It's nice to have a collection of high-quality writing related to software and business in one place rather than trawling the Web for that. With a nod to both serious and funny sides of technical writing, The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Implement by Joel Spolsky is read guide to the author's entertaining and technical writing. The Best Software Writing contains writings from: Ken Arnold Leon Bambrick Michael Bean Rory Blyth Adam Bosworth Danah Boyd Raymond Chen Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi Cory Doctorow ea_spouse Bruce Eckel Paul Ford Paul Graham John Gruber Gregor Hohpe Ron Jeffries Eric Johnson Eric Lippert Michael Lopp Larry Osterman Mary Poppendieck Rick Schaut Aaron Swart Clay Shirky eric Sink why the lucky stiff