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In the book Kidder talks about how they had a gate level simulator implemented in software that allowed them trouble shoot timing issues.

I contributed Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder and Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey, among others.

Tracy Kidder received the Pulitzer Prize for it.

Mountains Beyond Mountains is the only other Kidder book I've read.

Counterexample: Pao's husband sued his employer for discrimination and made a sweet million: Fletcher sued his employer, brokerage Kidder Peabody, for discrimination and won $1.3 million in 1991.

He essentially said that Kidder spent a year in the presence of engineers, and at no point came close to understanding what makes them tick, and in contrast Copland seems to have spent a week with some and instantly grasped their essence.

When I left Kidder (an investment bank long gone) I got six months pay and benefits, a end-of year projected bonus based on my earnings for the firm from the prior year and a nice bottle of bubbly.

Some worthy books on this: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King (really!) The Practice of Writing, by David Lodge The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction, by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, by Phillip Lopate 3.

This allows Kidder, by presenting them with a frequently changing environment, to "evolve" them quickly into highly intelligent lifeforms who fear Kidder and worship him like a god.

Tracy Kidder, "The Soul of the New Machine".

Another similar example is Tracy Kidder (a writer, not an anthropologist) being embedded with a team at Data General, resulting in the fantastic book "The Soul of a New Machine".

Exactly this same culture is documented in Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine", and if you read biographies of Oppenheimer, Feynmann etc the same was going on back in the 40s.

Kidder can control his neoterics' environment, and thus force them into developing technology far beyond that of humans.

You missed the absolute best of the genre: The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder.

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, the classic book following the development of a new minicomputer in the late 70s.