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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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An inside history of Xerox PARC, the lab that invented the GUI, the laser printer, Ethernet, and most of personal computing, and the corporate failure to commercialize any of it. Altman recommended it on his Twitter AMA reading list for founders.
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Listed in Altman's 2015 Twitter AMA recommendations for founders. The Xerox PARC story is a recurring reference point for him on building research labs that ship.
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#31 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
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Flagged blue on Collison's bookshelf — substantially above average.
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3 SOURCEs- goodreads.com profile
- hackernewsbooks.com · Top Books on Hacker News reading list
- Patrick Collison's Bookshelf reading list
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