Chad Clark's Open Journal : 2006-09-10

1) Joel mentions "Peopleware" again.

"Peopleware" is one of my favorite books.  I can't stress how important I
think it is to read this book.  Anyway the following comes from
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDevelopers.html

  I went to a Computer Science conference at Yale. One of the speakers, a
  Silicon Valley veteran who had founded or led quite an honor roll of
  venture-capital funded startups, held up the book Peopleware.
  
  "You have to read this book," he said. "This is the bible of how to run a
  software company. This is the most important book out there for how to
  run software companies."
  
  ...
  
  After the speech I went up to the speaker. "I agree with you about
  Peopleware," I said. "Tell me: did you have private offices for your
  developers at all your startups?"
  
  "Of course not," he said. "The VCs would never go for that."