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The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World’s Biggest Markets by Emily Lambert Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: March 18th, 2018 Reading Time: A day This is a captivating book providing a cohesive historical account of
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Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law, and Became the World’s Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal by A. Craig Copetas Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: March 17th, 2018 Reading Time: The train ride to O’Hare I found an
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Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: March 4th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon A great supplement
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As of late I’ve found myself stumbling through the “new” Snapchat. I don’t use the app as much as I once did, and now it seems that every time I tap the icon and perform a few rudimentary swipes I
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Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: February 6th, 2018 Reading Time: A month “Perfect algorithms may not have perfect implementations.” And perfect books
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Rating: ★★ Date Finished: January 29th, 2018 Reading Time: Ten days This is the most cliché book I have ever read. The Phoenix Project uses a contrived
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I recently hit one hundred followers on Goodreads. I’m not sure what it means. Goodreads, with a user base purportedly in the tens of millions, is virtually unknown in the world of social media marketing. Performing a Google search for
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2017 has come to a close and I have never been more fond of reading. This year, I finished my fifty-second book–Grocery–on December 31st at 11:45PM. I made my way through 15,000 pages while working full time and guiding a side
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Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: January 10th, 2018 Reading Time: A day Docker Deep Dive (v4) is a fun and useful introduction to Docker. Learning by Google searches and Stack Overflow will lead to bad
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 31st, 2017 Reading Time: Two days Grocery was the last book I read in 2017 and it was a formidable contender for top
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