It is a great book, and it includes an amazing essay by him titled You and Your Research [0][1] - which explains why it is important to "always be learning".

0 - https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3msMuwqp-o (lecture version)

> [Richard Hamming's] You and Your Research

Add Edsger Dijkstra's The Humble Programmer (1972 Turing Lecture) as a companion read for software engs: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340... / https://archive.is/U8GwX

I read it last year and it is fantastic - super absolutely ultra highly recommend that everybody read it. Run, don't walk, towards this book!