Bitwise: A Life in Code, by David Auerbach. Among its memorable conceits: debugging as a life-improvement strategy, the weirdly mesmerizing properties of rando

Bitwise: A Life in Code, by David Auerbach. Among its memorable conceits: debugging as a life-improvement strategy, the weirdly mesmerizing properties of randomness, adversarial cat-and-mouse games that have transpired as a result of dueling software programs. He's a gifted writer and one of the few to consider programming as somewhat spiritually connected to the question of what it means to be a human. (In addition to his literary credentials, the writer is a former technical lead at Microsoft and Google.)