I like. You see pg's popular essays all the time and get a little tired of them. Beating the averages, yeah whatever... hackers and painters, uh huh. But the less popular ones are really good, I especially like "The Submarine".

(Maybe because it is my hobby to push back against dress codes. One time, I was visiting my company's Singapore office. "You can't wear tennis shoes here, it's against the dress code!" "Do you know who I am?" "Nope." "Can you fire me?" "Nope." "Then what are you going to do about it?" :)