Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
it is more important for a module to have a simple interface than a simple implementation.
John K. Ousterhout • A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition
crunching the mathematics that would make sense of the mess of links
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
the son of a computer science pioneer. He was a soft-spoken nonconformist, a rebel with a 10x cause:
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper.
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
between developers.
David Thomas • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
The Carmack Plan
garbagecollected.orgA program that does everything in the most efficient possible way is often needlessly difficult to understand.