--- title: "Book review: The Thinking Machine" url: https://daily.dev/posts/book-review-the-thinking-machine-ldyloq3g0 source_url: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/05/book-review-thinking-machine.html type: article source: "Metadata" published: 2026-05-16T23:17:58.180Z updated: 2026-05-16T23:18:23.491Z tags: ["ai", "nvidia", "cuda"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 46 comments: 3 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Book review: The Thinking Machine **[Metadata](https://daily.dev/sources/muratbuffalo)** · 7 min read · 46 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary A personal review of 'The Thinking Machine', a biography of Jensen Huang and Nvidia's rise from graphics chips to AI dominance. The reviewer praises the book's coverage of Nvidia's near-bankruptcy in the 1990s and Jensen's decade-long bet on CUDA before it paid off with the deep learning boom. The review also touches on Jensen's management style — including his 'strategic rage' — and defends his composure during a contentious Dwarkesh Patel podcast interview about GPU exports to China. The reviewer finds Jensen's obsessive competence admirable, even if his temper is uncomfortable, and concludes that Nvidia's success was the result of sustained conviction rather than luck. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ultimatedestruct** · 5 upvotes > I may have to give this book a shot. The part about CUDA sounds super interesting. We live in a world where businesses expect quick quarterly returns - so what does it take for a company and/or CEO to continue on-course for something that is game-changing, but takes a decade to pay off? > > > I guess I'll have to read the book to find out. **@bertin066** · 1 upvotes > Look interesting I might try it **@haohmaru444** · 1 upvotes > get lucky ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [2026 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Nvidia's Jensen Huang](https://daily.dev/posts/2026-ieee-medal-of-honor-goes-to-nvidia-s-jensen-huang-3h7xhhjcz) · IEEE Spectrum · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code](https://daily.dev/posts/jensen-huang-says-his-engineers-would-rather-build-agents-than-write-code-7hbt6vyhf) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia), [#cuda](https://daily.dev/tags/cuda) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/book-review-the-thinking-machine-ldyloq3g0)