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Back to Search#167 Jackie Cochran (Aviation)
What I learned from reading Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography by Jackie Cochran.
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[4:37] At the time of her death on August 9, 1980, Jacqueline Coc…
5 years, 6 months ago
#166 Robert Noyce (Intel)
What I learned from reading The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley by Leslie Berlin.
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[0:01] Bob Noyce took…
5 years, 6 months ago
#165 William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age)
What I learned from reading Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel Shurkin.
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[1:19] Why woul…
5 years, 6 months ago
#164 Robert Goddard (Rocket Man)
What I learned from reading Rocket Man: Robert Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age by David A. Clary.
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[18:16] For even though I reasoned with m…
5 years, 7 months ago
#163 Alfred Nobel
What I learned from reading Alfred Nobel: A Biography by Kenne Fant.
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[16:24] The self-awareness that would become so characteristic of him was awa…
5 years, 7 months ago
#162 Chuck Yeager
What I learned from reading Yeager: An Autobiography by General Chuck Yeager.
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[10:14] I was a competitive kid. I always tried to do my best. I ne…
5 years, 7 months ago
#161 Dr. Seuss
What I learned from reading Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones.
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[6:32] Both his paren…
5 years, 7 months ago
#160 Peter Cundill
What I learned from reading Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher, and Philanthropist by Christopher Risso-Gi…
5 years, 8 months ago
#159 Andy Grove (Intel)
What I learned from reading Swimming Across by Andrew S. Grove.
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[0:01] I was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. By the time I was twenty, I had l…
5 years, 8 months ago
#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.
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[1:29] In D…
5 years, 8 months ago