Book: Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais

Fiction

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (re-read)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick (re-read)

The Plague by Albert Camus

Neuromancer by William Gibson (re-read)

Fall: or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)

Dune by Frank Herbert

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (re-read)

Stardust by Neil Gaiman (re-read)

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (re-read)

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Cry Me a River by T.R. Pearson

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

The Red Rising series by Pierce Brown:

• Red Rising
• Golden Son
• Morning Star
• Iron Gold
• Dark Age

Nonfiction

George Marshall: Defender of the Republic by David L. Roll

Skunk Works by Ben Rich (re-read)

Masters of Doom by David Kushner

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

Influence by Robert Cialdini

GraphDB is a solid semantic graph database that includes both free and paid versions. The free version has a lot of capability and is easy to use.

Fred Brooks is perhaps best known as the author of The Mythical Man Month, a fantastic collection of essays on the craft of managing software development projects. His essay “No Silver Bullet” has emerged again in the Hacker News community.

Ingredients

• 32 oz ketchup
• 4 oz spicy brown mustard
• 2 oz apple cider vinegar
• 2 oz Karo syrup (dark corn syrup)
• 1 oz Worchestershire sauce
• 1 tbsp Texas Pete hot sauce
• 1 tbsp black pepper
• 1 tbsp red pepper flakes
• 1/2 tbsp dry yellow mustard (such as Coleman’s)
• 1/2 tbsp white pepper
• 2 oz yellow onion, chopped
• 1 tbsp unsalted butter
• 2 oz BBQ drippings or bacon fat

Motorized 2-wheel transportation is pervasive in Cuba. They’re cheap, quick, and easy to maneuver around the crumbling roads. While the rumbling, diesel-retrofitted automobiles of the 50’s and 60’s are the sexy pinup models of Cuban transportation, it’s clear that motorcycles and scooters are the pragmatic choice.

The small problems can stack up in ways that you don’t notice.