“How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution” Walter Isaacson’s journey over the past few years adopted a particular theme: He wrote biographies of famous inventors and in the result – he learned a lot about how innovation happens. He started with Benjamin Franklin, later continued on with Einstein, Steve Jobs,Continue reading “Book: Innovators by Walter Isaacson”
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci has an Uberman fame. He painted the most acclaimed painting in history, designed war machines, perfect cities, airplanes, submarines and bridges. He discovered how human aortic valve really worked, authored one of the best medical illustrations in history, fathered modern map making… The list goes on and introducing him is not reallyContinue reading “Leonardo Da Vinci”
Book: Benjamin Franklin, An American Life
Benjamin Franklin is certainly one of those “Larger than Life” personas. One of the founding fathers whose face is forever immortalized in a $100 bill. Apart from the United States, he is also a first founding father of self-improvement. His “moral improvement project” was well publicized then and now and his peers were quite impressedContinue reading “Book: Benjamin Franklin, An American Life”