I recently read "The Road Less Stupid" and despite the abrasive title, it was a good business book. I've covered about 3 of the 40+ chapters in my review, and even then it's only a fragment of the book.
https://www.better-simple.com/book-reports/2026/03/11/the-road-less-stupid/
I recently read the book "Accelerate: the science behind DevOps" and discovered my understanding of continuous deployment was incorrect. Branches should only live for about a day (open-source has an exception).
It's been fun considering how this small change would change how a team builds a product and how the culture would be impacted.
The book is worth a read if you're interested in improving your team/org's performance.
https://www.better-simple.com/book-reports/2026/02/09/accelerate/
Just finished reading 'How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler,' by Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics).
This is a fun read for science and history nerds alike! The schtick is that the book is a guide to re-inventing civilization for the customer of an unreliable time machine rental company. It's easier to recreate civilization in whatever era you are stuck in than to fix the time machine and get home.
All The Water in the World, Eiren Caffall
Caffall has a deep, emotional and thoughtful climate fiction. Many post apocalyptic books tend to read like the author is running a bug out scenario and can't wait to show you all the cool gear and distopian vibes they pack into the pages. The protaganist is a young teenager and her older sister, plus family, birth and chosen. Nonie grows up in the American Museum of Natural History in an downed NYC.
Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World, Michal Zalewski
If you're feeling a little nervous with the tariffs, avian flu, power blackouts, and rising fascism and want to have a rational guide to getting prepared, Zalewski's book is a good place to start. The author grew up in Poland under communist rule and is now a computer security analyst with a strong background in risk analysis and mitigation.
Black Autumn, Jeff Kirkham, Jason Ross.
Okay, so this isn't my usual jam as far as books go, but I'm chalking this one up as oppo research for my own Solar Punk novel. Quite a few in the prepper community say this book (and series) is hands down the best/most realistic Apocalypse novel out there. The authors, I believe, both work in Prepper related fields and Kirkham is former Special Forces. Lots of guns and shooting.
Just finished reading Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from Consumer Culture by Shannon Hayes. As a carfree, stay at home wife who likes to garden, bake bread and sew things, I think this is a good intro for those looking for a blue print for how to reject consumer culture and embrace the household as a unit of production. She is preaching to her choir of white, working class, formerly middle class women.
Just finished reading Naomi Brockwell's Beginner's Introduction to Privacy. Here's my #BookReport
https://amoreconviviallife.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/book-report-beginners-introduction-to-privacy/
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