@norootcause@hachyderm.io on mastodon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Probably Henry Petroski, although my vote would go to Samuel Florman, who wrote the excellent books: * The civilized engineer * The existential pleasures of engineering https://t.co/xIvnkUAVt7

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@n_travaglini I have Lansing’s “Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali” on my bookshelf but I haven’t started it yet. I didn’t know he had written multiple books!

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@JopHavinga Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State By Maura Dykstra

@norootcause@hachyderm.io on mastodon

Probably Henry Petroski, although my vote would go to Samuel Florman, who wrote the excellent books: * The civilized engineer * The existential pleasures of engineering https://t.co/xIvnkUAVt7

@norootcause@hachyderm.io on mastodon

Has anybody read "Engineering Culture" by Gideon Kunda? It's an ethnographic study inside of an unspecified U.S.-based tech company. The study was done around 1987, and the company was acquired in '99, and I'm really curious about what company it actually was.

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@ReinH @Di4naO @rethinkdns @apenwarr @ekuber @AngerMCS I must admit that I did not know that origin. I chose the blog name as a riff on the title of the book “Surfing Uncertainty” by the philosopher Andy Clark.

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@norootcause@hachyderm.io on mastodon

Has anybody read "Engineering Culture" by Gideon Kunda? It's an ethnographic study inside of an unspecified U.S.-based tech company. The study was done around 1987, and the company was acquired in '99, and I'm really curious about what company it actually was.

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> "If we all only had twenty minutes to hit a Roger Clemens fast ball." From the book "Dead Reckoning" by Diane Vaughan https://t.co/MqplSWdArA 2/2

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Apparent affinity – the claim that we can handle X because X is like Y and we're able to handle Y. Source: Mission Improbable by Lee Clarke

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Why did they make Scrooge McDuck Scottish? Ebenezer Scrooge is not explicitly Scottish in Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Is he a nod to the Scottish robber baron Andrew Carnegie?