{"id":4191,"date":"2020-01-09T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2020-01-09T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:40:49","slug":"book-club-engineering-team-stealing-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/book-club-engineering-team-stealing-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Book club in our engineering team \u2013 Stealing Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>TL;DR<\/h2>\n<p>In this short post I\u2019ll tell you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how we implemented our fourth book club idea in our engineering team<\/li>\n<li>what book we read<\/li>\n<li>how we liked it,<\/li>\n<li>and share a few key takeaways<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read all about our other book clubs here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/how-we-implemented-the-book-club-idea-in-our-engineering-team-2pn1\">1st &#8211; The Phoenix Project<\/a> (has way more info on how we&#8217;re doing it)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/book-club-in-our-engineering-team-it-doesn-t-have-to-be-crazy-at-work-5f71\">2nd &#8211; It doesn&#8217;t have to be crazy at work<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/nikola\/book-club-in-our-engineering-team-pragmatic-programmer-3a53\">3rd &#8211; Pragmatic Programmer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\n  \u26a0\ufe0f If you&#8217;re thinking that there&#8217;s no time to read the books, check this post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/math-behind-reading-30-books-per-year\/\">math behind reading 30 books per year<\/a>. If you think that this <strong>book club thing is cool<\/strong>, and you&#8217;d want to be a part of the group that&#8217;s &#8216;allowed&#8217; to read &#8216;on the job&#8217;, shoot me an email \ud83d\udc4d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>THE BOOK<\/h2>\n<p>This time we read the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37JijRg\">Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Amazon and Goodreads ratings:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com\/i\/ai5d1u1yag750zaol71v.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>DATA POINTS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>avg(time to read) = <strong>10<\/strong> hours<\/li>\n<li>avg(liked the book) = <strong>6.1<\/strong> \/ 10<\/li>\n<li>avg(liked the book club) = <strong>8.7<\/strong> \/ 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com\/i\/v5sddynyqbbnrh1oxssi.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In general, we didn&#8217;t quite like the book, and there was even a vote to stop and switch to another one. In the end, we persevered and thus such a high score for the book club itself.<\/p>\n<h2>KEY TAKEAWAYS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>We find the book interesting, but also really scary as it left us wondering what the 1% of 1% are doing to achieve the flow state<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A good part of what we\u2019re habitually doing online is more to forget ourselves for a moment than inform ourselves for the long haul<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time (and how to make the most of it) appears to be about five times more important to us than making love or money<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These days, we\u2019re drowning in information, but starving for motivation.<\/li>\n<li>When a Harvard Medical School study confronted patients with lifestyle-related diseases that would kill them if they didn\u2019t alter their behavior (type 2 diabetes, smoking, atherosclerosis, etc.), 87 percent couldn\u2019t avoid this sentence. <strong>Turns out, we\u2019d rather die than change.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Eric Schmidt became Google\u2019s CEO because he attended Burning Man<\/li>\n<li><strong>We process more information when unconscious<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Surfing can get you in the flow state<\/li>\n<li><strong>This book is like a commercial for drugs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Eight weeks of meditation training measurably sharpened focus and cognition<\/li>\n<li><strong>If coffee isn\u2019t considered cheating, what makes smart drugs any different?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Animals seek out drugs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slack prevents us from reaching (and staying in) the flow state<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It costs $25,000 to turn an average Joe into a combat-ready U.S. Marine.<\/li>\n<li>In 2014, EDM represented almost half of all concert sales, attracting a quarter of a million concertgoers at a time and drawing the attention of Wall Street investors and major private equity firms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eight weeks of meditation training measurably sharpened focus and cognition<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Absolutely terrified knowing the final outcome of the Pied Piper story<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stimulating the front part of the lobe causes visions of God<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR In this short post I\u2019ll tell you: how we implemented our fourth book club idea in our engineering team what book we read how we liked it,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}