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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
A Short History of China
Accounting
Ackerman bargaining
Active component of catnip
Actor-Observer Bias
Adverse Selection
Afforestation / Reforestation
Against Overtime
Agile
Agile 8
Aging
AI Concerns
AlpineJS
Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa)
American Generalship
American Individualism
An Elegant Puzzle: systems of Engineering Management
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Anchor and adjustment effect
Anguilla
Annual Planning
Ansible
Answer the question
Answering a binary, zero-sum question
Anti-Monopoly U.S. History
Anti-patterns in Data Visualization
Apple Pie Position
Arbitrary Coherence
Arel
Arizona
Asking for things
Assasin's Mace Weapons
Assessing the accuracy of our beliefs
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Audio Transcription
Averaging Advice
AWS
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Backcasting
Bad Therapy
Bayes Theorem
Behavioral Change Stairway Model (BCSM)
Behavioral Interview Questions
Belief in the law of small numbers
Best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA)
Black Swan Event
Blank Sheet Reading Method
Blindspot bias
Blogging
BOT model
Bottom up
Box Jumps
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Brainstorming
Branch Non-Fiction Book
Breastfeeding
Brooks's Law
Build vs. Buy
Building Teams
Burnout
Business -> Architecture -> Process -> Organization (BAPO)
Business Strategy
Buying a house
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Caching
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Calibrated Questions
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CAP Theorem
Capabilities model for prioritization
Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
Carbon Farming with Timber Bamboo: A Superior Sequestration System Compared to Wood
Carbon Markets
Carbon Offsets
Central Bank
Central Bank Digital Currency
Central Banking 101
Certifying a carbon offset project
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Changing Strong Willed Leaders Minds
Chaotic Systems
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Chatham House Rule
Chess
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Chinese strategies against U.S. Military
Chip War
Clear and Simple as the Truth
Climate Change
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Clothes
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Cognitive Task Analysis
Collective Action Problem
Command Line
Communicating Technical Topics
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Communication
Companies can come to reflect their customer
Company/Team/Self
Confront without Confrontation
Conservative roots of the individual mandate
Conventional Monetary Policy
Cooking
Coordinating Groups
Coordination Models
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Crafting a job description
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Crisis Monetary Policy
Criterion for unlawful weapons
Critical Mass
Crusonia Plant
Cryptocurrency
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Data Engineering
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Debt: The First 5000 Years
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Decoy Effect
Deflation
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Descaling the Espresso Machine
DevOps
Direct Air Capture
Discount Rate
Disposable Credit Cards
Docker
Document Culture
Doom Emacs
DORA Metrics
Driving Culture Change
Dumb Phones
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Early Postpartum Parenting
Economics
Ecto
Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
Elixir
ELK Stack
Emacs
Email Aliases
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Engineering Career Ladder
Engineering Organization
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Epigenome
Equity Markets
EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
Eurodollar
Evaluating Technical Managers
Even Overs
Excel
Executive Presence
Executive Skill Set
Experienced leaders can lead approximately 5-7 people
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F-35
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Failure of U.S. to meet the future threat from China
Fallacies
Fantastical
Favorite Quotes
Fed Watching
Federal Funds Rate
Federal Open Market Committee
Federal Reserve
Federation
Feedback
Feedback Loop
Fiction Book Reviews
Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks Fraud in Financial Reports, 3rd Edition
Financial Statements
Finishing
Fooled by Randomness
Forward Pass and Backward Pass
Four Types of Money
France
Free AI Tools and Models
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FreeNAS / TrueNAS
Functional Programming Languages
Furin
Furin Clevage Site
FX-swap market
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Gambler's Fallacy
Game Theory
Gen-Z Mental Health Crisis
General Schriever and ICBMs
Gerasimov Doctrine
GnuPG (gpg)
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Go Fever
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Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
Goodhart's Law
Great Power Conflict
Group Decision Making
Group Reasoning
Guaranteeing Execution
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Habit Change
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Hallmarks of Aging
Hammerspoon
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Haskell
Hawaii
Headcount Planning
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Health Benefits of Exercise
Healthcare Data Integration
Heavily Discount Parenting Advice
Hedging by options dealers and sudden equity drops
High Output Management
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Hindsight Bias
Hiring
History of FBI negotiation failures
Hobbies
Holding others Accountable
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Home Gym Platform
Home Networking
Homelab
Hot Tub Maintenance
How Big Things Get Done
How to Manage Risk
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness
Huey Long
Human Command, Machine Control
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Ida Tarbell
Ideas
Image Schema
Incentives
Incident Response
Incident Response Plan
Infant Sleep
Inflation
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Information Theory of Aging
Inspected Trust
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Install Absinthe in a Phoenix project
Instrumental Variable
Integrating an acquired company
Inter-Team Communication
Interest Rates
Interesting Mental Models and Axioms
Intervention points in systems
Interviewing Candidates
Intrusion Detection System
Inverse Thinking
Investing
Ireland
Is risk management being practiced in a company?
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JAMStack
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John D. Rockefeller
Journaling
Junior Software Developer
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Kadane's Algorithm
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Labeling
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Leadership during Crisis
Leading without Authority
Leaf Non-Fiction book
Learning
Learning New Things
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Lifespan: why We Age and Why We Don't Have To
Ligatures
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Long Firm
Lua
Ludlow Massacre
Lying for Money
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Mailmate
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work Flow
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Management By Objectives (MBO)
Management Training
Management vs. Leadership
Managers grow and coordinate their team
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
Managing Managers
Managing the business
Managing Up
Marginal Notes in HTML
Matrix Management
Maui
Measurements for Business
Mechanical Keyboards
Meditations: A New Translation
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Meetings convey culture
Memorized Rules
Memory Management in Rust
Mental Models
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Metadiscourse
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Minimalism and Farmhouse Chic
Mirroring
Modeling Systems
Modern Monetary Theory
Mòjiāng viral outbreak
Money and Finance
Money Creation
Money Markets
Monkeys and Pedestals
Monopsony
Monte Carlo method
Motivated Reasoning
Mouseless Interaction
Murphy Bed Build
My 6 memorized rules
My book notes
My Ideal Work Culture
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Narrative Non-Fiction Book
Natural Language Processing
Negotiation
Negotiation One Sheet
Neovim
Netherlands
Networking
Networking (Computer)
Never letter a good crisis go to waste
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
NextJS
Nix
Non-violent communication
North Star Metric
Note Taking
Numbers Station
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Onboarding
One Bag
One-on-Ones
One-on-Ones for the direct report
OODA Loop
OOPS (Organization Operational Suprise)
Open-ended question asking
OpenAI
Operational Expense (OPEX)
Order of Magnitude Estimation (Fermi)
Organizational Structure
Outcome-blind analysis
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Parenting
Pareto Principle
Parkinson's Law
Patterns for managing up
Patterns in Group Decision Making
Performance Reviews
Personal Knowledge Management
Personal Systems
Phoenix Webframework
Phone Screening
Photolithography
Pi-hole on RancherOS
Picks and Shovels
Pie Problem
Plumbing
Podcasts
Point and Calling
Policy Resistance
Politics
Poor Decision Making
Popping the stack
Positional Leadership
Postgresql
Precision Medicine
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Pregnancy
Premortems
Presentations
Pressure and Project Schedule
Prisoners of Geography
Privacy
Private Equity
Process Behavior Chart
Processes
Processes over results
Product Management
Productivity
Programming Languages
Project deadlines
Project Management
Project Planning
Prospect Theory
Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE)
Public Speaking
Python
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Quality vs. Speed
Quantitative Easing
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Rails
Random Amusing Knowledge
Re-evaluating a belief
Re-routing the narrative
Reading
Reading on the Web
Recommended Books on Product Management
Recommended Books on Technical management
Reference Checking
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
Regression to the Mean
Regular Expressions (Regex)
Regulation Q
Relationship between reading, writing, and thinking
Remote Work
Remote: Office Not Required
Replacements for common command line tools
Repo Market
Request for Comment (RFC)
Resignations
Resulting
Reverse Interview
RICE/ICE Scoring
Risk Management
Roadmaps
Rockstars and Teamwork
Role of the U.S. Dollar in Foreign Markets
Ruby
Rules of mutable references in Rust
Rules of Rust Value Ownership
Russian Buzzer Radio Station
Rust
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Salary Negotiation
Salvator Mundi
Sankey Diagram
SARS-CoV-1 Outbreak (2002-2004)
SARS‑CoV‑2
Save more or save time
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Scaling
Schelling Point
Scotland
Screening Problem
Scrum
Section 1031 Exchange
Security
Self Image
Self Improvement
Self-serving Bias
Semiconductor Chips
Senior Software Engineer
Shell Scripting
Showdown at Gucci Gulch
Side Project
SIDS
Signaling and Shaping in Geopolitics
Signs of executive dysfunction
Silicon Chip Supply Chain
Sinclair's anti-aging regime
Siturins
Slack
Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
Sleep Training
Smart Home
Smoked Ribs
Smoked Salmon
Social Norms and Market Norms
Software Development
Software Development Life Cycle
Software Development Practices
Software Engineer Toolkit
Solar
Some People Need Killing
Sorting in Politics
Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
St. Bart's
Staff Engineer
Standard Oil
Standards
STAR Framework
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Starting a new technical management job
Static Site
Static Site on AWS with Cloudfront and HTTPS
Sticky Sessions
Stock Options
Stocks and Flows
Strategy
Strategy: A History
Structured Data
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
Studying Chess Openings
Superforecasting
Supplements
Supporting a Laboring Partner
Survival Circuit
Survivorship bias
Swaddling
Syntopical Reading
System
System Design
Systems Analysis
Systems Thinking
T
Tactical Empathy
Tactics vs. Strategy
Tailwind
Taiwan
Task Switching Costs
Taxes
Team Coordination
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Technical Career Advice
Technical Careers
Technical Executive
Technical Knowledge
Technical Learning Resources
Technical People Management
Technical Project Estimation
Technical Recruiting
Technical Writing
Temporal discounting
Terminal and Coding Themes
Terminal Emulators
Test
Text Editors
Text Summarization with LLM
The Anxious Generation
The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
The Cost of Efficiency
The Cost of Free
The Dead Hand
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
The Endowment Effect
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
The Halo Effect
The Hundred-Year Marathon
The Importance of Pragmatism at Work
The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
The Lake Wobegone Effect
The Manager's Path: a Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Nature of Projects
The Pinocchio Effect
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Process is not a Shield
The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein
The Rollup
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
The worth of human capital
Theories for biological aging
These Truths: A History of the United States
Thinking
Thinking in Bets: making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thread of Doom
Three Types of Negotiation Leverage
Time Management
Time span of discretion
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Title Inflation
Top of Mind
Training
Transportation costs in early oil days
Travel
Treasury Yield Curve
Truffles
Trunk Non-Fiction Book
Trunk-Branch-Leaf books
Turkey
U
U-2 Longevity
UI / UX
Ulysses contracts
Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos
Unpredictability of chaotic systems
V
V.P. of Engineering
V.P. of Engineering Interview Questions
Values Audit
Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Vitality genes
W
Walter Wriston
War
Washing Leafy Greens
Wastewater Surveillance
Ways to Build Remote Culture
Wealth Plus
Web Architecture
Web Development
Web Tracking
Weight Training
Werner Syndrom
What Managers Do
What We Know about Climate Change, updated edition
When costs accelerate non-lineraly, do not delay fixes for efficiency
Where to find new books
Whiteboards bias towards the drawer
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities
Why demographic change can be anxiety provoking
Why We're Polarized
Williams Jennings Bryan
Windows Managers
Woodpecker Method
Woodworking
Work difficulty and team member growth
Workplace Diversity
Wright Patman
Writing
Writing and Thinking
Wrong way risk
WRX
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XOR Algorithm Trick
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Yield Curve Control
Yosemite
Yubikey
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Zellij
Zettelkasten
Zone of Possible Agreement (ZOPA)
Zotero
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