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Books in the Box III

Oxide and Friends

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The History of the American Nuclear Arsenal

Mckowski: I have an elevator pitch for two different titles that kind of come from the sort of Cantrellian world of like organizational behavior that leads to terrible engineering outcomes. The first is California Burning by Catherine Blunt, a Wall Street Journal reporter and that is a deep dive into the history of PG and E. "There's a great sort of, um, metaphor for tech debt in your engineering projects," Mckowski says.

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