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You see, it seems that the issue is not learning by itself. But, learning by reading a book cover to cover about a topic. It is not fast enough as the current times seem to require…

For learning, I find LLM's helpful as a knoledgeable "tutor" or "friend" during the reading of a complex paper or book. Before, when I got stuck, I spend lot's of time going around…

I think the article has a point. There seem to be two reactions among senior engineers atound me these days. On one side, there are people who have become a bit more productive. Th…

So far, the best reference for software engineering research appears to be R. Glass et al.'s 2002 work, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering. I haven't found a better or mor…

What do a crowded airport in Beijing, parenting, the risk-return frontier, and micromanaging bosses have in common? Everything—if you look at the world through the right lens. In T…

Author here. I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad you like it. As far as I know, it is not possible to sell PDF through Amazon KDP. As a promotion, Kindle was free for 5 days. I …

What do a crowded airport in Beijing, parenting, the risk-return frontier, and micromanaging bosses have in common? Everything—if you look at the world through the right lens. In T…

I think the problem is not just software estimation, but project cost and time estimation is difficult across many domains (construction, transportation, IT, defense, and even the …

As a baseline on what is know and not know about managing software projects, I always recommend Robert L. Glass Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering . More speculatively, I …

>the optimal leverage being below 1 in all cases involving multiplicative processes This is wrong. Instead I should have written: "there is an optimal leverage point, most likely c…

I remember the first time I heard someone (N. Taleb) expressing a negative opinion about economists because they were not "getting" the concept of ergodicity (in addition to other …

It is not equivalent, but if someone has the time to read the list, I would recommend instead the reading of R. L. Glass "Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering" [1]. [1] http…

First of all, I think that the idea and the effort behind the book are a fantastic and worth undertaking. The issue for me is that the connection between the individual topics and …

Hamming, Richard R. Art of doing science and engineering: Learning to learn. CRC Press, 2014. ...and for papers, I like the curated list in Fermat's Library: https://fermatslibrary…

The best advice I have seen about this topic is the classic book "The Unwritten Laws of Engineering" from W.J. King. I always recommend the book to newcomers. Note that the latest …