How to keep house while drowning by KC Davis: how it’s not morally wrong to have a messy living space, and how to keep it livable even when you feel like you’re overwhelmed.
I have ADHD and depression, this book was pivotal in helping me get out of the stereotypical “depression apartment” situation.
I was going to suggest The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, after all, they will already have a towel.
Them: Can you perform under pressure?
Me: Mmm num ba de
Dum bum ba be
Doo buh dum ba beh beh
It’s definitely great in theory until you inherit a codebase with no tests, poor documentation, and numerous reported bugs already live in production. Even better if it was written by people hired because they could do other things better than they could code - which looking at some of the unlabeled wiring messes we were left, isn’t saying a lot.
Tubular Bells, also known as the Theme from The Exorcist.