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I wish pg would start writing longer form essays again. His startup essays had a huge impact on my approach to building startups. They were hugely insightful an

• tpetricek 10y ago
  If you'd like a longer read along the lines of this note, then you might enjoy Bruno Latour's Science in Action: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Action-Scientists-Engineers-Through/dp/0674792912 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Action-Scientists-Engineers... I found the book super interesting in terms of explaining how innovations happen and how we talk about them in retrospect. Although it is about science, I think a lot of the thinking would apply to programming innovations too. And unlike most blog posts, there is actually some serious sociological research behind it :-).