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For those interested in the development of Doom (And Wolf3D, Keen, ..), or the story of iD software in general, I quite recommend reading "Masters of Doom".

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222146.Masters_of_Doom?f...

Coincidentally, I just started re-reading it last week. It's quite a fun book :)

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Very fun book indeed, the audiobook is also very good. (narrated by Wil Wheaton) https://www.audible.com/pd/Masters-of-Doom-Audiobook/B008K8B...

I find Will Wheaton's audiobook narration very annoying.

Stopped reading Red Shirts because of his childish voice acting.

I can definitely see him becoming annoying for some contexts, but for this book I found his exciting enthusiasm perfect, reminded me of that early university/student energy.

He was very good at narrating his autobiography. Also liked his reading of Ready Player One but other than those two books, he does tend to be a bad choice for narration. Comparing the Amber Benson reading of Lock In to the Wheaton reading makes this even more obvious.

Reading it now! I also recommend reading his .plan files, archive on github.

It might become a TV show https://www.slashfilm.com/masters-of-doom-series/

Reading that book permanently raised my internal bar for what it means to be a disciplined programmer. The work ethic and what it created was breathtaking.

I think it probably helps when you're not only good at what you're doing, but also are super into the project.

My performance is abysmal at my day job because I really can't bring myself to be interested in the subject at hand. And yet I'll regularly work until the wee hours in the morning on personal projects without even realizing what time it is.

I get that occasionally at work as well - but I find the main hindrance at work to be the distractions of the open office..

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