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Sue & John’s Shared Retros

• Early Bird Sue does not get the worm: Sue learns important lessons from her first pool tournament with the Billiards Congress of America.

• John’s Passport Mishap: John recounts the stressful saga of a lost passport just before a dream vacation and the unexpected lessons he learned about patience, flexibility, and the kindness of strangers.

Recommended Books, Articles, and Podcasts about Retrospectives

Articles

• Blameless Postmortems and a Just Culture - John Allspaw

• Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure - Google

• Strategies for Learning from Failure - Harvard Business Review

• Want to Thrive? First, Learn to Fail - New York Times

Books

• SRE Book: Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure - Sue Lueder and John Lunney

• SRE Workbook: Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure - Daniel Rogers, Murali Suriar, Sue Lueder, Pranjal Deo, and Divya Sudhakar

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear

• Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande

• Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well - Douglas Stone and Shiela Heen

• Radical Candor - Kim Scott

Audio and Video

• Shape of Stories (the inspiration for our logo) - Kurt Vonnegut

• How to Motivate Ourselves to Change Behavior - Dr. Tali Sharot

• How a space can improve (or destroy) your life - Struthless

• Fail Better With David Duchovny (podcast)

• Captain Hindsight - Southpark