Founders

What I learned from reading Honda: The Man and His Machines by Sol Sanders.

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What I learned from reading Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James McGrath Morris.

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What I learned from reading Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products by  Leander Kahney.

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What I learned from reading Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary by Geoffrey Cain.

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Kelly Johnson’s “14 Points” read like a SpaceX operations manual — 60 years before SpaceX was founded. Kelly Johnson created Skunk Works, which he defined as: “A concentration of a few good people solving problems far in advance—and at a fraction of the cost—of other groups by applying the simplest, most straightforward methods possible to develop and produce new projects. All it is really is the application of common sense to some pretty tough problems.”

Kelly Johnson was a great engineer and system builder with genius for organizational design. His autobiography which he wrote when he was 75 years old is full of hard-earned wisdom from his 44 year career.

This episode is what I learned from reading Kelly: More Than My Share of it All by Kelly Johnson.

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