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The Idea Factory
History
Gertner's history of Bell Labs — the transistor, the laser, information theory, Unix — and the management culture that produced them. Required reading for anyone who has ever said the words 'research lab'.
Endorsed By
3 People-
Mark Zuckerberg
Twenty-first A Year of Books pick, announced November 9, 2015.
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Andrej Karpathy
“A fascinating book for anyone interested in the process of innovation.”
Information theory / innovation stack — Bell Labs as the institution that produced Shannon's information theory; Karpathy's model for how transformative science happens.
- Patrick Collison