Khoi Vinh (who you may know from the great Subtraction.com blog) has a new ebook out called How They Got There: Interviews With Digital Designers About Their Careers. The title pretty much says it all, but I don't want to understate anything here — Khoi assembled a truly awesome group of designers to interview about their lives and career choices:

• Dan Cederholm of Dribbble
• Alex Cornell of Firespotter Labs
• Nicholas Felton of Daytum
• Agnieszka Gasparska of Kiss Me I’m Polish
• Cemre Güngör of Branch
• Erika Hall of Mule
• Naz Hamid of Weightshift
• Karen McGrane of Bond Art + Science
• Wilson Miner of The Factory
• Jill Nussbaum of The Barbarian Group
• Evan Sharp of Pinterest
• Geoff Teehan of Teehan + Lax
• Justin Van Slembrouck of Digg
• Marcos Weskamp of Flipboard
• with a foreword by Liz Danzico of NPR and chair of MFA Interaction Design at The School of Visual Arts

I would especially recommend this book to anyone just getting started with a career in design work, but anyone who wants to know what makes great designers tick should also check it out. Khoi himself put it best:

Basically, this is the book that I wish that I could have had handy when I was just starting out, when I was trying to figure out how to get from A to B career-wise. [...] the conversations were so interesting that I felt newly inspired myself.

The full price of the book is $30, but for a limited time (as of March 16th, 2015) there is an option on the site to tweet about the book and get a $5 discount. Either way, when you buy the book you'll receive a 250-page PDF, as well as unabridged copies for iBooks (ePub) and Kindle (MOBI).