just bought the English version. Only half the price of the German version ... 🤷♂️
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reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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2026 Reading Goal
83% complete! Falko has read 5 of 6 books.
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Falko wants to read Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman
loppear started reading How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra

How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us
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He always kept the door of his office at Fine Hall open, and had a running bet with a colleague that if either caught the other working, the guilty party had to pay ten dollars. Von Neumann was never caught.
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 156)
The word is about Johnny von Neumann at Princeton ;)
Princeton undergraduates added a verse to the ever-evolving “Faculty Song”: "Here’s to Veblen, Oswald V., Lover of England and her tea; He built a country club for math, Where you can even take a bath."
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 151 - 152)
Admitting that “mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me,” Flexner tasked Veblen with the job of assembling his blue-ribbon herd.
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 150)
Hihi
When the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching commissioned him in 1910 to examine the state of American medical education, he personally visited every one of the 153 medical colleges in the United States and Canada, and found that all but a handful were little more than diploma mills, with no admission standards, no laboratories, no practical training, and no graduation requirements other than handing over a check.
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 146 - 147)
That was Abraham Flexner who later founded the institute for advanced studies at Princeton.
In order to succeed at that, organizations need stable teams and effective team patterns and interactions. They need to invest in empowered, skilled teams as the foundation for agility and adaptability. To stay alive in ever more competitive markets, organizations need teams and people who are able to sense when context changes and evolve accordingly.
— Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais (Page 31)
I only started reading the first page of the first chapter and find this summary of what I'm preaching since years.
Falko wants to read Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Falko wants to read Der Kern des Holocaust by Stephan Lehnstaedt
Falko wants to read On Operations by B. A. Friedman
Falko set a goal to read 8 books in 2024
The laboriousness of the methodology and notation was all too evident in the (often remarked) fact that it took more than seven hundred pages to reach the conclusion, “1 + 1 = 2”, a result which Russell and Whitehead described as “occasionally useful“.
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (29%)













