Made a short post on my blog about Tracy Kidder and the nostalgia hole I've been in over the past few days.

https://www.jessamyn.com/journal/2026/03/tracy-kidder-rip

@jessamyn I do like the quote
*"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."*
from the post https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/26/1628201/tracy-kidder-author-of-the-soul-of-a-new-machine-dies-at-80
Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine', Dies At 80 - Slashdot

Ancient Slashdot reader wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine," has died at the age of 80. "The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's just before the PC dest...

@gmoretti Amusingly I wound up in Vermont :D