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I would recommend everyone read Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards Heuer

Blurb from amazon: The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis has been required reading for intelligence officers studying the art and science of intelligence analysis for decades. Richards Heuer, Jr. discusses in the book how fundamental limitations in human mental processes can prompt people to jump to conclusions and employ other simplifying strategies that lead to predictably faulty judgments known as cognitive biases. These analytic mindsets cannot be avoided, but they can be overcome through the application of more structured and rigorous analytic techniques including the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses.

Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock

Completely changed how I look at political and financial pundits.

Robert Erdmann's keynote at PyCon: https://youtu.be/z_hm5oX7ZlE

The talk centers around Erdmann's use of python in "combining materials science, computer science, and imaging science to help the world access, preserve, and understand its cultural heritage".

The technical complexity and nuance that went into the project was truly jaw-dropping. This was the first talk I immediately felt the urge to share with multiple co-workers & friends.

Two pretty good programming newsletters

Pointer - http://www.pointer.io/

Better Dev - https://betterdev.link/