Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world---and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, it is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder---and rebirth---of man's spirit.
Steven Johnson: Emergence.
The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software.
Scott A. Shane: Finding Fertile Ground
Identifying Extraordinary Opportunities for New Ventures
Antony Flew: How to Think Straight
An Introduction to Critical Reasoning
Murray N. Rothbard: Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market (Scholars Edition)
William Poundstone: Prisoner's Dilemma
John von Neumann, game theory, and the puzzle of the bomb.
Michael A. Cusumano: The Business of Software.
Makes for in-depth, very informative tech start-up reading about the software industry.
David Deutsch: The Fabric of Reality
A startingly integrated, rational and optimistic world view that combines four strands: quantum physics and the theories of knowledge, computation and evolution.
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead
The story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a woman who struggles to defeat him.
Well... the eagerness of such outbreaks (as I have witnessed them in others) is so blatantly saying "this team sucks" that you would be lucky if people played along, but shouldn't be surprised if they don't. Most people are not able or willing to articulate this, but projected from my own perspective:
I would admire the gesture, had it been out of genuine generosity with no such secret hope wishing to be mind-read because you did not permit yourself to articulate it. Ask yourself why. You wanted to make a point and I'm sure you made it---too well at that. People believed you. I suppose it was better this way: imagine they had the slightest idea of your intentions, they might have felt pressurized and might not have been able to fully enjoy the party. Maybe it was this way, maybe it wasn't---and maybe it is relieving that you cannot tell from their lack of the reaction you so optimistically expected. It might sound harsh but if you were the only one feeling like partying, it was proper that you afforded it.
Make no mistake, I'm all for the kind of enthusiasm you expose. However, I have learned that other people have their own standards (as they properly should), and there are only so many commonalities. If you cannot convince them in small ways it is useless to try it in bigger ways at such an expense---unless you really, really want to have that party, blanking out the fact that everyone else is indifferent towards the idea one or the other. Plan for moving on to a team somewhere else more to your liking, and stick it out in the mean time. Unless all this trying is personally satisfying for you in one way or another ("well *I* certainly tried my best but these guys can't be helped..." ;)
That is probably the single best offering to motivate developers; rather than dot-com-era kicker tables or in-company spas, which pose the danger of distracting or justifying escapism from hard thinking rather than encouraging and stimulating said essential activity.