Comment by 95014_refugee

I have a reasonable amount of respect for Terry's technical competence, but a ... quirk of his personality is that he doesn't really respect the bounds around the truth.

If you know those bounds, you can filter him, but in general reading / listening to Terry is necessarily an active and selective process.

It's fair to say that some of the things he describes in this piece are true; he names some real people, and talks about some things that actually happened, but the tale as presented is more "inspired by" than "faithful to" the truth and many of the details are pure invention.

One thing that is true is that some of the folks he names - and praises - did indeed work extremely hard for much less recognition than they deserved.