I enjoyed the breakdown of innovation into primary, secondary and tertiary pieces.
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Legalizing Theft: A Short Guide to Tax Havens by Alain Denault
They simply take all of the illegal bits and offshore them!
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway
This is the story of how print media was left behind.
Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry by David C. Robertson
Fascinating U-turn in the middle…
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel
What Zuckerberg really wants is to develop nerdy products, not moderate free speech for the world!
The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays
The net result of this book was to instill in me a desire to visit the Folger Library in Washington DC. Henry Folger was Rockefeller’s right-hand man at Standard Oil; Rockefeller as the richest man in the world and one of the richest humans who has ever lived. Folger had…
Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore by Arnold Thackray
Moore is famous for the law that bears his name: namely, that the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a microchip doubles every 2 years. The “law” originated from Moore’s insatiable love of data, his tendency to take copious notes, his reflective, analytical thinking and his affinity for…
Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State by David Patrikarakos
The interesting thing was how it genuinely started from nuclear energy.
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Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
One can seethe with rage reading this book.
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
This is a book about some of the most competitive people in science. It’s a joint biography of Jennifer Doudna (who in 2020 won the Nobel prize together with Emanuelle Charpentier) and the CRISPR method for gene editing. The former is significantly less interesting than the latter. Isaacson does his…