Normalization of Deviance (2015)
As far as I can tell, the central thesis is that companies (maybe just tech companies) are screwed up. The sardonic tone though makes it almost entirely undigestable to me.There's an emotional air of "the world is F'd and nobody sees it," that is independent of the central thesis, that makes it hard for me to take the anecdotes at face value. Which is too bad, because I'm sure there are a lot of grains of truth behind the author's experience.Additionally, I have to observe that the author's experience doesn't align very well with mine. Certainly I've seen bad decisions, bad tech (but never a failure to use source control as he describes), some politics, intense personalities, but by and large I've found the vast majority of people to be acting in good faith, albeit sometimes creatures of habit and hard to win over before you build a track record.