The Hacker News Top books of 2023
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The Hacker News Top books of 2023
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#2Read/use 13 of them.
The Phoenix Project is however used as toilet paper. This is a symbolic gesture after working in a very fucked up company who decided the management restructure wasn’t at fault and maybe if they bought a copy and gave it to everyone and we used it as a religious text then everything would be fine. It was a painful read at best.
Surprised to see Euclid’s elements. I have a volume from 1742 on the bookshelf!
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#3A site similar to this I enjoy is Reddit Reads[1]. It displays the top books for most subreddits.
A fun way to learn about a niche, hobby or internet culture is seeing what that group reads.
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#4Fred Brooks passed away last year.. so I would imagine that the Mythical Man month spiked because of it.
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#5Similar (per Week + All Time) :
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#6Read/use 13 of them. The Phoenix Project is however used as toilet paper. This is a symbolic gesture after working in a very fucked up company who decided the management restructure wasn’t at fault and maybe if they bought a copy and gave it to everyone and we used it as a religious text then everything would be fine. It was a painful read at best. Surprised to see Euclid’s elements. I have a volume from 1742 on the…
The Phoenix Project is ok. It's just a simple parable to teach people about the benefits of ITSM and CAB.
However, I really wished someone would write something like the phoenix project but there's no happy ending. Instead, things just get worse and worse for all the characters, both professionally and personally.
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#8Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson deserves to be much more prominent in these lists.
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#9The "first mention" link for 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' just goes to a mention of Gödel the mathematician. Looks like some false positives there. Understandably tricky to filter when books have difficult names like that.
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#10A professor introduced me to Euclid's Elements a long time ago, and he had us derive the principles from the axioms one by one in order, as Euclid did. It's a fun exercise!