Random tech links

People are much more interesting than software and products. Today’s post is about Tom Preston-Werner, founder of GitHub. Here’s the Optimizing for happiness talk Tom gave at Startup School 2010:

http://justin.tv/c3oorg/b/272031754

The talk is also on his website. Tom recommended 6 books during his talks. One of them is Where good ideas come from by Steven Johnson, who gave a TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html

And lastly, several interesting posts by Tom:

• How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
• Blogging Like a Hacker
• Readme Driven Development