If I knew of a book that explained my job Iβd read it myself.
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Ditto!
Reading is overrated. I'd feed it to an AI so I could have somewhere to ask questions.
Absolutely. Give it to GPT-4 and just ask it questions when I need to.
As a librarian, this question tickles me.
Got any good books on librarian science?
Good question. None that I think would be fun for the general public...
... although...
Perhaps you might enjoy the 1976 Canadian novel "Bear", which features an Archivist as the protagonist. It won the Governor General's Literary Award when it came out.
Excel for Dummies 2023
The Phoenix Project
I'm sure this is unpopular, but I hate that book with Mrs.White-level hatred.
I'm so glad there are people like you who do things like this so I don't have to.
This is the book I had in mind when I created this thread. :)
This book is sitting in our office. Is it actually a good read? Its very dusty so I always wrote it off as just another corporate book.
It basically created "Devops" as a mindset. You decide if thats a good or bad thing.
Id personally call it a good book. The first half will hurt you if youve ever worked as a sysadmin, as it basically recreates all the worst parts of the job at once to setup the story, but the second half explains how devops as a thought process can solve the issues it creates. It does not going into tools, just methods and concepts.
It can help you fix your orgs bullshit. It is heavy on "you need management buyin" angle though, so if you cant get that at your job, continue to abandon all hope.
I enjoyed it.
Bastard Operator from Hell
I'm a supervisor in a machine and welding shop so I would pick Carl Vernon's " Surrounded By Morons Make the Most of it. "
Does David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs count?
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Cinderella. The dead parents are also on point π
The Linux and Unix System Administration Handbook (6th edition)
Makers by Cory Doctorow
The US Federal code of regulations. Im a US customs broker. At 50 titles and sometimes 100s of pages per title if not thousands, itβd be quite the read in one go!
Edit: I just checked, it changes pretty regularly, usually stands somewhere around 90 thousand pages.
Textbooks
Microchip Fabrication by van Zant. Specifically chapters 8 and 10 discussing photolithography. Might be different chapters in current version.
"It" -Stephen King
Clown? Boat builder? Serial killer?
Orgy host.
You definitely want to have good climate control and ventilation for that.
"bullshit jobs" by David Graeber
The Design of Everyday Things.
Ux designer or product manager?
Designer. :)
ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook, 2021 edition.
Counselling Skills and Studies
Is there a book for The Big Lebowski? π€
It actually is a very loose adaptation/inspired by the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep.
So kind of?
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