Grand ambition
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Tells the story of Doug Von Allmen's plan to build an extraordinary yacht and the way that the 2008 financial crisis threatened the project and the livelihood of the one thousand employees of the shipyard where it was built.
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I make note of the books I read in 1-2 sittings because I can't put them down. This year these were: Five Billion Years of Solitude - Lee Billings Ready Player One - Ernest Cline Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and the Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It - G. Bruce Knecht
on “Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2013?” ↗…development and launch of the segway "CODE NAME GINGER: The Story Behind Ginger and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World"[1]. It's in paperback as "Reinventing the Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition"[2]. It also has some interesting coverage of what happened inside the company during that time. [1] http://www.stevekemper.net/disc.htm [2] http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Wheel-Genius-Innovation-Am...
on “Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off the Grid” ↗