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

After they shipped the guy who did the timing changed careers, to take up farming.

He didn't really change careers. He built a 32-bit processor for Computervision fairly soon after leaving Data General and has done plenty of stuff since [1].

[1] http://www.polybus.com/hdlmaker/Resume.html

:( Now I'm sad. That was such a great story.

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