers is its tendency to promote passivity and a lack of creativity. Watching television requires little mental activity on the viewer’s part. You simply sit and let the images flow by. Some research suggests that this sort of nonparticipatory viewing fosters a short attention span, making it hard for children to apply themselves in school. Obesity”
― Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

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“Întotdeauna m-a şocat ideea că un trup superb poate fi o fabrică de secreţii; ţi-am spus că nu suport să văd o fată suflându-şi nasul. Parcă te văd; te-ai oprit, m-ai privit fix şi mi-ai spus pe un ton straniu, ştiutor, convins, apăsat: Suflându-şi nasul? Mie îmi e destul să-i văd ochiul clipind, să văd mişcarea pleoapei peste cornee, ca să simt o silă aproape insuportabilă.”
― Milan Kundera, Identity

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“Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons

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“Luanda is full of people who seem completely lucid but suddenly burst out speaking impossible languages, or crying for no apparent reason, or laughing, or cursing. Some do all these things at once. Some are convinced that they’re dead. There are others who really are dead, but no one’s had the guts to tell them. Some think they can fly. Others believe this so strongly that they really can. It’s a fairground of lunatics, this city – out there in those ruined streets, in those clusters of musseque houses all around town, there are pathologies that haven’t even been recorded.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons

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