I’m feeling lucky: The confessions of Google employee number 59
Brilliant story of life in a blisteringly successful technical start-up as a non-technical person.
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Tweet‘Oh, these engineers are working on random things. We need to coordinate them and manage it.’ The real value is that people will do things that everyone thinks are a waste of time. That’s where the big opportunities are. It’s an opportunity because other people don’t see it.
—Paul Bucheit
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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
Fascinating insight into the lives of overachieving students.
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TweetThe marvelously anarchic institution of childhood has been slowly turning into little more than an apprentice adulthood … Kids who ought to move with the lunatic energy of youth now move with the high purpose of the worker bee.
—Time magazine, 2001
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Charlie Wilson’s War: The extraordinary story of how the wildest man in Congress and a rouge CIA agent changed the history of our times
Shadow U.S. foreign policy creation through passion and purpose. Includes some additional discussion of the latter day ramifications of this adventure.
Oh, and if you’re interested in learning more about what happened to Mike Vickers … turns out he did okay.
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TweetYou’re a Janissary when you play your own game - when no one knows what the rules are.
—Gust Avrakatos
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The strangest man: The hidden life of Paul Dirac
Fascinating investigation of Dirac’s science and person. Best scientific biography I have read since James Gleick’s vivid portrait of Richard Feynman.
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TweetPaul believed it was the height of arrogance for any group of people to claim that they alone know the truth.
—Kurt Hofer
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It means what it says and if I had wanted to say it any other way, I should have done so
—T.S. Eliott
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One Click: Jeff Bezos and the rise of Amazon.com
Fascinating read. Curious individual by all accounts.
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