If I knew of a book that explained my job Iβd read it myself.
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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.
"bullshit jobs" by David Graeber
Excel for Dummies 2023
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
Microchip Fabrication by van Zant. Specifically chapters 8 and 10 discussing photolithography. Might be different chapters in current version.
"It" -Stephen King
Clown? Boat builder? Serial killer?
Orgy host.
You definitely want to have good climate control and ventilation for that.
Makers by Cory Doctorow
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. "
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton!
The Linux and Unix System Administration Handbook (6th edition)
Textbooks
Is there a book for The Big Lebowski? π€
It actually is a very loose adaptation/inspired by the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep.
So kind of?
Bastard Operator from Hell
Counselling Skills and Studies
The US Federal code of regulations. Im a US customs broker. At 50 titles and sometimes 100s of pages per title if not thousands, itβd 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. Iβve never actually read the entire thing personally as itβs practically impossible. I look up whatever I need to as needed.
Kanski's clinical ophthalmology; https://shop.elsevier.com/books/kanskis-clinical-ophthalmology/salmon/978-0-7020-7711-1
ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook, 2021 edition.
What do you do? My honey is an ashraer.
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
The book I wrote. When I first talked with the publisher he asked, "what skills would you look for in someone who wants to do your job?" And that's the premise I stuck with writing it.
Does David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs count?
Cinderella. The dead parents are also on point π
As someone going into conservation I'd probably just throw a copy Nat Geo at them or something. If we were talking about shows/movies I'd go with Wildcat, even if it is a depressing documentary.
Between the lines
Itβs a book that takes the theory out of acoustic design and loudspeaker placement / management, and says βLife sucks, itβs never perfect, letβs make it suck less.β
The Design of Everyday Things.
Ux designer or product manager?
Designer. :)
The House of God
Not a book, but the Bastard Operator From Hell series on theregister.co.uk gives a decent picture, if a touch dramatized.
Alt text: Baby Loves Coding book cover by Ruth Spiro
James Dukeminierβs βPropertyβ
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