an engineers story

I just read an amazing article at Anadtech about the engineering back-story to the ATI RV770 chip. The story is titled The RV770 Story- documenting ATI's road to success. As an engineer who will also devote years to a particular design idea, going from dream, to concrete ideas, to prototypes, to working examples to polishing and enhancing versions this is an amazing story. The life of an engineer or scientist or artist is so different to most people. We devote years of our lives to the creation of a single thing, to a single focus because we believe in it. Most of the rest of world lives under much shorter time scales of focus (quarterly or weekly or 2hr tasks). It is so refreshing to have such a well written story about an engineering story where a team bucked the trend, took a chance, and they got lucky and it paid off.