Insights into Inventors
If you'd like to gain fascinating insights into famous inventors, and builders, I recommend Walter Isaacson's biographies.
If you'd like to gain fascinating insights into famous inventors and builders, I recommend Walter Isaacson's biographies. He expertly weaves narrative storytelling and deep research into inspirational page-turning books.
I recommend getting started with the following:
Podcast: Lex Fridman’s interview of Walter Isaacson. Listen to Isaacson tell fascinating stories about Steve Jobs, Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Ben Franklin, and Elon Musk. Marc Benioff, Founder/Chairman of Salesforce, called this interview, “One of the greatest lectures on innovation, entrepreneurship..I have ever heard.”
Book: The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna’s high school counselor told her that girls don’t become scientists. Doudna ends up winning the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (with Emmanuelle Charpentier) for her work on CRISPR, the easy-to-use human gene-editing tool. Read this exciting page-turner to learn about the implications of CRISPR for humanity. A 2021 Best Book by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post
Book: Steve Jobs. Isaacson conducted forty interviews with Steve Jobs over two years, and writes insightfully about Jobs’ life and creative process.
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