There’s been a lot of love for this book, but I found the title to be jarring. When I was given the book to read, I was doing a lot of maintenance work, and was doing a lot of ‘duct tape and bailing wire’ kinds of fixes to keep the systems functional, while slowly addressing the root causes of downtime and issues. To me this was truly pragmatic programming, but nothing in the first few chapters even tries to deal with the levels of pragmatism I needed in my day job that had far too many night time wake up calls. I couldn’t finish it. Any wisdom the book may have was lost to me, and I’ll likely never pick up the book again, I associate it with too much PTSD from that time in my life...