97 things

I'm reading a book called "97 things a programmer should know". After the first few pages, it seemed like common sense, so I put it down. It didn't solve my crisis of the stalemate I find myself in. Not only that, it was generally uninteresting.

What I do want to read, however, would be "97 things a programmer wouldn't know", which could introduce some new paradigms to the art of software programming that an average programmer won't be familiar to - after years of being in the industry, I have seen people decaying and falling out-of-date; or "97 things a programmer should forget", which could be a treatise against the prevalent bad practices that every new guy falls into.

Next I pit hopes on "Beautiful Architecture", which I understand as an effort towards creating a "programmauteur", my ideal.