Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
good natured technology
“You had a set of folks running these machines who were the priesthood of hardware, and the rest of us were railing against it,” says Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. “We wanted a playground where we could go to freely try things out.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
http://www.oreillygmt.eu/interview/fatboy-in-a-lean-world/
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Not that there's anything wrong with such creative outlets, but the scale of these "projects" is often mind-boggling, with tens of thousands being spent on marginal increases in functionality.
Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
A reliable device built to last a lifetime, as all computers were.
Becky Chambers • A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1)
Build half a product, not a half-assed product