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slug: "reading"
date: "2024-01-14T19:45:00Z"
tags:
  - books
  - reading
type: note
language: en
attached: []
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Finished *The Soul of a New Machine* by Tracy Kidder. Thirty years old and it still reads like a thriller. The thing that dates it most is how small the stakes were — one minicomputer — and how much it mattered to everyone involved anyway.

That ratio might be the whole point.
