I spent Memorial Day weekend at a beach house on the outer banks of North Carolina with three other families. Four couples with six kids under the age of five, all girls. Quite amusing. Interspersed with making sand castles, watching the kids, eating, talking with the adults, and watching my daughter fall asleep in a go-kart, I read Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy.

This morning I finished the book Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. It was written by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, and the “benevolent dictator” who manages the core of that, the most successful of open source programming projects.