And many HN readers will undoubtedly be familiar with Seymour Cray, the designer of several influential computers:
> The American engineer and supercomputer architect Seymour Cray is known to have been a hobby tunneller. Cray built an 8 by 4 feet (2.4 by 1.2 m) cedar-floored tunnel under his house, explaining that the digging helped him to think about computer designs. "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem," he said.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 16.7 ms ] threadhttps://www.thisamericanlife.org/700/embiggening (see Act Three: Tunnel Vision)
And many HN readers will undoubtedly be familiar with Seymour Cray, the designer of several influential computers:
> The American engineer and supercomputer architect Seymour Cray is known to have been a hobby tunneller. Cray built an 8 by 4 feet (2.4 by 1.2 m) cedar-floored tunnel under his house, explaining that the digging helped him to think about computer designs. "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem," he said.
Perhaps the bigger question is why it's not more popular.