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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .

Gall’s Law states that if you want a complex system to work, build a simpler system first, then improve over time. The Kessel Run coalition did just that by applying the Strangler Fig Pattern, otherwise known as the Encasement Strategy, to incrementally and iteratively implement more modern software systems and processes at twenty-two physical locations, each with their own software and hardware, while keeping the whole system working.

The DevOps Handbook

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren

Because of the logical gap between reality and appearance, a gap we cannot close because knowledge of reality is always mediated by the fallible bodily senses, there is no way of proving that things are really one way rather than another.

Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers

Philip Stokes

The third and deepest layer is changing your identity. This level is concerned with changing your beliefs: your worldview, your self-image, your judgments about yourself and others. Most of the beliefs, assumptions, and biases you hold are associated with this level.

Atomic Habits

James Clear

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