#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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 202051min
#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
What I learned from reading The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. ---- [0:29] This is the story of those pioneers hackers, inve...
7 Dec 202058min
#156 Theodore Roosevelt
What I learned from reading Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt ---- [0:20] He was scratched, bruised...
30 Nov 202056min
#155 Jeff Bezos (Shareholder Letters and Speeches)
What I learned from reading Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson. ---- [2:38] The whole point of moving things forward is that you run into...
23 Nov 20201h 8min
#154 Charles Schulz (Charlie Brown)
What I learned from reading My Life with Charlie Brown by Charles Schulz. ---- [0:24] Beginning with the first strip published on October 2nd, 1950, until the last published on Sunday, February 13th,...
19 Nov 202052min
#153 Bill Bowerman (Nike)
What I learned from reading Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder by Kenny Moore. ---- [0:01] Take a primitive organism, any weak, pitiful organis...
12 Nov 20201h 18min
