Coders

This book is a look at coders and coding culture and every coder and system-thinker will probably love reading it. Because who doesn't love to hear about being INTJs and the joy of efficiency and the frustrations and patience required when chasing bugs. It definitely gave me the itch to go and automate something. All the analogies were spot on, that for example coders have to build and juggle houses of cards in their head while programming, tracking at all times the complex interdependencies, and therefore hate all interruptions that make those houses collapse.

In interesting point made is that coding is a discipline where self-taught people work alongside computer-science graduates. Some examples are brought up that show that anyone with an aptitude for problem-solving and optimization can learn those skills, even later in life. Yet the culture that hypes the ubernerds and mastercoders (10X) is not that welcoming to women/minorities and anyone who sees coding just as a dayjob. Still miles to go, but at least worldwide statistics show that culture is to blame, and that white North American men are not the genetically chosen masters of the discipline.