{"id":8044,"date":"2013-10-18T19:09:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T00:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2013-10-18T19:09:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T00:09:30","slug":"masters-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/masters-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/you-dont-need-millions-of-dollars.html\">Jeff Atwood<\/a> reviews the 2003 book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0812972155\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">Masters of Doom<\/a>, about the history of Id Software:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/you-dont-need-millions-of-dollars.html\"><p>It&rsquo;s unusual to find a book about a contentious, complex friendship and business relationship that both parties sign off on &#8211; and even a decade later, regularly recommend to people interested in their personal back stories. But it is a testament to just how <i>right<\/i> Kushner got this story that both Romero and Carmack do. This is <b>exactly the sort of meticulously researched, multiple viewpoint biography that you&rsquo;d want to read about important people in your industry<\/b>. In that sense, it&rsquo;s kind of the opposite of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B004W2UBYW\/codihorr-20\">Jobs biography<\/a>, which I liked well enough, but it presented one viewpoint, and often in a very incomplete, sloppily researched way. I would <i>kill<\/i> to read a book this good about Jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood reviews the 2003 book Masters of Doom, about the history of Id Software: It&rsquo;s unusual to find a book about a contentious, complex friendship and business relationship that both parties sign off on &#8211; and even a decade later, regularly recommend to people interested in their personal back stories. But it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,101,643,418,295,646,645,644],"class_list":["post-8044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-book","tag-business","tag-doom","tag-game","tag-history","tag-id-software","tag-quake","tag-wolfenstein-3d"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}