Autonomy
by Lawrence Burns · first published 2018
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…the iPhone. Educated (2018) by Tara Westover is an amazing autobiography. Enlightenment Now (2018) by Steven Pinker is pretty good, even if he doesn't know that much about the actual enlightenment. Autonomy (2018) by Lawrence Burns about self-driving cars is well worth a read. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff is good about the very strange world inside the Trump administration.
on “Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?” ↗If you read through Autonomy by Lawrence Burns, the author states that Levandowski felt the project was losing focus & getting too bloated, and wanted to disrupt it with a Team Macintosh style parallel project that he would head.…
on “Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets” ↗