Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Although he was largely an observer of the technical community that created Silicon Valley, his various ideas and crusades around the Whole Earth Catalog, which he created in the fall of 1968, foreshadow and resonate with the techno-utopian culture that the Valley spawned.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
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Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
Convenience for one group of users doesn’t mean convenience for all of them.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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When Hitler seized Poland in 1939, the region of western Ukraine known as Galicia that had until then been under Polish control suddenly fell to Moscow. Stalin and his Ukrainian Communist Party subordinate Nikita Khrushchev wasted no time in purging the region of anyone who might possibly fight the Soviet Union’s annexation: farmers who resisted co
... See moreAndy Greenberg • Sandworm
create an arbitrary 3-D world with Internet play. Carmack began the project as he often did, by reading as much research material as he could gather. He paid thousands of dollars for textbooks and papers, but everything was purely academic.
David Kushner • Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.
Roger Lowenstein • Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
David Teiger,