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Paul Graham's Essays Part II
- ▶ 46:14 David Senra What did Thomas Edison say about it?
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 1:20:39 David Senra What did Thomas Edison say about it?
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 53:57 David Senra What did Thomas Edison say about it?
Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
- ▶ 31:54 David Senra What did Thomas Edison say about it?
The Biography of Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 56:40 David Senra What did Thomas Edison say about it?
The Biography of Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
- ▶ 4:44 David Senra It says, Bush came from an American line of can-do engineers and tinkerers, a line beginning with Franklin and including Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and the Wright brothers.
The Autobiography of Vannevar Bush
- ▶ 47:46 David Senra He goes and talks about Thomas Edison, but he makes the point, like, you may have one individual that we know.
The Biography of John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
- ▶ 26:19 David Senra This is important because we, we talked about this recently where I think it was last week in the Edison, uh, number two, 67 in the Edison biography and number two, 58, which was about Jay gold.
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra There were other notable American inventors in his time, but they were more usually lonely, troubled souls, and his personality outshone theirs. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:04 David Senra This one trait is probably what I admire about Thomas Edison the most. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:13 David Senra He's not, people, like, he can't even last in school, so he gets in so much trouble that he has to be homeschooled, but his mom does something that's so smart and intelligent here, and 30 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:28 David Senra Uh, he was like on a train track, and Edison winds up grabbing him before he could be hit by a train, and in return, I think it's the station master's son, if I'm remembering this correctly, the station master's like, how can I ever repay… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:30 David Senra Uh, Edison noticed that the three-year-old son of the station master was playing, uh, right on the main track in the path of the car. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:29 David Senra So this is technically the fourth book on Edison that I've read. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:47 David Senra So at this point, Edison's 22, no money, but the, all these telegraph people, like, is very common, and all the engineers and everything, they kind of know each other, and so he goes and seeks out this other guy named Pope, and Pope is… 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:14 David Senra So now we fast forward a few years of the story, he's 26 years old, and he makes the mistake, and he corrects it later on when he opens up Menlo Park, but he's just like, he's like trying to invent, he's trying to be an inventor and a… 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:03 David Senra And Edison arrived at that just by following his natural bend. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:08 David Senra So Edison's gonna need a ton of money to build out the entire electrical system, right? 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:27 David Senra And so there's a small analogy between the conversation I'm having with my ten-year-old daughter that Edison is describing the book about, holy 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:35 David Senra I mentioned earlier, he's like, 18 times in the scene
Henry Ford's Autobiography
- ▶ 2:08 David Senra And it's, like, people like Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford is, is, uh, one of the people, which is, uh,
- ▶ 7:06 David Senra And so Henry Ford idolizes Thomas Edison. 6 times in the scene