reading list

• Skunkworks - Ben Rich
• The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
• Failure is Not an Option - Gene Kranz
• The Art of Doing Science & Engineering - Richard Hamming
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs & the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet - Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes

The treasures … left written in books, I turn over and peruse in company with my friends, and if we find anything good in them, we pick it out, and think it a great gain if we thus become useful to one another.

Socrates, in Xenophon’s Memorabilia