Maybe it could be like O’Reilly, except the covers could have shittily-drawn fantasy animals, e.g. a 7-year-old’s drawing of a unicorn with a head on each side of its body both talking on their AirPods giving away their money to scammers, making PowerPoint slides, eating too much, doing hard drugs, live-streaming on Facebook, and standing on the railroad tracks with a train in the distance.

If you are ever going to get to grips with optimizing something, why not do the opposite first or as a foil?

How often do you really fenangle your database (or other system) properly? Are your performance enhancements really based on science or cargo culting or something else?