If I knew of a book that explained my job I’d read it myself.
Ditto!
As a librarian, this question tickles me.
Got any good books on librarian science?
"bullshit jobs" by David Graeber
Excel for Dummies 2023
The Phoenix Project
This is the book I had in mind when I created this thread. :)
I'm sure this is unpopular, but I hate that book with Mrs.White-level hatred.
I'm so glad there are people like you who do things like this so I don't have to.
Ha, this was going to be my answer as well
Microchip Fabrication by van Zant. Specifically chapters 8 and 10 discussing photolithography. Might be different chapters in current version.
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Textbooks
Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton!
Is there a book for The Big Lebowski? 🤔
It actually is a very loose adaptation/inspired by the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep.
So kind of?
Makers by Cory Doctorow
I'm a supervisor in a machine and welding shop so I would pick Carl Vernon's " Surrounded By Morons Make the Most of it. "
The US Federal code of regulations. Im a US customs broker. At 50 titles and sometimes 100s of pages per title if not thousands, it’d be quite the read in one go!
Edit: I just checked, it changes pretty regularly, usually stands somewhere around 90 thousand pages. The specific code on customs brokers is title 19 part 111. But really the whole thing is specific to my job in one way or another. I’ve never actually read the entire thing personally as it’s practically impossible. I look up whatever I need to as needed.
Kanski's clinical ophthalmology; https://shop.elsevier.com/books/kanskis-clinical-ophthalmology/salmon/978-0-7020-7711-1
ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook, 2021 edition.
What do you do? My honey is an ashraer.
I'm a mechanical engineer.
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
The Design of Everyday Things.
Ux designer or product manager?
Designer. :)
James Dukeminier’s “Property”
The House of God
As someone going into conservation I'd probably just throw a copy Nat Geo at them or something. If we were talking about shows/movies I'd go with Wildcat, even if it is a depressing documentary.
Bastard Operator from Hell
The Linux and Unix System Administration Handbook (6th edition)
Between the lines
It’s a book that takes the theory out of acoustic design and loudspeaker placement / management, and says “Life sucks, it’s never perfect, let’s make it suck less.”
