Paul Graham's 2009 essay on the structural mismatch between makers (who need long unbroken blocks) and managers (who schedule by the hour) — the founding text of a generation of remote-work and async culture.
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Paul GrahamPaul Graham's 2003 talk on what programming languages will look like in a hundred years — the slow, predictable direction of language design, and the surprising things it implies about code today.
Stewart Brand (Long Now Foundation)Stewart Brand's pace-layering model: complex systems learn by moving at different speeds, with fast innovation on top of slow, durable foundations. An essential framework for thinking about civilizati
Joel on Software (2000)Joel Spolsky's 2000 checklist for software teams — twelve yes/no questions (do you use source control? do you have a bug database?) that, 25 years on, are still the most-cited engineering-quality heuristic on the web.