I found that The Lean Startup was three or four short essays struggling -- and mostly failing -- to escape a Praetorian guard composed of hundreds of pages of u

I found that The Lean Startup was three or four short essays struggling -- and mostly failing -- to escape a Praetorian guard composed of hundreds of pages of undergraduate padding. When you learn that it's a book deal spun out of a blog, the frustrating reading experience makes much more sense.