Day: October 6, 2024
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Notes on “Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries” by Safi Bahcall
***Note: I fed my disorganized takeaways and random notes to an AI and had it organize my summary into the following: Loonshots is a book about how nurturing “crazy” ideas — the ones that seem destined to fail but can revolutionize industries or solve significant problems — is critical for progress in science, business, and…
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Notes on “Breakthrough – Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle” By Thea Cooper
Prologue “Ironically, a cure for diabetes couldn’t have been farther from the mind of the man who would be at the center of its discovery.” Chapter 6: Describing Fredrick Banting on his breakthrough discovery: “It would be one of many experiences in Banting’s life where he succeeded by persistence through repeated failures and against compelling…