2026-03-27 16:25 UTC
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@mattblaze@federate.social 2026-03-27 16:32
@debcha@saturation.social Same (though I was a bit older when I read it). It opened doors for me. That said, I'm glad Kidder didn't allow his success with SoaNM to define him narrowly as a chronicler of technologists. His other work transports you into seemingly ordinary worlds that have so much more to them than you'd imagine. That was his superpower as a writer, I think.
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@debcha@saturation.social 2026-03-27 16:28
[that’s my own copy, bought secondhand decades ago, the 1982 mass market paperback edition of a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book, which seems like a period piece in itself] If you haven’t yet read it, you can think of it as a prequel to HALT AND CATCH FIRE?
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@marinheiro@ciberlandia.pt 2026-03-27 16:40
@debcha@saturation.social I thought it was amazing, it helped decide a change of career for me.
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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz 2026-03-27 17:26
@debcha@saturation.social Aaah, that's a loss. Thanks for sharing the news.
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@clive@saturation.social 2026-03-27 23:28
@debcha@saturation.social I read it in college too, and it was a template for my thinking about how to do immersive long form journalism about technology! Love love love that book
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@dualkei@hachyderm.io 2026-03-28 01:45
@debcha@saturation.social As a CS undergrad doing much of my coursework on a VAX at the time, this book really connected with me too.
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@rmi@cloudisland.nz 2026-03-28 02:36
@debcha@saturation.social When I am emperor, this book will be compulsory reading in high school, along with yours.