Re:Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
by bradneuberg on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @11:52PM
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Thanks for the pointer! Just bought the audiobook version of your book, looks like a great read.
Re:Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
by AlbertCory on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:28AM
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Thank you, sir! The narrator (Maxwell Glick) and I did about an hour of live chat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGchbES0DhU
He did my second book, too.
Re:Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
by markus_zhang on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @07:48PM
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Thank you sir! Already in my shopping cart.
Re:Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
by AlbertCory on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:55PM
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Brad's already started a Twitter thread about it. AMA!
I wrote a book (https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future) that's set 7-10 years after TSOANM. Unlike Kidder, I was actually part of it. One of the reviews compares it to TSOANM, so I guess that's high praise.
Since there are already at least two non-fiction books about all that (Fumbling the Future and Dealers of Lightning) I wrote this like it was fiction, meaning with characters who get to do things and talk to each other, and don't know how it all turns out.
Nearly all the players who are still alive helped & critiqued it, and one (Dave Smith, the inventor of icons) wrote the Foreword.