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Back to Search#431 How Henry Singleton Worked
What I learned from reading Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and The Man Who Created It by George Roberts and The Outsiders by Wil…
7 hours ago
#430 How to Write Ads That Sell
Claude Hopkins was the greatest copywriter of all time. His ideas were so valuable that when he wrote them down in a book the founder of his advertis…
1 week ago
#429 Bob Dylan's Autobiography
What I learned from rereading Bob Dylan's autobiography.
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2 weeks, 1 day ago
#428 How Claude Shannon Worked
Claude Shannon changed your life and you probably don't even know it. Claude is the father of information theory. He transformed information into bit…
3 weeks ago
#427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company
Raymond Plank founded Apache Corporation with just $250,000 in 1954. 50 years later his company was worth $50 billion. This episode examines the lif…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
#426 How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
Obsession is the engine of Nolan’s career. This episode examines Christopher Nolan’s life, working methods, and philosophy through The Nolan Variatio…
1 month ago
#425 The Merchant Bankers
This episode discusses Joseph Wechsberg’s 1966 book, The Merchant Bankers. Rather than recounting the histories of families like the Rothschilds, Ba…
1 month, 1 week ago
#424 Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
Episode 424
What I learned from reading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters (for the 3rd or 4th time)
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1 month, 2 weeks ago
#423 Soichiro Honda
What I learned from reading Honda: The Man and His Machines by Sol Sanders.
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#422 Joseph Pulitzer
What I learned from reading Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James McGrath Morris.
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2 months, 1 week ago