Borst IMed me a few days ago and said he enjoyed my recommendation of Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days, a book of essays written by start-up founders. I'll try to give more recommendations via this blog now of stuff I've read.

I got Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software last week and blew threw it oretty quickly (it was an entertaining read for me).

The book itself covers the startup of an overly ambitious software project and follows the trajectory (of failure, mostly). While reading it, I could relate to the happenings in the book (MT has repeated some of the mistakes to a certain degree). The book provides great insight on why software projects fail, and why it's so hard to write software. If you're in the software engineering industry, I definitely think it's worth a read.