Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government
amazon.com
JEFF BEZOS Founder and CEO, Amazon; Owner, the Washington Post
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
West never passed up an opportunity to add flavor to the project. He helped to transform a dispute among engineers into a virtual War of the Roses. He created, as Rasala put it, a seemingly endless series of “brushfires,” and got his staff charged up about putting them out. He was always finding romance and excitement in the seemingly ordinary. He
... See moreTracy Kidder • The Soul of A New Machine
the journalistic errors examined in this book—the misreporting, fabrications, and distortions—were never the product of simple error. Nor were they solely the result of rogue reporters who took their journalistic fates into their own hands. Rather, they were the byproduct of a particular kind of system, a truth-producing machine that though built t
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Kelleher was a hero-worshiper and a reader of history and literature who could reel off couplets from Wordsworth, aphorisms from Clausewitz, and exchanges from Nixon’s 1950 debates with Helen Gahagan Douglas.
Thomas Petzinger Jr. • Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
To this day, the drawer in the mahogany table used by the Republican leadership has a jagged bullet hole in it.