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Imagine That!: The story of Ed Smith, one of the first African Americans to work in the design of video games and personal computers by Benj Edwards, Edward Smith

kaflurbaleen's review

5.0

This was super interesting to read, having knowledge of the SOME of the things, like the history of microprocessors and personal computers and video games, but not other things, like growing up in Brownsville, NY and feeling lucky to escape a cycle of crime and incarceration by getting into tech and one of his first jobs as a traffic signal test engineer.

Ed talks a lot about his race and his childhood in the first part of the book, and the development of his career. By the end of the book, he's talking about his corporate jet setting career that kind of goes over my head, but along the way, he shares lessons about holding on to your dreams, imagining thing that are beyond your current reality, and doing the work to make what you've imagined real.