thenightwatch.pdf
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf
As a systems hacker, you must be prepared to do savage things, unspeakable things, to kill runaway threads with your bare hands, to write directly to network ports using telnet and an old copy of an RFC that you found in the Vatican.
In praise of git’s index // plasmasturm.org
http://plasmasturm.org/log/gitidxpraise
"So what is the index good for?"
Twelve Virtues of Rationality
http://yudkowsky.net/virtues
How to Do What You Love
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html