anyone read dealers of lightning?

Evan Koblentz wrote: I read it shortly after it came out and I thought it was a great read. A few years later, in 1986, I was working for Calera Recognition Systems, which at the time was called Palentir. Two or three months after joining, someone told me that the guy in the office next to my cube, Carl Alsing, was one of the people in Soul of A New Machine (Carl was the leader of the microkids, who wrote the microcode). I read the book again. The thing that impressed me about Tracy Kidder's writing was that in the part where Carl was described, Kidder captured aspects of Carl's personality in a paragraph or two that I recognized as being spot on. It gave the rest of the book that much more credibility. As was mention, the book wasn't so much about the DG business, but I'd disagree and say it wasn't so much about the engineering either; very little actually. It was mostly about the dynamics of the to bring the machine to life, both the internal politics of this skunk-works project and the inherent dynamics of the teams of mostly inexperienced engineers trying to accomplish something way beyond what they should have been able to do. If it had been a book about the actual engineering, very few people would have read it.