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For better or worse, fiction is among the most effective tools in humanity’s tool kit.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Not to be confused with the good practice of up-front design, BDUF is the practice of designing everything up front before implementing anything at all. Building architects have to do BDUF because it is not feasible to make radical architectural changes to a large physical structure once construction is well underway.19 Although software has its own physics,20 it is economically feasible to make radical change, if the structure of the software separates its concerns effectively.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
Realizing how this moment of your life is actually a moment of eternity, and experiencing the eternal aspect of what you’re doing in the temporal experience—this is the mythological experience.
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
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