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teleforce 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things

Richard Hamming's book on AT&T Bell Labs R&D culture in inventing and solving many of the important problems [1].

Another is Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner on the early days of the Internet [2].

[1] The Art of Doing Science and Engineering:

https://press.stripe.com/the-art-of-doing-science-and-engine...

[2] Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet:

https://katiehafner.com/books-new/where-wizards-stay-up-late...

lnwlebjel 4 months ago [–]

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner is similarly great for some of the earlier/origin stories of Bell Labs.

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