I unfortunately haven't read either or those. Jobs biography became too famous that I didn't feel like reading it (^_^).
I will pick Einstein at some point in the future. This was my first read from Issacson.
Awesome! I've been using patchwork for some days and was always curious how to navigate to these ssb:// link i see thrown in places.
You just throw it in the search field and you'll see all the details! top!
I have found the mozilla community to be very helpful and each project has a very good list of mentored bugs. The community has found http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ to be a very good tool for beginning contributors to get the right first bug and step into the whole community.
Best way to get involved remains to ping to #introduction on IRC (irc.mozilla.org)
Regarding discovering them algorithmically tends to be quite an interesting idea actually, should think more on this.