GOOG originated many good things big and small. Among the latter is a serious of interviews with book authors shared on YouTube. It seems to be an instructive glimpse into the culture of the company - how many employers out there have book clubs like that? On the flip side, the selection of authors is rather eclectic up to the point that there are fiction writers among them. Nevertheless, I found a couple of gems.
Steve Wozniak talks about his career at Apple as well as his life. I have never been crazy about AAPL be it Mac or iPod. So for most of my life my knowledge of Steve and his contribution to our industry was pretty limited. Boy I was wrong. His life story is fascinating and provides a good hard-core engineer role model. Listening to him I cannot help thinking that theirs was the age of titans.
The other discussion is about startups and the way they are started. Founders At Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days dispels some myths and tells less-known facts about well-known companies.
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