#165 William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age)
What I learned from reading Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel Shurkin. ---- [1:19] Why would a man as unquestionably brilliant as he knowing...
1 Feb 20211h 2min
#164 Robert Goddard (Rocket Man)
What I learned from reading Rocket Man: Robert Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age by David A. Clary. --- [18:16] For even though I reasoned with myself that the thing was impossible, there was so...
25 Jan 20211h 5min
#163 Alfred Nobel
What I learned from reading Alfred Nobel: A Biography by Kenne Fant. ---- [16:24] The self-awareness that would become so characteristic of him was awakening and with it the determination to be the ma...
18 Jan 20211h 1min
#162 Chuck Yeager
What I learned from reading Yeager: An Autobiography by General Chuck Yeager. ---- [10:14] I was a competitive kid. I always tried to do my best. I never thought of myself as being poor or deprived i...
11 Jan 20211h 19min
#161 Dr. Seuss
What I learned from reading Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones. ---- [6:32] Both his parents would inspire and encourage Ted’s love for boo...
4 Jan 20211h 6min
#160 Peter Cundill
What I learned from reading Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher, and Philanthropist by Christopher Risso-Gill. ---- Excellence as a goal in itself had been dr...
28 Des 20201h 9min
#159 Andy Grove (Intel)
What I learned from reading Swimming Across by Andrew S. Grove. ---- [0:01] I was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, Ge...
21 Des 20201h 10min
#158 Walt Disney (Disneyland)
What I learned from reading Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow. ---- [1:29] In Disney's Land, popular historian Richard Snow bril...
14 Des 202051min
