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. "
The Linux and Unix System Administration Handbook (6th edition)
Professional gamer, esports
Excel for Dummies 2023
Makers by Cory Doctorow
Textbooks
If I knew of a book that explained my job I’d read it myself.
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.
Ditto!
The Phoenix Project
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.
Ha, this was going to be my answer as well
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.
This is the book I had in mind when I created this thread. :)
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Kanski’s clinical ophthalmology; https://shop.elsevier.com/books/kanskis-clinical-ophthalmology/salmon/978-0-7020-7711-1
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?
Counselling Skills and Studies
Microchip Fabrication by van Zant. Specifically chapters 8 and 10 discussing photolithography. Might be different chapters in current version.
Does David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs count?
Cinderella. The dead parents are also on point 👌
