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@AprilynneAlter There’s this wonderful Ted talk by Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray Love) about this exact topic. https://t.co/wxPK6f4jbg

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The key question is will this ever change? Will we find better ways to integrate data across multiple domains and systems without shipping it to a central location? The only alternative I’m aware of is proposed by Dave McComb in the book “The Data Centric Revolution”

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I’ve been reading a book that explains a logical way of thinking about problems, called The Logical Thinking Process by H William Dettmer. The book is based on Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints and the processes he came up with to solve business problems. https://t.co/Zyk3rc4pFp

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@asanwal Gene Kim also has another one following the Phoenix Project called The Unicorn Project

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In his book “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” Scott Adams introduces the concept of a skill stack. The idea is that a combination of good-enough skills beats expertise in a single skill.

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There’s an interesting story about creating a data driven culture from scratch buried in chapter 8 of an unassuming book called Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg. It goes like this:

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@asanwal Gene Kim also has another one following the Phoenix Project called The Unicorn Project

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Many thanks to Joe Reis and Matt Housley for writing “Fundamentals of Data Engineering” You can find a lot more details there.