The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
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Kidder follows engineers at Data General racing to build a minicomputer under impossible deadlines. It's a portrait of how obsession and rivalry drive technological creation.
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In this collection, The Soul of a New Machine references 1 other book and is cited by 3 other books.
It draws on The Mythical Man-Month.
It’s picked up by Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture and Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
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Kidder's narrative echoes the challenges Brooks described in The Mythical Man-Month.
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Caro's approach to embedding with subjects parallels Tracy Kidder's immersive method in The Soul of a New Machine
Kushner's immersive reporting on Carmack's engine-building sessions mirrors Tracy Kidder's documentary method in The Soul of a New Machine for capturing hardware-software creation
Shares Kidder's concern from The Soul of a New Machine about technology's seductive power over human attention, but shifts the lens from computing engineers to an entire culture captivated by television's entertaining glow
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