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I just finished reading Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Issacson and it was so good that i had to "reset" my HN password just to make this comment.
How good is it compared to Isaacson's Jobs or Einstein biographies?
Hands down one of the most inspiring and motivating biographies I've read.
The Fish Who Ate The Whale. If you think Bezos and Zuckerberg are cunning & determined entrepreneurs Sam the Banana Man will blow your mind. To give you a taste: His opponents (a large, well-funded and established competitor) stymied his attempt to get permission to build a bridge across a river. Undeterred, Sam built two piers. One from each side of the river. They told him he couldn’t build a bridge. No one ever to…
http://meganmarshallauthor.com/books_peabodysisters.shtml - since I live in Boston area, especially interesting to hearabout both how the area has changed culturally and physically, and to learn about people whose homes I have visited on tours of historic homes. https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Yukichi-Fukuzawa/dp/023... - great perspective on a period of massive intellectual/cutural/political change in Japan htt…
Any other recommendation of Japan's books in English.
Also Taiko by the same author is a fictionalized version of the 3 kingdoms period, told from an interesting perspective.
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How good is it compared to Isaacson's Jobs or Einstein biographies?
I unfortunately haven't read either or those. Jobs biography became too famous that I didn't feel like reading it (^_^). I will pick Einstein at some point in the future. This was my first read from Issacson.