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Book review: The Courage to be Disliked
I recently completed listening to an audio book titled “The Courage to be Disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. I first purchased the Kindle version and found myself bogged down way too early in the book. The links found earlier in this paragraph are clean and contain no promotional benefit to me whatsoever (but if others making money or receiving some benefit from sharing a link with you bothers you, consider you may feel this way because you have a goal to be bothered by such things). The previous sentence is a joke, but you will need to read or listen to the book to get it (use one of the clean links above… or not… your call).
The theme of the book is the psychology of Alfred Adler raised to the level of life philosophy. I’d not heard of Adler prior to listening to this book. While I continue to mull the contents and their presentation, I was pleasantly surprised to find parallels to both stoicism and Christianity (the book actually contained the Greek word “koinonia,” and this may be the first time I’ve read that word outside of Christian literature).
I found the audio version a much better adaptation as the book is written as a dialogue between an older philosopher and a younger seeker-student. There is also a moderator who speaks up from time to time. The dramatized audible reading is well done and I found it easier to follow.
I am currently intrigued by the ideas of the philosophy and, as stated earlier, I continue to mull.
Recommended.
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I am honored to deliver a full-day, pre-conference training session titled Data Engineering Fundamentals with Fabric Data Factory at the PASS Data Community Summit 2025 on 17 Nov 2025 in Seattle, WA!
Learn more at my post titled “Presenting Data Engineering Fundamentals with Fabric Data Factory at PASS Data Community Summit 2025”, and check out additional pre-conferences sessions. I describe this list of talented technologists as “a bunch of scary-smart presenters… plus me!”
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It turns out you can configure an Azure security to permit a Data Factory pipeline to execute Fabric REST API calls. Who knew? Koen Verbeeck (LinkedIn | @Ko_Ver), that’s who! Koen’s probably not the only person who knew (or knows), but I read his posts on the matter and found them compelling. Having secured permission to re-share, this post represents the first of two posts on the topic. Configuring Azure, Fabric Admin portal, and Fabric workspace security is a bit tricksy, but Koen’s posts showed me the way.
Thank you, Koen!
I plan to share more information in an upcoming episode of…
Data Engineering Fridays
Join me (almost) every Friday at 12:00 PM ET for my award-winning show - Data Engineering Fridays (which hasn’t won any awards). As described in my book review; reading is fun and all, but it is sometimes cool to have someone speak to you and show you how to implement a solution.
Since 17 Jan 2025, I’ve been sharing one way to build an Azure Data Factory execution orchestration framework. I anticipate an upcoming episode that covers implementing the security necessary to call the Fabric ReST API from an ADF pipeline.
The show is simul-cast (is that even a word in 2025?) on several social media platforms. In addition to 12:00 PM ET Friday, I schedule encores of the show at 9:00 PM ET Friday and again at 3:00 AM ET Saturday. Find a partial list of platforms at the bottom of the Data Engineering Fridays site and join the fun!
Peace.
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