| list of (most of) the books mentioned in this thread so far. I tried reading every comment but used chatGPT instead. 1. The Big Rich - Texas oil boom. 2. Barbarians at the Gate - Private equity origins. 3. Masters of Doom - John Carmack and Id Software. 4. Einstein by Walter Isaacson - Einstein's discoveries. 5. Houdini!!! - The escape artist and magician. 6. The Double Helix - DNA discovery. 7. Stress Test by Tim Geithner - Financial crisis. 8. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - Concentration camp survival. 9. The Chariots of Apollo - NASA's space program. 10. Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift - Development of the moon buggy. 11. Apollo: The Race to the Moon by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox - Apollo missions. 12. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr - Food supply chains. 13. The Prize by Daniel Yergin - Oil industry evolution. 14. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson - Ambitious wreck divers. 15. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes - Manhattan Project. 16. American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin - Robert Oppenheimer. 17. Conquistador by Buddy Levy - Hernán Cortés and the Aztecs. 18. Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner - Water infrastructure in the American West. 19. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough - The invention of flight. 20. Walt Disney by Neal Gabler - Vision and innovation in entertainment. 21. Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant - Invention of radar. 22. Insisting on the Impossible - Edwin Land and instant photography. 23. The Logic of Failure - Understanding and avoiding failure. 24. The Big Short by Michael Lewis - 2008 financial crisis. 25. The Box by Marc Levinson - Shipping container revolution. 26. Latitude by Nicholas Crane - Cartography innovations. 27. When the Heavens Went on Sale by Ashlee Vance - Space startups. 28. The Founders by Jimmy Soni - PayPal's early days. 29. The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester - Precision engineering. 30. The Little Engine That Could - Children's classic. 31. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - Success mechanics. 32. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight - Founding of Nike. 33. Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin - Building LIGO. 34. Freedom’s Forge - WWII industry mobilization. 35. Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes - Electrification by Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse. 36. The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough - Panama Canal construction. 37. Annapurna by Maurice Herzog - Climbing a Himalayan peak. 38. Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder - Data General engineers. 39. Showstopper by G. Pascal Zachary - Development of Windows NT. 40. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - WWII survival. 41. The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder - Defining the meter. 42. The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll - Tracking a hacker. 43. The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel - Srinivasa Ramanujan. 44. The Power Broker by Robert Caro - Robert Moses and New York infrastructure. 45. How Big Things Get Done - Large-scale project execution. 46. Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik - Xerox PARC. 47. Built by Roma Agrawal - Civil engineering insights. 48. The Will to Keep Winning by Daigo Umehara - Competitive gaming. 49. Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold - Low-temperature physics. 50. Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins - Apollo 11. |
52. Mindstorms by Seymour Papert - Groundbreaking work on computers in education.
53. Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles - The Apollo Guidance Computer.
54. Build by Tony Fadell - Memoir and innovation lessons.
55. Fall of Carthage by Adrian Goldsworthy - Punic Wars and Carthage's fall.
56. Making PCR - The story of polymerase chain reaction development.
57. Moonwalking with Einstein - Memory training and championship.
58. The Rickover Effect by Theodore Rockwell - First nuclear-powered submarine.
59. The Idea Factory - Bell Labs and American innovation.
60. Hackers by Steven Levy - History of computer hackers.
61. Fire in the Valley - Personal computing revolution.
62. Monk in the Garden - Life of Gregor Mendel.
63. Leadership Moment - Lessons from leaders in crises.
64. The Man Who Discovered Quality - W. Edwards Deming and quality management.
65. Eccentric Orbits - Iridium satellite network's rescue.
66. The Road to Character - Human nature and moral development.
67. The Spy and the Traitor - Soviet spy Oleg Gordievsky's story.
68. Billion Dollar Spy - Cold War espionage.
69. Skunk Works - Lockheed's F-117 and SR-71 programs.
70. Working by Robert Caro - Insights into Caro's research.
71. The Wager by David Grann - 18th-century British maritime disaster.
72. Caro's LBJ Series - Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson.
73. The Prize by Daniel Yergin - Oil industry history.
74. The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf - Alexander von Humboldt's contributions.
75. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - Theranos scandal.
76. Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson - Memoir and business insights.
77. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz - Leadership lessons.
78. Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman - WeWork's rise and fall.
79. Tuxedo Park - Invention of radar during WWII.
80. Insisting on the Impossible - Edwin Land and instant photography.