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  Zero to Engineer - The...

  Terry Kim

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  Zero to Engineer: The Unconventional Blueprint to Securing a 6-Figure IT Career is an intensely practical, no-nonsense guide to starting or rebooting your career in technology. Author and IT industry veteran Terry Kim gives you a first-person view of how to conquer the tech and cybersecurity realms, drawing on his own two decades' experience in the field.You'll learn how to get job-ready in less than four months, regardless of your educational background, and enjoy complimentary NGT Academy bonuses, including unlimited access to the CompTIA Network+ Certification Course, a free one-on-one career strategy session with trained IT career specialists, and membership in the Zero to Engineer Community Group.The book offers common and intuitive IT career pathways, showing you how to get from A-to-Z in the most direct way possible, as well as IT employment contract negotiation tips that make it easier to get your first six-figure job offer. Perfect for anyone interested in starting a brand-new and exciting career in technology, Zero to Engineer is also a must-listen for career changers and professionals interested in pivoting to a new job in tech.

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  Just Culture - Restoring Trust...

  Sidney Dekker

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  A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong. How do you respond to the people involved? What do you do to minimize the negative impact, and maximize learning? 
  This third edition of Sidney Dekkera (TM)s extremely successful Just Culture offers new material on restorative justice and ideas about why your people may be breaking rules. Supported by extensive case material, you will learn about safety reporting and honest disclosure, about retributive just culture and about the criminalization of human error. 
  Some suspect a just culture means letting people off the hook. Yet they believe they need to remain able to hold people accountable for undesirable performance. In this new edition, Dekker asks you to look at 'accountability' in different ways. One is by asking which rule was broken, who did it, whether that behavior crossed some line, and what the appropriate consequences should be. In this retributive sense, an 'account' is something you get people to pay, or settle. But who will draw that line? And is the process fair? 
  Another way to approach accountability after an incident is to ask who was hurt. To ask what their needs are. And to explore whose obligation it is to meet those needs. People involved in causing the incident may well want to participate in meeting those needs. In this restorative sense, an 'account' is something you get people to tell, and others to listen to. 
  Learn to look at accountability in different ways and your impact on restoring trust, learning and a sense of humanity in your organization could be enormous.

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  Leadership Moments from NASA -...

  Elizabeth Howell, Dr. Dave Williams

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  The NASA way: lessons on leadership, teamwork, and corporate culture. How does NASA take on seemingly insurmountable challenges, recover from tragedy and continue to attract the best and brightest talent?
  		 
  Space exploration is as much a story of leadership and teamwork as it is a story of exploration and discovery. Leadership Moments from NASA delves into the culture of the famed organization and examines the leadership styles and insights of NASA senior executives spanning five decades of human spaceflight to share the lessons they learned from critical moments. How did they prioritize? How did they resolve differences? How did they decide what to do when no one had done it before? How did they build highly competent teams? How did they build organizational resilience? How did they fight complacency and rebuild a culture of safety and innovation?
  		 
  Through the use of NASA oral histories and interviews, this book shows how NASA recovered from tragedy and adversity, and how it developed a culture of competency that continues to attract the best and brightest.

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  5 Books for Every DevOps...

  Tom Henricksen

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  If you want to jump into the DevOps space you need to understand the lingo. Here are 5 you must be familiar with:The GoalThe Phoenix ProjectContinuous DeliveryThe DevOps HandbookAccelerate  
  These five are summarized here to give you the DevOps terminology and understanding.

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  Quantum Gravity - Theories about...

  Steff Jaywan

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  Quantum gravity is a field of theoretical physics that aims to describe the gravitational force according to the principles of quantum mechanics. 
  General relativity, developed by Albert Einstein, describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy. It works extremely well at large scales, such as in predicting planetary orbits and the behavior of black holes. On the other hand, quantum mechanics deals with the fundamental behavior of particles at the smallest scales, such as atoms and subatomic particles. It incorporates principles like wave-particle duality, quantization, and uncertainty. 
  Despite their success, general relativity and quantum mechanics are fundamentally incompatible. General relativity treats gravity as a smooth, continuous field, while quantum mechanics relies on quantized fields and inherently probabilistic events. When attempting to describe situations where both quantum effects and strong gravitational effects are significant, such as in the vicinity of black holes or during the Big Bang, the theories conflict. Quantum gravity aims to unify these two frameworks. 
  Several approaches have been proposed to formulate a theory of quantum gravity. String theory proposes that fundamental particles are not point-like but instead one-dimensional "strings" that vibrate at different frequencies. This theory inherently includes gravity and attempts to unify all fundamental forces. Loop quantum gravity (LQG) focuses on quantizing spacetime itself, positing that spacetime has a discrete structure at the smallest scales and attempts to describe the quantum properties of spacetime directly, without relying on a background.

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  Surviving the 21st Century

  Saúl Alvídrez, Noam Chomsky,...

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  Explore freedom, power, and the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century with two extraordinary thinkersTwo world-renowned figures of contemporary politics come together to debate alternatives for the future: José "Pepe" Mujica, former President of Uruguay and an ex-guerrilla who acquired an international following for his message of sustainability and common sense, and Noam Chomsky, who revolutionized linguistics and has become a beacon for radical thinking around the world. From the meeting of these peerless figures emerge reflections on the major global issues of our time: climate change, corruption, populism, the crisis of capitalism, and the logic of the market economy, among many others. Speaking especially to younger generations who inherited an unstable world, Chomsky and Mujica emphasize the values required to survive the challenges of the twenty-first century and to build a new world: democracy, freedom, humility, and friendship. Brought together by Mexican activist Saúl Alvídrez, Chomsky and Mujica offer a wise and passionate guide to salvaging the future.

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