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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.
In an Oxide and Friends tradition, Bryan and Adam invite the community to share book recommendations.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on included Steve Klabnik, Tom Lyon, Ian Grunert, Owen Anderson, phillipov, makowski, and saethlin. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Some of the other books mentioned in the Discord channel:
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