Gives a bit of a feeling of what Torvalds is like as a person, and the process by which he created Linux.

For a geek like me, it is nice to re-live the history of how computers have changed so much over the last 50 years, and how those changes have affected so many other things.

Back when I was originally learning programming, it was impossible for me to imagine that one could make a career out of it. I did it just for fun. Torvalds was doing the same. Many of the programmers of my age have a similar experience. These days, programming is seen as a lucrative career, so many people go into it with that in mind rather than the joy of the experience.

In this book, Linus Torvalds comes across as a pretty nice guy. But this book stops before he created "git". And since "git" is evil, I have to wonder what happened to him! (Just kidding. But "git" is horrible.)