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.
The Phoenix Project
This is the book I had in mind when I created this thread. :)
Ha, this was going to be my answer as well
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.
Excel for Dummies 2023
Professional gamer, esports
Microchip Fabrication by van Zant. Specifically chapters 8 and 10 discussing photolithography. Might be different chapters in current version.
“bullshit jobs” by David Graeber
Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton!
Is there a book for The Big Lebowski? 🤔
It actually is a very loose adaptation/inspired by the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep.
So kind of?
Textbooks
Makers by Cory Doctorow
“It” -Stephen King
Clown? Boat builder? Serial killer?
The US Federal code of regulations. Im a US customs broker. At 50 titles and sometimes 100s of pages per title if not thousands, it’d be quite the read in one go!
Edit: I just checked, it changes pretty regularly, usually stands somewhere around 90 thousand pages. The specific code on customs brokers is title 19 part 111. But really the whole thing is specific to my job in one way or another. I’ve never actually read the entire thing personally as it’s practically impossible. I look up whatever I need to as needed.
ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook, 2021 edition.
What do you do? My honey is an ashraer.
Kanski’s clinical ophthalmology; https://shop.elsevier.com/books/kanskis-clinical-ophthalmology/salmon/978-0-7020-7711-1
