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A quick and worthwhile read for anyone trying to build an effective team. Although the five topics this book covers aren’t the only ones that matter for team succ...

This book feels like a random collection of “what-if” stories that revolve around genetics. Some of the “what-ifs” are genuinely thought-provoking (e.g., transgen...

At its core, this book creates a fun new world that is filled with some interesting characters (albeit with dumb names like Chivalry, Verity, Shrewd, Regal, and P...

A must-read for every programmer. This is the best overview of data storage and distributed systems—two key concepts for building almost any piece of software tod...

An OK kids book. The good: several unique themes you don’t often see in children’s stories, such as the tesseract, a smart girl protagonist, and a love for scienc...

A fun, entertaining, action-filled book with a fun (pseudo) scientific premise that mixes biology, genetics, and chaos theory. Also, dinosaurs! The biggest downs...

I just published the first entry in The Yak Shaving Series, where we share stories of some of the unexpected, bizarre, painful, and time-consuming problems we’ve...

A fun, thrilling read on biology, disease, outbreaks, and extraterrestrial life.

Today, we are kicking off a series of blog posts where we share the pain of DevOps through short stories: Introducing: The Yak Shaving Series.

My reactions as I read this book: “Wow, what a premise! The allies lose WWII and the Axis take over the world!” “All of Europe dominated by Germany? The US spli...