Seconded. Besides telling a familiar story in a very compelling way, Kidder has a genius for quotability:
One engineer, Josh Rosen, who burned out fighting nanosecond-level timing bugs was seduced by the attraction of commune living and left to live in the country. His resignation note declared, I’m going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
Gems like this one appear about once every two pages, give or take.
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Non-fiction, but the best tech startup story I know of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
Seconded. Besides telling a familiar story in a very compelling way, Kidder has a genius for quotability:
One engineer, Josh Rosen, who burned out fighting nanosecond-level timing bugs was seduced by the attraction of commune living and left to live in the country. His resignation note declared, I’m going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
Gems like this one appear about once every two pages, give or take.