Summary
The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder, is reviewed. The Soul of a New Machine is ostensibly about a team of engineers in the late 1975 who build a 32-bit superminicomputer - a challenge then at the forefront of technological innovation. But the book isn't really about building a computer. It could be fairly tided The Soul of Anything New, since it's really about how people come together and achieve remarkable things. At its deepest level, it's about the conditions that produce excellence in human endeavors.
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Inspiring Innovation
DOG-EARED Inspiring Innovation Review by David Bornstein THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE Tracy Kidder 320 pages, Back Bay Books, 2000 (originally published in 1981)
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