The only business book I’ve read is that one about management by the CEO of Intel (I forget the name). It helped me a lot with my first big corporate client because until then I had only worked at startups and small businesses. I literally didn’t understand what the purpose of meetings was, etc. Anyway, I haven’t been compelled to pick up any other business books as most of the popular ones seem like self/help books.

It does help quite a bit with SEO if done right

CS department at my alma mater was very, very theoretical and we were encouraged to just write code in text editors. After that I got into programming for CAD software which had rudimentary editors as well. Basically I just memorized a bunch of stuff and always had a second monitor with the docs open. These days I use autocomplete but I still largely code the same way, and for better or worse I’m set in my ways — at least when I’m using libraries I’m familiar with. If I’m messing around with something completely new then sure, I’ll make extensive use of autocomplete.

Some good posts here. Another term to look into is auralization (often discussed in reference to room acoustics). I have done some research into architectural acoustics and real-time audio rendering tools and am happy to discuss further (though it is a big field and I definitely don’t know it all), anyone reading this should feel free to shoot me a message.

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I consult for manufacturers and fabrication shops. In my experience there aren’t really centralized repositories of info for this stuff like there is in tech. It took me a while to get my head around it, and many years of talking to people and visiting their facilities, to realize that knowledge just doesn’t seem to be organized the same way in manufacturing as it is in tech. Most of the good stuff I’ve learned through conversations with guys running these facilities, not through some central knowledge base. I’d love to be proven wrong though if someone has a good set of resources out these...

It doesn’t help that the knowledge in this industry is 1) held by people who statistically are less online than software engineers 2) are closely guarded “trade secrets” (job security!) 3) is in one of those “is more art than science” fields where the knowledge gained is hyperspecific

Ironically, much of this sounds like a high-end residential client. At least in software you get paid decently. Source: have worked in arch and tech.

I used a semi-scripted workflow in google sheets until things got too complicated. After that, quickbooks.

I pretty much never read the jacket copy until I’ve finished the book. It’s not so much about spoilers as it is about falling into a normative interpretation of the text.

If you keep a list on your phone of interesting-sounding authors and comb used book stores you’ll rarely run out of options.

The jacket copy for Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice is far and away the best I’ve ever read — not surprising that he wrote it himself.

Sadly, has been a shell of itself for many many years.

I’m an author and I never hear this, what I hear is “only writers subscribe to lit fic magazines.”