Hackers and painters - big ideas from the computer age

Reading Paul Graham is an addiction and an intellectual fix for most of us who may find themselves lost in the mundane code mazes of our day job and go out looking for answer. These are the pearls from a Harvard Computer Science PhD who made Bayesian inference a house hold name. This ~250 page book is a collection of seminal/web style writings on a diverse array of topics in fifteen essays. The book is all about ideas, thoughts and questions for instance in "Good and Bad Procrastination" Paul states