A list of tidbits of writing and thinking that I like.

• Why is January 1 being reported as the last week of the previous year?
  From Raymond Chen’s “The Old New Thing”
• Learn to Read the Source, Luke
  I like to call this one “Use the Source, Luke!”. Anyhow, Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror is great as always.
• “Thinking is writing” - Paul Graham Paul Graham (Founder of Y Combinator) has a number of essays on writing. The essence is that good writing is good thinking and for the most part good thinking is also good writing.
• Joel Spolsky
  • My first BillG review
  • Back to Basics
  • “Smart and gets things done”. This is actually the title of Joel Spolsky’s book. But for I want you don’t actually need to read the book. The point is the title. Eschew architecture astronauts (they’re smart but don’t get things done, or gets things done in an overly complicated way)
  • Listen to the first 200 episodes of the Stack Overflow podcast. So much gold in there.