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#12 Elon Musk & How Tesla Will Change The World
20 augustus 2017 · 41 min
What I learned by reading How Tesla Will Change The World by Tim Urban
Kindle version: The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why. Lees meer----
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#11 The Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce
13 augustus 2017 · 45 min
What I learned from reading The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban
Read The Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce on WaitButWhy.
Quotes from this episode:
Which leaves only two options: create or copy
Conventional wisdom: If something is both a good idea and possible, it's already been done.
I'm fascinated by those rare people in history who managed to dramatically change the world during their short time here, and I've always liked to study those people and read their biographies. Those people know something the rest of us don't and we can learn something valuable from them.
Musk calls this reasoning from first principles. One of the most important parts of this podcast.
Conventional wisdom screamed at the top of its lungs for him to stop.
Your entire life runs on the software in your head. Why wouldn't you obsess over optimizing it?
We mistake the chef's originality for brilliant ingenuity.
The reason these outrageously smart people are so humble about what they know is that they are aware that unjustified certainty is the bane of understanding and the death of effective reasoning.
Conventional wisdom worships the status quo and always assumes that everything is the way it is for a good reason. And history is one long record of status quo dogma being proven wrong again and again, every time some chef comes around and changes things. Lees meer----
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth
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#10 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
27 juli 2017 · 1 uur 5 min
What I learned from reading Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight.
The best teacher I ever had, one of the finest men I ever knew, spoke of the Oregon Trail often. It’s our birthright, he’d growl. Our character, our fate—our DNA. “The cowards never started, the weak died along the way—that leaves us.” [0:35]
Some outsized sense of possibility mixed with a diminished capacity for pessimism. [1:03]
I found it difficult to say what or who exactly I was, or might become. Like all my friends I wanted to be successful. I didn’t know what that meant. [2:11]
Deep down I was searching for something else, something more. I had an aching sense that our time is short, shorter than we ever know. And I wanted mine to be meaningful. And purposeful. And creative. And important. Above all . . .different. [2:35]
I asked myself: What if there were a way, without being an athlete, to feel what athletes feel? To play all the time, instead of working? Or to enjoy work so much that it becomes essentially the same thing? [4:23]
The only answer was to find some prodigious, improbable dream that seemed worthy, that seemed fun, that seemed like a good fit, and chase it with a single-minded dedication and purpose. [4:47]
Maybe my Crazy Idea just might . . . work? Maybe. No, no, I thought. It will work. By God, I’ll make it work. No maybes about it. [5:29]
So much about those days has vanished. Faces, numbers, decisions that once seemed pressing and irrevocable, they’re all gone. [6:39]
What remains is this one comforting certainty, this one anchoring truth that will never go away. At 24 I did have a Crazy Idea, and somehow, despite being dizzy with existential angst, and fears about the future, and doubts about myself, as all young men and women in their mid-twenties are, I did decide that the world is made up of crazy ideas. History is one long processional of crazy ideas. The things I loved most — books, sports, democracy, free enterprise — started as crazy ideas. [7:03]
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#9 I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
10 juli 2017 · 1 uur 11 min
What I learned from reading I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford by Richard Snow. Lees meer
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth
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#8 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
20 juni 2017 · 1 uur 1 min
What I learned from reading The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company by Michael Malone. Lees meer
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth
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#7 Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
27 mei 2017 · 1 uur 3 min
What I learned from reading Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc. Lees meer
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth
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#6 Sam Walton
14 mei 2017 · 1 uur 4 min
What I learned from reading Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton. Lees meer
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth
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#5 Steve Jobs
30 april 2017 · 1 uur 36 min
What I learned from reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Lees meer
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth
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#4 The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
19 april 2017 · 57 min
What I learned from reading The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw Lees meer
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth
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#3 The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World
24 maart 2017 · 1 uur 27 min
What I learned from reading The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented The Modern World by Randall Stross
Edison starts his first business at 12 years old (11:00)
Edison's discipline (20:00)
Edison's rivalry with Alexander Graham Bell (38:00)
Edison's friendship with Henry Ford (1:00:00)
Edison's stoic nature (1:15:00)
The death of Thomas Edison (1:21:00) Lees meer----
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth
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#2 Walt Disney
10 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 18 min
What I learned from reading Walt Disney based on the book Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler. Lees meer
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“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth
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#1 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, & the Quest for a Fantastic Future
19 september 2016 · 58 min
What I learned from reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
The conventional wisdom of the time said to take a deep breath and wait for the next big thing to arrive in due course. Musk rejected that logic by throwing $100 million into SpaceX, $70 million into Tesla, and $10 million into SolarCity. Short of building an actual money crushing machine, Musk could not have picked a faster way to destroy his fortune. He became a one-man-ultra-risk taking venture capital shop and doubled down on making super-complex physical goods in two of the most expensive places in the world, Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. [2:13]
What Musk has developed that so many of the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley lack is a meaningful worldview. He’s the possessed genius on the grandest quest anyone has ever concocted. He’s less a CEO chasing riches than a general marshaling troops to secure victory. [9:17]
The life that Musk has created to manage all of these endeavors is preposterous. [9:53]
He felt as if the public had lost some of its ambition and hope for the future. [14:34]
His fears that mankind had lost much of its will to push the boundaries were reinforced one day when Musk went to the NASA website. He expected to find a detailed plan for exploring Mars and instead found bupkis. [14:58]
The men were heading to Russia at the height of its freewheeling post-Soviet days when rich guys could apparently buy space missiles on the open market. [24:32]
Musk wheeled around and flashed a spreadsheet he’d created. “Hey guys, I think we can build this rocket ourselves.” [27:53]
Some of these people had spent years on the island going through one of the most surreal engineering exercises in human history. They had been separated from their families, assaulted by the heat, and exiled on their tiny launchpad outpost— sometimes without much food — for days on end as they waited for the launch windows to open and dealt with the aborts that followed. So m… Lees meer