The Soul of A New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
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“@GregAtBox Great book | The best source of information about startups is probably not business books, but histories of particular startups and industries. The most famous is Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine, but there are many good books of this type. I particularly liked Sorensen's My Forty Years with Ford.”
Source →“@GregAtBox Great book | The best source of information about startups is probably not business books, but histories of particular startups and industries. The most famous is Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine, but there are many good books of this type. I particularly liked Sorensen's My Forty Years with Ford.”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Paul Graham and Brad Feld
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Technology, Engineering, and Books Recommended by Paul Graham.
The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done—just look at today's news for reports of harddriven, highlymotivated young software and online commerce developers who sacrifice evenings and weekends to meet impossible deadlines. Tracy Kidder got a preview of this world in the late 1970s when he observed the engineers of D...
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“@GregAtBox Great book | The best source of information about startups is probably not business books, but histories of particular startups and industries. The most famous is Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine, but there are many good books of this type. I particularly liked Sorensen's My Forty Years with Ford.”
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