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There is a common business aphorism: “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” True. But you had better be darn sure that what you are measuring is really what you are trying to manage.
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
Shane worried about the weirdest things.
The Long Game
Rachel Reid
In 1964, at Prince William Sound in Alaska, one of the largest glacial fields in North America was hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded on the continent. It measured 9.2 on the Richter scale. Along the fault line, the land rose by as much as twenty feet. The quake was so violent, in fact, that it made water slosh out of pools in Texas.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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