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Ask HN: What are you reading?

467 points · 883 comments · dan-bailey

  1. rdoherty · · focus · HN ↗
    I love reading, here's a few meatier books I've read recently:

    * Seeing Like a State - great overview of how states (and corporations) lose visibility into reality due to the abstraction levels they operate at

    * Normal Accidents - all about how things like nuclear reactors, ships and large systems naturally have accidents

    * Managing the Unexpected: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty - great easy read about how high reliability organizations manage complexity and dangerous, high tempo situations.

    1. bookofjoe · · focus · HN ↗
      "Normal Accidents" is a profound, mind-bending book. I lectured on it during Anesthesiology Grand Rounds [University of Virginia School of Medicine], using it as an armature with which to view the making of disasters in the OR.
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