I have complicated feelings about this book, which I read when I was just starting my career in tech and re-read this week after 30ish years. On the one hand: it is a super-compelling nerd fable, and some of the best layman's descriptions of computer engineering ever written. On the other: A total blueprint for for how to sign tech workers up for abusive working conditions, and convince them that it is all about the passion. I need to sit with it for a while.