A* Interview #11: Jon Skeet, All-Time Highest Reputation StackOverflow User
My top two lessons from Jon:
1) Most mistakes come from users not understanding their data
2) Great communication comes from a whole lot of practice, and it really pays off in your career
Some links:
Read some reasons why Jon Skeet is the Chuck Norris of coding
And finally, go buy “C# in Depth”!
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