- Brief history of hackerdom: early history of computer enthusiast movement,
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar: two different ways of software development.
- How to do what you love: thoughts on what it takes to recognize what you love to do, what it really means to love what you do, and why so many people pretend they do love their obviously boring jobs.
- Do things that don't scale what's so special about early stages of project development and how you should approach it,
- Good and bad procrastination: procrastination sometimes seems inevitable, but is there a way to utilize it?
- Life is short: how short it is, what implications its shortness has,
- You weren't meant to have a boss: is having a boss a natural thing? Is it good or bad overall? Is there a way to not have it? Does it worth it?,
- Holding a program in one's head: techniques of developing complex things on your own,
- Stuff: about stuff,
- Taste for makers: What is a taste, how to recognize good one? How important it is?
- Copy what you like: how to do good things and avoid doing ugly things.