I spent my career in IT so the ideas of waterfall vs agile project management were not new to me. I lived through both.
This book is full of amazing in
I spent my career in IT so the ideas of waterfall vs agile project management were not new to me. I lived through both.
This book is full of amazing insight into the way government works. There are great footnotes. The print version has an index. The list of supplemental reading should be part of the training for all legislators. My opinion: legislation should identify desired results, method to verify results and end program if not met statement.Legislators and their helpers should not detail the nuts and bolts, order of operation, or how thick the gold plating has to be.
The book was written before Trump II and DOGE. A sequel? I can see how the mindset that leads to the over specified, over priced purchases in the military does not work for software.
The current attacks on 'independent agencies' staffed by non-partisan 'experts' is one way congress has tried to handle the obvious problem that legislation cannot specify every solution for every problem that will arise in a program. Political spoiler: too bad that approach is under attack.
I did not agree with every solution the author proposed but I commend her for thoroughness and depth of research.
Slow intro then to quote Nicky: "This book is mostly a very readable account of some of the standard weird things your brain does." As it is slightly Slow intro then to quote Nicky: "This book is mostly a very readable account of some of the standard weird things your brain does." As it is slightly older now I would be interested in seeing the latest status of some of the research he cites. I know this is never possible even in electronic books.
A lot of the book is on the law. Who are you and when are you responsible? Is responsibility the question that the law should pursue? This part was also known to me and rather repetitive.
Important book just not for me.
P.S. one of the best typos I have ever seen in a quote from Martha Farah author of Neuroethics: "unflabbale temperaments"...more
Sad and frustrating. I am completely up on depression and the effects on the family. The music examples were unintelligible to me (old person). Some oSad and frustrating. I am completely up on depression and the effects on the family. The music examples were unintelligible to me (old person). Some of the filler philosophy did not make sense. The white guilt and homosexuality seemed like gratuitous spice....more
Life at the turn of the century from a female point of view. Fictional description of women in the development of the Oxford English Dictionary. Slow Life at the turn of the century from a female point of view. Fictional description of women in the development of the Oxford English Dictionary. Slow start but worth reading. Read for the subject not the writing....more
Thank you Cecily very satisfying short story - people do not seem to get any smarter in fiction or real life. Link to read . If it doesn't work justThank you Cecily very satisfying short story - people do not seem to get any smarter in fiction or real life. Link to read . If it doesn't work just search for title and author. I found it on many sites....more
Sweeping, overwhelming, repetitive, overly complicated, occasionally chronological with lots of looping back and sweeping from continent to continent.Sweeping, overwhelming, repetitive, overly complicated, occasionally chronological with lots of looping back and sweeping from continent to continent. Lots of well known authors put down. Obscure authors brought forward. Footnotes begin on page 998 out of 1386 (ebook pages). There were many interesting things buried in here. I wish there were lots of smaller, more focused books to bring these into the educational texts. I guess this book was for professionals, not me....more
Exaggerated but fundamentally true. Women were very circumscribed. No child or dog was as smart as the ones in this story but I loved them. The small Exaggerated but fundamentally true. Women were very circumscribed. No child or dog was as smart as the ones in this story but I loved them. The small cast of characters merged and reemerged with the sorts of coincidences only found in silly fiction but it rounded out all the backstories. Funny and empowering and just what I needed to read....more
Omnibus, massive, wide ranging. Begins with slavery in the future United States and ends before the Civil War. Much of it will be known to anyone who Omnibus, massive, wide ranging. Begins with slavery in the future United States and ends before the Civil War. Much of it will be known to anyone who has been 'taught' U.S. history. There were graphic details on slavery. Read those before. Lots on the politics behind various decisions.
The important part was the financial point of view: land speculation, early banking, credit on individual slaves, corrupt fiscal practices, the world wide scope of investment in the cotton industry which means the slave industry, the extent to which industry growth led to the strength of all parts of the country and other countries.
Some facts: - - - As of 1807, four out of every five people who came from the Old Word to the New had come from Africa, not Europe..
- - - By 1818 there were more than 10k slaves in Missouri
- - - The Underground railroad - estimated under a thousand people were successfully smuggled. John Hope Franklin & Lorent Schweniger Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (NR 1999) p.279
- - - At least five states clearly counted free African Americans as citizens in 1790 when the constitution was ratified
Proponents of slavery stopped many anti-slavery attempts by giving impossible?? choices - moral high ground vs 1) economic slowdown, 2) disunion 3) defeat in national election, 4) opportunity for a transcontinental RR. The abolition movement was not solely an awakening of moral awakening. It was a gradual calculation of self-interests.
If the book had been boiled down to the capitalism I would recommend to anyone. I admit I skimmed a lot of the formation of political parties and legal history....more
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