OK, lots of great stuff here in the 37 Signals manifesto Getting Real (37 Signals are the people who brought you Basecamp). First, I highly recommend that you go to the site below and just start reading. I was just poking around for some stuff, on another blog post that I was itching to write, and next thing I know its 1:00am on Monday morning and I don’t even care that I need a miraculous Monday Night Football to win my opening fantasy match-up. It won’t take but an hour if you’re not cursing every Eli Manning completion.

Bonus: Its free to read the whole thing online.

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So, I’ve been on a bit of a non-fiction kick of late, and I thought I’d like to catalog my thoughts, if only to make them a bit more lucid to myself. I just finished reading Dreaming In Code by Salon.com cofounder Scott Rosenberg. He provides some interesting analysis on the development of software. Since I’m in the midst of a development project myself, its given me a lot to think about. I’ll spare you a detailed review, as you could get that from the amazon link below, but I did want to talk about a couple of interesting ideas I ran across.

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