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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Business

The story of Malcolm McLean and how a steel box collapsed the cost of shipping by orders of magnitude, rewiring global trade. A favorite case study for understanding how a single primitive can reshape an entire economy.

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Tobi Lütke

tim.blog · The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts Tobi Lutke

Cited on the Tim Ferriss Show as an example of finding biographies of key innovators to understand paradigm shifts; Lütke uses Malcolm McLean's shipping container as a model for how a single primitive can collapse costs.
Bill Gates

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Recommended on Gates Notes.
Jeff Dean

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“If you want a great book about the invention of the shipping container and what impacts it had across many industries, I highly recommend "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" by Marc Levinson.”

Recommended in a tweet on Dec 27, 2017, as a side note in a reply.