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Tom Atwell is on page 39 of The Cynic's Breviary

Reading Gutenberg version of English translation: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/.... I believe it's only 60 pages or so.

— Sep 05, 2026 11:09AM Add a comment

Tom Atwell is on page 28 of 293 of The Soul of a New Machine

Prologue: good man in a storm (Tom West).

History of Data General.

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Tom Atwell is 78% done with How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Scenario-based planning vs architectural programming.

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Tom Atwell is 61% done with How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

The Santa Fe style as a successful vernacular style

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Tom Atwell is 53% done with How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

The Preservationist Revolution (and the birth of NIMBYism?) and the Romance of Maintenance.

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Tom Atwell is 43% done with How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Low Road, High Road, No Road, Unreal Estate

The preservationist movement. (How does it align with NIMBYism?)

Old buildings are freeing. The good ones persist.

— Mar 01, 2026 10:23AM Add a comment

Tom Atwell is 17% done with How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Low road and high road. The Virginia "monts" of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison.

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Tom Atwell is 7% done with How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Chapter 1: building evolve as they age. 3 factors: technology, money, factor

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Tom Atwell is 34% done with Mason & Dixon

Mason & Dixon reach Philadelphia (second only to London). Between the Transit of Venus and here, they went each to their respective homes? I had some trouble making sense of the chronology. Also some kind of controversy with their work and compensation. I don't really follow the politics either.

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Tom Atwell is 26% done with Mason & Dixon

They survive the Cape and St. Helena. Now assigned to go to America. Mason's family is giving him a hard time.

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Tom Atwell is 11% done with Mason & Dixon

Mason and Dixon meet in England for a scientific research trip. Survive a French naval assault in the Channel. End up in South Africa.

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Tom Atwell is 60% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The fall of Moses. Double-crossed by Rockefeller.

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Tom Atwell is 59% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Moses takes on Rockefeller, loses state positions. Heads World's Fair. And grossly mismanages budget.

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Tom Atwell is 52% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The ugly repercussions of RM's housing programs: contagious slums.

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Tom Atwell is 49% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Moses: champion of the automobile and auto industry

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Tom Atwell is 45% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The autocratic advantages to large infrastructure projects. (Maybe any type of coordinated project.)

— Jun 28, 2025 01:35PM Add a comment

Tom Atwell is 43% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Moses and the Mayors. Amazing how much he was able to bully them. Well maybe not so much a surprise with Impy.

— Jun 14, 2025 01:56PM Add a comment

Tom Atwell is 38% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Moses consolidates power when Tammany regains Mayor's seat after LaGuardia gets ill and decides not to run again.

— May 31, 2025 11:14AM Add a comment

Tom Atwell is 34% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Moses consolidates his power and fully embraces the dark power of his Authority. The battle over the Battery Park Tunnel/Bridge starts.

If power is the dark side, what is the light side? Cooperation? Enlightened cooperation?

— May 11, 2025 12:55PM Add a comment

Tom Atwell is 27% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

1930's. Moses amasses powers and starts tearing up neighborhoods to build highway. Powered by a vicious streak that drives him to humiliate others.

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Tom Atwell is 14% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Moses appointed to new Secretary of State position. This is 1927 or so?

Starts cutting deals with tycoons on Long Island and bullying small farmers.

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Tom Atwell is finished with The Complete Guide to Rails Performance

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Tom Atwell is 10% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Caro gets a bit of power as parks commissioner and immediately begins abusing it. In his defense, he goes after rich Long Islanders hoarding park lands.

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Tom Atwell is 86% done with The Complete Guide to Rails Performance

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Tom Atwell is 7% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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Tom Atwell is 79% done with The Complete Guide to Rails Performance

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Tom Atwell is 22% done with The Complete Guide to Rails Performance

Business case for performance monitors. Profiling vs benchmarking.

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Tom Atwell is 4% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

After a progressive mayor gets elected in 1916 (?), Moses gets a job in City Hall and tries to force his civil service reforms on the city.

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Tom Atwell is 3% done with The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Young Robert Moses. Smart, willful grandmother and mother. Young progressive snob who fits right in at Oxford.

— Jan 12, 2025 10:43AM Add a comment

Tom Atwell is 62% done with The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)

LBJ admin hosts first state BBQ for West German leader in Texas. It's a big success and helps distinguish his leadership style for JFK's.

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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)

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