[benthumb]

Very nice piece of writing ... nice to the point where I think this fellow may have found his true calling (He talks about attending a movie premiere, and, honestly, a film adaptation of six years in the trenches of a ycombinator start-up would--I think at least--make decent fodder for a film).

That said, when I read this I immediately thought of this bit of PG's LISP advocacy:

http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html.

There's clearly no explicit delineation of human drama here, b/c, obviously, it's not intended as such: it's a technical briefing (a really masterful one). One can only guess what trial by fire--if any--there was behind the scenes.