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December reading...
[Image] 12/31/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer 12/30/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer 12/29/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer 12/28/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer 12/27/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer 12/26/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer 12/11/2019 - 12/25/2019: "I Remember Nothing" - Anne Billson, The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 11 (2019) ed. by Ellen Datlow  and all the following.  Ellen's recommendation in this volume is what got me to read Rutger's The Anomaly last month which I really enjoyed.  I ordered one or two other of her recommendations as well, although my current queue is like 20 books lone. Monkeys on the Beach by Ralph Robert Moore Painted Wolves by Ray Cluley Shit Happens   by Michael Marshall Smith I enjoyed this one - I get along with his writing style. You Know How the Story Goes by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Back Along the Old Track by Sam Hicks Masks by Peter Sutton The Donner Party by Dale Bailey Interesting alt history, although I intuited the ending far in advance. Milkteeth  by Kristi DeMeester Haak by John Langan [Image] Maybe my favorite.  Peter Pan alternative.  Genuinely Cthulhu lore style. Thin Cold Hands by Gemma Files A Tiny Mirror by Eloise C. C. Shepherd I Love You Mary-Grace by Amelia Mangan The Jaws of Ouroboros by Steve Toase More scifi than horror in my opinion, but scary scifi, I'll give it that. A Brief Moment of Rage by Bill Davidson Golden Sun  by Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters, and Michael Wehunt White Mare by Thana Niveau Girls Without Their Faces On by Laird Barron Thumbsucker  by Robert Shearman You Are Released by Joe Hill End of the world tale.  More realism than horror story. Red Rain  by Adam-Troy Castro Split Chain Stitch by Steve Toase No Exit by Orrin Grey Haunt  by Siobhan Carroll Sleep  by Carly Holmes 12/10/2019: Challenging SQL on Hadoop Performance with Apache Druid 12/9/2019: Basic Druid documentation 12/8/2019: Accessing data using Apache Druid (Hortonworks) 12/7/2019: Introduction to TWO approaches of content-based Recommendation System - not my favorite ML breakdown 12/6/2019: Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store - a more technical paper about time series and Druid. 12/5/2019: An Introduction to Event Data Modeling Read a LOT more from Snowplow besides this article.  A lot.  So much.  We've been talking event tracking and streaming, so I was interested in their details. 12/4/2019: Why We Don't See Many Public GraphQL APIs 12/3/2019: A Beginner's Guide to the OKR Framework - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beginners-guide-okr-framework-ragavendran-madhusudanan/ OKR = Objectives and Key Results Company, team, and personal >> line of sight (in my old org) Not the how, the goal. Objectives: "ambitious, qualitative, time bound and actionable " Key results: numeric-based expressions of success or progress towards an objective.  No more than 4 per objective. My concerns...these are experiments.  And the boldest changes are true experiments with concrete demos in front of real customers.  See the Sprint book >> you might not know what you're going to produce until you dig in (so maybe the goal is to dig in before the quarter starts). Business specific.  Ambitious.  Less is more.  Not a task list.  Public.  Grade them mid-term.  Grade between 0 and 100 (0 and 1).  .6 to .7 is success! (woo, we are C to D students!) Cascading OKRs.  (line of sight) 12/2/2019: The Root Causes of Product Failure by Marty Cagan at Mind the Product San Francisco [49:14] - Ofeliya had me watch this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dccd8lihpQ 12/1/2019: