It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work Book Cover It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson,
Business & Economics
HarperCollins
October 2, 2018
240

This is a quick, must read.

Chaos should not be the norm.

They run 6 weeks on, 2 weeks off projects. Sprints/release cycle for 6, 2 weeks to review and plan the next 6 weeks.

They don't use goals. They don't set targets for the sake of setting a target. They don't have a product road map. Promises lead to rushing. Promises pile up like debt and they accrue interest.

They opt for depth not breadth.

CALM REQUIRES GETTING COMFORTABLE WITH ENOUGH.

 

 

America Before

America Before Book Cover America Before
Graham Hancock
Body, Mind & Spirit
St. Martin's Press
April 23, 2019
496

Hancock challenges the archaeological orthodoxy's view that North and South America were the last places to be settled by humans.

Hancock posits a theory that an ancient globally distributed system of ASTRO-ARCHITECTURE that created monuments on the ground which mimic patterns of certain constellations in the sky. Since before he wrote Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock has been searching for a lost ancient high civilization.

The design of the sacred architecture of the world is ruled by geometry. Hancock uses Richard Dawkins' term "meme" to describe this system of behavior being passed from one individual to the other.

Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Angkor Wat, Serpent Mound, Ohio - all are concerned with deliberate orientation to the sky - some honor the solstices. Architectural, astronomical, geometrical memes across different parts of the world AND across many different time periods.

A quote from the book:

"Contrary to the mainstream, my broad conclusion is that an advanced global seafaring civilization existed during the Ice Age, that it mapped the earth as it looked then with stunning accuracy, and that it had solved the problem of longitude, which our own civilization failed to do until the invention of Harrison’s marine chronometer in the late eighteenth century. As masters of celestial navigation, as explorers, as geographers, and as cartographers, therefore, this lost civilization of 12,800 years ago was not outstripped by Western science until less than 300 years ago at the peak of the Age of Discovery."

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

The Hero with a Thousand Faces Book Cover The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
Psychology
New World Library
2008
418

I don't know why it took me so long to read this book. It is excellent. All the myths, all the legends, all the....stories follow a basic formula. Campbell shares the format and shows the connections between them all. Buddha, Jesus, Odinson....all the same format. All the same "Hero's Journey".