Jimmy Soni
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The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digital pioneer. He constructed a fleet of customized unicycles and a flamethrowing trumpet, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots. He...
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Finalista de los PREMIOS SABRE al mejor libro de negocios.
Considerado el MEJOR LIBRO DE 2022 por THE NEW YORKER.
Bestseller nacional * Selección de los editores del New York Times * Financial Times: "Libros para leer en 2022"
A través de cientos de entrevistas y acceso a material nunca antes compartido, Jimmy Soni nos relata la historia de los primeros empleados de Paypal (Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel y Julie Anderson, entre otros),...
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Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as objectively as any physical object. His work gave mathematicians...
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Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past-and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on the battlefields of a world war, and ended when he took...
