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Programming<\/h2>\n

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This week I’m trying out another Haskell intro book, Get Programming with Haskell<\/em> by Will Kurt.<\/strong> Chapters 4 and 5 of Haskell Programming from First Principles<\/em> slowed me way down, and the pace wasn’t going to work for my time frame. Plus my frustration with the book was growing. I hope to keep working through it, but I need a tour of the language that’s less abstract. After several obsessive hours of research this weekend, I have some more options, and I’ll start with Will Kurt.<\/p>\n

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Kanban<\/em> by David Anderson offers a quantitative approach to process improvement.<\/strong> It’s tied with Lean Software Development<\/em> for my favorite Agile book so far. I’m looking forward to finding all my bottlenecks and setting my work-in-progress limits.<\/p>\n

Space<\/h2>\n

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Space Is Open for Business<\/em> by Robert Jacobson is a wide-ranging and inspiring survey of the present and future of the global space economy.<\/strong> Especially interesting were the chapters on the influence of science fiction. The book sparked more thoughts on how I might involve myself in space someday. In the meantime, it gives me a broader basis for researching how to keep track of this field.<\/p>\n

I watched the SpaceX Inspiration4<\/a> charity space launch benefiting St. Jude Children’s Hospital.<\/strong> I haven’t really been keeping up with launches lately, so I caught it by accident, and it was worth sticking around for, a beautiful launch<\/a>, complete with jellyfish effect<\/a>. It was the first all-civilian spaceflight. Imagine having a day job and then moonlighting\u2014as an astronaut<\/em>. One of the crew, Hayley Arceneaux, is a physician’s assistant at St. Jude and a childhood cancer survivor. I think as a fundraiser it was very well done.<\/p>\n

Religion<\/h2>\n

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I’m putting Christianity in context with Introduction to World Religions<\/em>, edited by Christopher Partridge.<\/strong> I was planning on putting off my next religious investigations until I’d looked more into rationality, but events have led me into counter-apologetics YouTube<\/a>, and my boss has been luring me into the world of David Bentley Hart. I’ll check out his Experience of God<\/em> at some point. But for now I want to get the broad sweep of religious thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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