What Makes it GoJoe Kaufman
What Makes it Go
by Joe Kaufman · first published 1972
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My parents got me my most influential book when I was 4. "What Makes It Go? What Makes It Work? What Makes It Fly? What Makes It Float?" by Joe Kaufman. It taught me that everything has causal inner mechanisms. From then on, I had xray vision and could imagine the inner mechanisms…
on “What makes a genius?” ↗As a child I had the book "What makes it go?" which was full of illustrations of how machines work: https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Go-Joe-Kaufman/dp/06003926...
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