A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can’t live without it.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Arbuckle concluded that “the actual compliance of an organization is in direct proportion to the degree to which its policies are expressed as code.”
The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren
She turned toward the streetlight, then looked away. But ... was she really turning Zaleh’s head, or had she merely grown more adept at manipulating her own copy of the world, as her mind reconstructed it? Either way, Zaleh’s eyes were still closed, and Ruth didn’t dare imagine opening them.