I’m not 100% bought on the veracity of the facts detailed in this book, which may be due to the narrative, but these are definitely deep insights about modern imperialism in the form of confessions.

Which end up making more sense than expected.

Worth a read for those that are skeptic of intentions behind ‘good acts’.

Fast-paced and never boring.

Romero and Carmack, as like other duos that have transformed industries and made history, these guys rose via innovation and technical genius only to let the extremes of their eccentricities take over and bring down the companies (and drive) they had created.

This is not a how-to guide on DevOps and does not portray a realistic timeline for business change.

What it is, is a great resource to understand how the DevOps practices and areas impact business performance, by turning the complex terminology and concepts into a narrative.

Basically, if you are in a business that heavily relies on information technologies, operations and development, this is a great book for you.

I used to think of Linus Torvalds as a mystical genius that single handedly built a whole revolutionary operating system.

It just turns out to be one of the most grounded and simple-philosophy minded, remarkable people, who just worked with passion on something to solve what he saw problems for him.

The success of Linux is just a side effect of him trying to fix holes in the road.

And what for me is the major side effect of his way of thinking in practice: the rise of open source.

Fun story, although it reaches his history to around 2000’s. It would be great to have his continuation of the more recent decade, with the prominence of his other major creation: Git.

Not only for people in a hurry, it’s also astrophysics for mortals.

“The cosmic perspective”, a concept that we as a species have yet to internalize if we want to perpetuate our kind as part of this universe.

The book itself is a great introduction to an exciting -and fundamental- science.

A realistic and entertaining compilation of short stories which describe what people living in Caracas experience almost daily. Each story is portrayed with the city’s colloquialism and with the moral background that constantly threatens to tear the citizens apart. It’s done in a concise way, without unnecessary adjectives. Citizens of Caracas will relate with the overwhelming stories of violence, which are a part of a distorted culture.

Recommended read in Spanish.