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It was Brin’s mathematic calculations on those possible 500 million variables that identified the important pages.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Lightweight performance reviews,
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
proprietary technology an order of magnitude better than its nearest substitute.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Bill Thurston It’s not only math books. There are other books that no one ever reads. Have you ever read the user manual for your toaster?
David Bessis • Mathematica
Not trivial, however, is the principle that such mini-decisions be made consistently throughout.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
MAN AND MACHINE
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Georg Cantor, whose studies of infinite sets