Tom West captured the essence of what motivates me to work, and what I find motivates most of the incredible people I've had the opportunity to work with: An e

Tom West captured the essence of what motivates me to work, and what I find motivates most of the incredible people I've had the opportunity to work with: An engineer's essential desire, after all, is to design and build a machine and see it through to completion, but completion itself is therefore not the ultimate reward. In the Eagle days, West called this paradox "pinball." In pinball, he reasoned, the prize for winning is getting to play again. The story of the Eagle engineers since Soul is one of a career-length version of pinball.