Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi has a good bit in it on the perils and triumphs of the Mississippi River Boat Pilots. Their special status on the ante-bell

Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi has a good bit in it on the perils and triumphs of the Mississippi River Boat Pilots. Their special status on the ante-bellum Mississippi has a lot of parallels to today's tech workers and the challenges you all face. I'll spoil it a bit and say that things did not end up well for the pilots. Techies would be wise to heed their lessons. Chapters 14 and 15 contain the majority of the lessons of the pilots: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/245/245-h/245-h.htm#linkc14 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/245/245-h/245-h.htm#linkc14