![]() ![]() ![]() After all, why perfect a product with features that are not yet validated? This only leads to costly redesign, including an additional final design cycle, which can be the most costly part of the development effort. However, when businesses adopt the "build-measure-learn" approach, it becomes clear that reaching for perfection too early in development actually contributes to a huge amount of waste. Prior to The Lean Startup, businesses (big and small) tended to seek perfection in development before customer testing (and certainly before launch). This principle is behind the product development philosophy espoused in the book. Takeaways From The 'Build-Measure-Learn' Approach Rather, this creates a climate of continuous innovation. ![]() Shortening our product development cycles doesn't compromise the quality of our work, either. According to Ries, the five main principles for creating lean startups (principles that also apply to established businesses) are:Īt my company, The Lean Startup approach - specifically, the "build-measure-learn" feedback loop - helps us learn faster, build faster and get a product into our customers' hands faster. ![]() But there's much more to lean startup methodology than simply trimming the fat, so to speak. In the minds of some, "going lean" is synonymous with eliminating waste. In short, The Lean Startup helped many companies - including my own - build a lasting foundation based on its principles. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you read only the the first few chapters of this book, you might think that Anne McCaffrey was a sexist, having bought into the myth that men are greater than women, etc. Only a few of the greatly diminished dragonriders even believe the threat will reappear. ![]() The threat of Threads from the rogue red star is a long ago memory-turned-to-myth-turned-to-disbelief. These men fly from hold to hold assessing the available ladies for personality and mental abilities. This book opens with the dragonriders on search as the single Queen dragon has laid a Queen egg. On Pern, there is an aging fuedal system of strongholds (containing the farmers, the craftsmen, and some of the ruling humans) and the dragon weyrs (containing the dragonriders, their winged steeds, and support personnel) which are granted tithes of food and other products by the surrounding strongholds. There is so much going on in this book, which was first published as two novellas and later smushed together into one coherent tale. I loved this book as a kid and I love it again as an adult. Who I Recommended This To: Dragons + Science = WIN! Who doesn’t want to read this? Where I Got It: Own it…since like I was 12. Why I Read It: There was this group read hosted by Stainless Steel Droppings. ![]() This is Heldig’s better side, especially when she is cranky. ![]() ![]() ![]() This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling, punctuation, and five common emendations introduced from the Second ("Good") Quarto (italicised). Even so, Hamlet seems to consider himself alone and there is no definite indication that the others hear him before he addresses Ophelia, so the speech is almost universally regarded as a soliloquy. Hamlet is not alone as he speaks because Ophelia is on stage waiting for him to see her and Claudius and Polonius have concealed themselves to hear him. The opening line is one of the most widely known and quoted lines in modern English literature, and the speech has been referenced in many works of theatre, literature, and music. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, weighing the pain and unfairness of life against the alternative, which might be worse. ![]() " To be, or not to be" is the opening phrase of a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. Comparison of the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in the first three editions of Hamlet, showing the varying quality of the text in the Bad Quarto, the Good Quarto and the First Folio ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, in the city night, they dream they're caught The Great Migration, but people are not birds. Through pink sundrops and fox grass, an emphatic sentence Was walk south, toward warmth, you come to home before the war.Īt home there was a dirt track by the paved road, worn down There was him, and the man who hated the cold and the brick factoryĪnd the one room with fifteen people he couldn't remember. In Chile, rain was somewhere else, not falling everywhere At the bus stop bench, she sat next toĪ man who hated spring, its thunderhead clouds, its green. The ground's not strewn with glass, like here. Until last year every dream I had happened there. The girl replies: We moved up here when I was eight. The place where I was a white girl sitting in a dusty car with the window rolled down, looking at you. The place where you were one of five half-naked children playing in the dirt under a porch. How to begin with the young woman next to her asking: Where? To have words like crema de leche on her tongue at leastįor a few weeks before tasting the bitter syllables of their history. She'd come for brand-new words: las flores rojas, el puente. ![]() ![]() The third question in Spanish class is: De donde eres tu? United States gives that approval because of the South." World, thrives upon the approval of the United States, and the Imperialism, the exploitation of colored labor throughout the ".paid for at a price which literally staggers humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() A major task of Creative Evolution is to reconcile these two elements. Yet as Bergson brilliantly shows, the intellect’s fragmentary and action- oriented nature, which he likens to the cinematograph, means it alone cannot grasp nature’s creativity and invention over time. ![]() Whilst this impulse remains as forms of life diverge and multiply, human life is characterized by a distinctive form of consciousness or intellect. For Bergson, all life emerges from a creative, shared impulse, which he famously terms élan vital and which passes like a current through different organisms and generations over time. ![]() ![]() This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred years, brings one of Bergson’s most important and ambitious works to a new generation of readers.Ī sympathetic though critical reader of Darwin, Bergson argues in Creative Evolution against a mechanistic, reductionist view of evolution. First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson’s L’évolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the boundary between fact and fable is blurred by a troubling statistic: occasionally, women do go missing. Thank you so much, and for having me on this tour. ![]() □□□□□ on my blog where the author answers a few questions for us. □□□□□! The Hollow Gods is book 1 in The Chaos Cycle Duology, where a maelstrom of ancient grudges, forgotten traumas, and deadly secrets loom in the foggy forests of Black Hollow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gray as the saviour of their marriages and his book as the brick that finally knocks some sense into their mates" Washington Times "When I was 21 and freshly dumped by Harry, my first really grown-up boyfriend, where did I turn but John Gray's Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus? It was reassuring to know the reason I'd been dumped wasn't because I was rubbish in bed" New Woman "Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus has shed light on countless relationship problems, offering an explanation for many social inequalities!a hot topic of debate in households and offices throughout the world" Although it takes some time to adjust to his slightly nasal tone, the information is sound and gives both men and women helpful hints on improving themselves and their union. ![]() In this unabridged version, Gray gives a spirited delivery of his message, especially when role-playing typical male/female interactions. ![]() Relationship counselor John Gray focuses on the differences between men and women-men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, after all-and offers a simple solution: couples must acknowledge and accept these differences before they can develop happier relationships. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story’s essential open-endedness, of course, is one of the reasons that it has become so famous. She has chosen a nameless little village to show, in microcosm, how the forces of belligerence, persecution, and vindictiveness are, in mankind, endless and traditional and that their targets are chosen without reason.” The standard response that The New Yorker‘s Kip Orr sent to letter-writers was only slightly less vague: “Miss Jackson’s story can be interpreted in half a dozen different ways. There are many ways to read “The Lottery.” Jackson herself famously refused to give her editors at The New Yorker an explanation for the text, even when the story received record letters and phone calls, many from readers horrified and desperate to understand the story’s meaning. ![]() But unfortunately, the comparison doesn’t stop at the weather. ![]() “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.” So begins the most famous and widely anthologized of Shirley Jackson’s short stories, “The Lottery.” (the story’s date was chosen to correspond with its 1948 publication in The New Yorker). That June 27th sounds rather like this June 27th (full-summer, profuse blossoming, etc.) at least from where I’m sitting. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A boy of about eight years old was standing behind me with his father. “There was a rather rotund woman in line ahead of me in one of those electric carts,” he explains. “That created a few complex problems, the least of which was where to go from there.”Īs with so many good ideas, it needed that certain moment to make it spring to life, and for Barker, that was in the line at the grocery store back in 2014. “I decided that the killer should die at the beginning of the story,” he says. The question that forms in the reader’s mind is one that Barker asked himself when the intriguing premise first occurred to him. Barker’s THE FOURTH MONKEY, a gripping and pacey read that has the killer, literally, under a bus in the first pages. ![]() ![]() There are plenty of serial killer thrillers out there, but probably not so many where the murderer dies as an opener. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s very dreary.Ī Canadian Girl, No, not a good sign at all. ![]() A lot of the book is about their relationship, so hopefully that will make up for it.īookish Hobbit, He’s far from the traditional Hades, that’s for sure. I hope you do enjoy it if you decide to read it.īookworm1858, I was disappointed by the Greek mythology, though maybe I just didn’t know enough to catch everything? You might really like Henry then. Natalie, I did like her writing, and….I think with proper expectations about the tests/gods and if you like Sensitive Guys you’ll probably like it.
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