I don’t normally link to 37Signals¹, but this lecture is worth watching. It’s one of the first inspiring lectures on business that I feel good about: it’s sharp, honest, and highly critical of the status quo. Even if you don’t agree with all of it, it should nudge you to think more realistically about the business of software.

1. You already read their feed, don’t you? ↩

An Edsger W. Dijkstra talk on The Humble Programmer, from his 1972 ACM Turing Lecture (more Turing award lectures).

A set of free, online lectures from Donald Knuth. Some interesting topics from one of the pilars of CompSci rigor.

How To Look Like A UNIX Guru, which (despite what you might expect) doesn’t contain anything about where you can find some of those bitchin’ unix-troll suspenders.