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Yeah, sure, new books are great, but do you ever read old books?

Have you ever read ‘American Pastoral’ by Philip Roth?

It's his brilliant disembowelling of America in the 20th Century, and all its hopes of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss.

#reading #PhilipRoth #AmericanPastoral

https://DrBsLibrary.com/americanpastoral

Yeah, sure, new books are great, but do you ever read old books?

Have you ever read ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’, by John le Carré?

It’s his classic spy novel of betrayal and living double lives.

https://drbslibrary.com/tinkertailor

Yeah, sure, new books are great, but do you ever read old books?

Have you ever read 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O’Brien?

It's a brilliantly absurd story of a village police force and a brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle.

https://DrBsLibrary.com/thirdpoliceman

The most important delivery heuristic: *discover stuff* first of all.

Find things out at the start, before you even begin thinking about a plan let alone getting to work.

Save time and pain later on by discovering as much as you can up front.

Delivering projects is complex and fraught with ways for things to go wrong. Thankfully, there're ways to make that far less likely. 🎉

Experience teaches you some fast and frugal rules-of-thumb to help simplify complex things and make sure you start out on a firm footing and progress from there.