A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Our ego is a fiction of stable self-hood which maintains itself by perpetuating the distinctions of "what I am/what I am not, what I like/what I don't like", beliefs about ones politics, religion, gender preference, degree of free will, race, subculture etc all help maintain a stable sense of self. - Hine, Phil (2009a). *Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic*.
Chaos Magic - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
As has been proven time and again, the further the distance between the person doing the work (i.e., the change implementer) and the person deciding to do the work (i.e., the change authorizer), the worse the outcome.
The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren
Stories ignite the mind while probability puts us to sleep,