How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary is an excellent essay. I dare not call myself a real programmer, but I’m definitely an aspiring programmer. Essays like this one are miniature goldmines — decades of real human experience compacted and organized, ready for ingestion.
Where in the world is Raam?
Also good, though slightly snarky: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
Awesome, I haven’t read that one yet. Thanks!