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If I knew of a book that explained my job I’d read it myself.
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.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4885078M/Bear
“bullshit jobs” by David Graeber
Excel for Dummies 2023
No book needed.
Professional gamer, esports
The Phoenix Project
This is the book I had in mind when I created this thread. :)
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 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.
Ha, this was going to be my answer as well
“It” -Stephen King
Clown? Boat builder? Serial killer?
Orgy host.
You definitely want to have good climate control and ventilation for that.
Microchip Fabrication by van Zant. Specifically chapters 8 and 10 discussing photolithography. Might be different chapters in current version.
Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton!
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. "
Textbooks
Does David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs count?
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook, 2021 edition.
What do you do? My honey is an ashraer.