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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Otto added several refinements to make Lenoir’s design more efficient and set up a company to sell his new engine for use in factories. In the years that followed Otto further improved the design, in particular by having the piston compress the fuel-air mixture before ignition (the engine ran on a type of petroleum spirit known as ligroin), and by
... See moreTom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
In so cyclical an industry as aviation, in which tiny changes in interest rates and fuel prices and macroeconomic conditions have a huge effect on the bottom line, VEP gave Borman a stunning management advantage. It turned his employees, in essence, into Eastern’s bankers, enabling him to borrow tens of millions of dollars from them—unsecured, not
... See moreThomas Petzinger Jr. • Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Thus reassured of its generic quality,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture


One of the greatest programmers in history, who did indeed understand every component of the computer from the software down to the chip, Niklaus Wirth, wrote “the belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail
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