book
by Tracy Kidder
Kidder embedded with a Data General team racing to build a 32-bit minicomputer, the Eclipse MV/8000, and caught engineering culture as it really is: young engineers 'signing up' for impossible schedules, managers who shield and exploit them, and work done for the sheer pleasure of solving it. Won the Pulitzer in 1982 and is still the truest book about why engineers build things.
July 20, 2026
Dynomight on the coming end of pseudonymity, Brian Potter scores 239 laws against their promises, and a Sears-catalog rewrite of American growth.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
April 6, 2026
AI Snake Oil on scaling myths, Import AI on 100K training runs, and Tyler Cowen finds AI in the productivity statistics for real this time.
