➔ Atlas Shrugged: Why This 1957 Novel Still Hits Different for Engineers
So here I am, starting a 32-post blog series about a book written in 1957. Over 1000 pages. A book that people either love or hate with very little in between. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. The 35th Anniversary Edition (ISBN: 9781101137192), with Leonard Peikoff’s introduction that gives you a peek into Rand’s actual journal notes as she was building this thing from scratch.
Why would a software engineer spend months writing about a philosophy novel from the Cold War era? Honestly, this book keeps showing up. In conversations with founders, in reading lists from engineers I respect, in debates about how the tech industry should work. I figured it was time to actually sit down and go through it properly. Not just read it, but think about it chapter by chapter.