Tuesday, December 03, 2019

December 2019 Reading

December reading...
  • 12/31/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer
  • 12/30/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer
  • 12/29/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer
  • 12/28/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer
  • 12/27/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer
  • 12/26/2019: Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer
  • 12/11/2019 - 12/25/2019: "I Remember Nothing" - Anne Billson, The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 11 (2019) ed. by Ellen Datlow  and all the following.  Ellen's recommendation in this volume is what got me to read Rutger's The Anomaly last month which I really enjoyed.  I ordered one or two other of her recommendations as well, although my current queue is like 20 books lone.
    • Monkeys on the Beach by Ralph Robert Moore
    • Painted Wolves by Ray Cluley
    • Shit Happens   by Michael Marshall Smith
      • I enjoyed this one - I get along with his writing style.
    • You Know How the Story Goes by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
    • Back Along the Old Track by Sam Hicks
    • Masks by Peter Sutton
    • The Donner Party by Dale Bailey
      • Interesting alt history, although I intuited the ending far in advance.
    • Milkteeth  by Kristi DeMeester
    • Haak by John Langan
      • Maybe my favorite.  Peter Pan alternative.  Genuinely Cthulhu lore style.
    • Thin Cold Hands by Gemma Files
    • A Tiny Mirror by Eloise C. C. Shepherd
    • I Love You Mary-Grace by Amelia Mangan
    • The Jaws of Ouroboros by Steve Toase
      • More scifi than horror in my opinion, but scary scifi, I'll give it that.
    • A Brief Moment of Rage by Bill Davidson
    • Golden Sun  by Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters, and Michael Wehunt
    • White Mare by Thana Niveau
    • Girls Without Their Faces On by Laird Barron
    • Thumbsucker  by Robert Shearman
    • You Are Released by Joe Hill
      • End of the world tale.  More realism than horror story.
    • Red Rain  by Adam-Troy Castro
    • Split Chain Stitch by Steve Toase
    • No Exit by Orrin Grey
    • Haunt  by Siobhan Carroll
    • Sleep  by Carly Holmes
  • 12/10/2019: Challenging SQL on Hadoop Performance with Apache Druid
  • 12/9/2019: Basic Druid documentation
  • 12/8/2019: Accessing data using Apache Druid (Hortonworks)
  • 12/7/2019: Introduction to TWO approaches of content-based Recommendation System - not my favorite ML breakdown
  • 12/6/2019: Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store - a more technical paper about time series and Druid.
  • 12/5/2019: An Introduction to Event Data Modeling
    • Read a LOT more from Snowplow besides this article.  A lot.  So much.  We've been talking event tracking and streaming, so I was interested in their details.
  • 12/4/2019: Why We Don't See Many Public GraphQL APIs
  • 12/3/2019: A Beginner's Guide to the OKR Framework - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beginners-guide-okr-framework-ragavendran-madhusudanan/
    • OKR = Objectives and Key Results
    • Company, team, and personal >> line of sight (in my old org)
    • Not the how, the goal.
    • Objectives: "ambitious, qualitative, time bound and actionable "
    • Key results: numeric-based expressions of success or progress towards an objective.  No more than 4 per objective.
    • My concerns...these are experiments.  And the boldest changes are true experiments with concrete demos in front of real customers.  See the Sprint book >> you might not know what you're going to produce until you dig in (so maybe the goal is to dig in before the quarter starts).
    • Business specific.  Ambitious.  Less is more.  Not a task list.  Public.  Grade them mid-term.  Grade between 0 and 100 (0 and 1).  .6 to .7 is success! (woo, we are C to D students!)
    • Cascading OKRs.  (line of sight)
  • 12/2/2019: The Root Causes of Product Failure by Marty Cagan at Mind the Product San Francisco [49:14] - Ofeliya had me watch this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dccd8lihpQ
  • 12/1/2019:

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