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Work
The Career Growth Paradox: You Are Being Promoted Into a Job You Will Be Bad At, On Purpose
The skills that get you promoted are almost never the skills the new job needs, and everyone running the promotion already knows it.
Society
Anything That Can Go Wrong: The True Story of Murphy's Law
A backwards-wired sensor, a daredevil on a rocket sled, and the physics that proves your toast really does hate you.
Work
Why Your Requirements Keep Changing (It Is Not Your Work. It Is the Clock.)
You delivered in 2 days and got one change. You delivered in 5 days and got a committee. Same work. Same person. Different amount of time for people to have opinions.