by Tracy Kidder
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Paul Graham and Brad Feld
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The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done—just look at today's news for reports of harddriven, highlymotivated young software and online commerce developers who sacrifice evenings and weekends to meet impossible deadlines. Tracy Kidder got a preview of this world in the late 1970s when he observed the engineers of D...
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and Programming.
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Consider Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. Recommended by 25 sources.
“You’re strapped into a mental road trip where every roadside repair becomes a treatise on Quality. Pirsig’s narrator, haunted by a former self, meditates on technology and madness while struggling to connect with his son. The useful part: it rewires how you think about craft, reason, and what makes something ‘good.’ The frustration: the ride keeps stopping for lectures that some will find illuminating and others self-indulgent; the thin characters and dated psychology may leave you stranded.”
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