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I still need to read “The Soul of a New Machine”, should I save this until after?
by dkdcdev 6mo ago
I still need to read “The Soul of a New Machine”, should I save this until after?
- pulvinar 6mo agoIt's unrelated to the book, other than the title.
- shon 6mo agoStop reading HN and read the book now. You’re welcome. ;)
- engineer_22 6mo agoSoul of a New machine is a great read, never slow or self-gratifying, highly recommended
- jnsaff2 6mo agoThat's a great book to read, after that pick up The Cuckoo's Egg.
- JSR_FDED 6mo agoShould be compulsory reading. Actually, now that I think about it, this would make a great interview question in the AI era: “what did you think of Soul of a new machine?”
- abdulhaq 6mo agoI found Showstopper! even more compelling
- ghaff 6mo agoThose two books are probably the two best about tech projects I've ever read. I worked at Data General as a product manager for about 13 years and know many of the individuals although I joined a few years after the book was written.
- le-mark 6mo agoWhat strikes me is the stories that never get told. I met a retiree at a Java meetup once who had worked at Zilog during the z8000 era. He was surprised to meet someone who knew about that.
- ghaff 6mo agoEspecially, pre-web and pre-blogs there's a great deal of tech industry history that largely doesn't exist any longer unless it was especially notable and/or some author decided to spend a year or two writing about it.
- JSR_FDED 6mo agoCool thanks for the recommendation!
- dano 6mo agoHonestly, when I read this book in 1982 or so it changed the trajectory of my life and career. It is an story of a bet-the-business project that occurred in real life. After reading I though I was late to the tech party, missed out on so much, and yet, here we are, 45 years later with incredible advancements and a career I couldn't have imagined. Tracy Kidder was a gem of an individual, just a wonderful person who was truly interested in others. I hope you'll read the book soon.