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About 3. One of the coolest attitudes I saw was from someone (autistic, but that doesn't matter) who approached every problem as something to love, to cherish, to appreciate. Now I'm reading a book about the early days in Bell labs. I feel through the pages how much fun they had with finding issues, finding things to improve, finding out the future. I think there's so much to gain if you can find a positive approach to problems. Also in real life!


That book sounds interesting! Could you share a link?


Maybe this one:

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory


Yes, this one!


Thanks!


Probably not the same book, but the guy who developed Hamming codes (his name was Hamming obviously) wrote a stupendous book that talks a lot about his time at Bell called The Art and Science of Doing Engineering


Well it looks like I've now got two "stupendous" books to read :-)




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