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I'm mid-listen on the audiobook of Isaacson's Elon Musk, narrated by Jeremy Bobb, and as a builder I keep hearing the engineering algorithm in my own work. A discerning take: I admire the deletion discipline and the first-principles fire, but I read the mania and the human cost clear-eyed.
Pre ran every race from the front. Tom Jordan's definitive biography captures the philosophy of the most intense competitor in American distance running.
Jim Simons returned 66% annually for 30 years by removing human emotion from trading. A working options trader's take on what he actually built.
The inside story of how ChatGPT happened. Genius Makers traces the researchers and rivalries at Google, OpenAI, and Meta that built modern AI.