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1. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

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3. The Critical Path: Inventing an Automobile and Reinventing a Corporation

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6. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

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11. On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work

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u/G33KMAST3R · 1 pointr/virtualreality

Thanks for your insight and wisdom, that is really what makes reddit great and internet forums in general. Someone like me being able to learn and discuss with someone like you. And hopefully the other way too, so that we all are enriched and the community benefits.

Kevin was around back in those years, with his nose to scene, but I wasn't. Do you feel there was anything good that came out of all that sega experimentation, even if it didn't directly benefit sega? Maybe it helped other companies, other tech in the industry, or just certain people who got good ideas or knowledge off of sega's mistakes? Was there anything positive that came of it in anyway?

I used to work at IBM, I was told to read some books, http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Magic-Politics-Personal-Computer/dp/0816013918 , and game over, http://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-Conquered-World-ebook/dp/B0060AY98I/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426550681&sr=1-7&keywords=game+over and many other books, to learn the history of companies from various perspectives, I always like to read and learn more, can reco any books on sega history?

Losing the money badly, do you think if they had say, a 2 billion dollar cushion like Oculus supposedly does today, to just test all kinds of hardwares, softwares, just burn through zuckers money at free abandon kinda, could they have kept squandering it to a point where they began to make money? If so, speculating of course, how much money do you think Sega should have needed back then to turn it around? Do you think that 2 billion oculus has today, can keep them competitive to the likes of steam, msft, apple, google, etc, is 2 billion all that much against such competition? Carmack had strongly suggested he wanted minecraft for oculus, well now MSFT bought that IP, steam has Half Life 3d more than likely, so just from a computer historian point of view, I am interested in learning all this history, even as it is happening, and peoples view points on it.

I never bought any of the systems you mentioned, the dreamcast was the only one that interested me. What do you think sega could have done to not get developers to hate them, and again your speculation is useful, because maybe the ideas you have could be used by people/companies today, to not make those mistakes again. Could sega have been more supportive of developers? I will not name names, but I would like you to know some general stories I am hearing right now, about various solutions of many things. The developers have hardware in their hands, some of these KEY AAA developer types. And they see problems in various softwares, so they want to fix these problems, well one company has closed source the softwares, and wont share the code, so the developers had to go through this one key programmer that is the code master at the company to suggest changes, (lets call him carmack, but that is just a placeholder name, in no way am I saying it is oculus or carmack in this thought experiment) here is the problem though today, this carmack code master decided he wanted to get paid a higher salary for all the slave code work that was being heaped upon him by all these new issues, and he went to his bosses, give me raise! They are saying FU, we can get a billion coders from india and china to replace you for pennies on the dollar!! So what I am hearing is he is getting mad, and he is one of these code masters that believe in job security, so he didn't document code very well, in fact he may have done lots of tricks in his code to even make his job more secure, I understand the code masters reasons for doing things, I understand the companies reasons for doing things (closed source wise), I understand the developers frustrations that they can't make progress because of these things, but the rest of us, the consumers, are all being hurt by this apex of scenarios. What is the solution from the macro scale, to best benefit the most number of people?

As to reputation, I agree it is very important, people want to feel they are being treated somewhat with freedom, respect, dignity, decency, like a human being and a gentleman. They dont like to feel they are being dictated to by a tyrant, controlled, lied to, backstabbed, used, threatened. Kevin has tried to advise time and time again to certain companies NOT to make the mistakes of the past, the mistakes of previous cycles of VR, the mistakes of a Sega, and he sees them being made again, and so few will listen at sage advice like his, and yours, to consider the past, learn from it, or be doomed to fail from repeating it. I have tried my best to impart to many companies, and even certain people in those companies, how IMPORTANT it is to listen at people like you, people like Kevin, for just reputation affects alone, and they seem to not wish to do so.

I have often said, what does it gain a Padawan Palmer to own the whole neuromancer metaverse, if you snowcrash your soul? I guess the big takeaway, if people don't like your reputation, they will just stop working with you, and that could hurt the whole industry, where we could instead have bridges built and cooperation that does well for the whole industry to benefit us all. Thanks for your time, I appreciate it greatly.

u/CactusJ · 2 pointsr/cars

I always link this book in threads like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Path-Automobile-Reinventing-Corporation/dp/0316967084

The story of how Chrysler's minivan team created an automobile that captured the 1995 Motor Trend Car of the Year and other major awards - and reinvented a perilously entrenched corporation in the process - is as dramatic and inspiring a story as any in business today. Brock Yates, one of the most respected writers in the auto world, was given unprecedented access to Chrysler - every planning session, presentation, budget review, test drive, assembly line start-up, and marketing launch. The result is a book that unveils the mysteries of modern car-making, revealing how cars are shaped through countless interlinked decisions ranging from size and power to door configurations, color selections, and innumerable other interconnected details. It also captures the complex process by which the thousands of separate pieces that make up a car are designed, tested, manufactured, and marshaled into place at the exact moment they are needed. For any reader who cares about cars, this is the most intriguing look inside the mysteries of their creation ever written. At the same time, The Critical Path recounts an extraordinary drama of all-too-human managers attempting to make something new, in a new way, inside a corporate culture that resists them at every turn. The story of how Chrysler's minivan platform team kept their commitment to quality, schedule, and budget - with a $3 billion investment and the company's fate palpably in the balance - is as encouraging a tale as has emerged from American business in years. The unprecedented triumph and Chrysler's resultant comeback is a lesson in successful management that will be savored by any reader interested in how great companies make breakthroughproducts.

u/theholyraptor · 3 pointsr/AskEngineers

Further reading/research: (Not all of which I've gotten to read yet. Some of which may be quite tangentially relevant to the discussion at hand along with the books and sites I mentioned above. Consider this more a list of books pertaining to the history of technology, machining, metrology, some general science and good engineering texts.)

Dan Gelbart's Youtube Channel

Engineerguy's Youtube Channel

Nick Mueller's Youtube Channel

mrpete222/tubalcain's youtube channel

Tom Lipton (oxtools) Youtube Channel

Suburban Tool's Youtube Channel

NYCNC's Youtube Channel

Computer History Museum's Youtube Channel

History of Machine Tools, 1700-1910 by Steeds

Studies in the History of Machine Tools by Woodbury

A History of Machine Tools by Bradley

Tools for the Job: A History of Machine Tools to 1950 by The Science Museum

A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume

Tools and Machines by Barnard

The Testing of Machine Tools by Burley

Modern machine shop tools, their construction, operation and manipulation, including both hand and machine tools: a book of practical instruction by Humphrey & Dervoort

Machine-Shop Tools and Methods by Leonard

A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement by Whitelaw

Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications by Yoshizawa

Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon by Gray

Machine Shop Training Course Vol 1 & 2 by Jones

A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982

Numerical Control: Making a New Technology by Reintjes

History of Strength of Materials by Timoshenko

Rust: The Longest War by Waldman

The Companion Reference Book on Dial and Test Indicators: Based on our popular website www.longislandindicator.com by Meyer

Optical Shop Testing by Malacara

Lost Moon: The Preilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Lovell and Kruger

Kelly: More Than My Share of It All by Johnson & Smith

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Rich & Janos

Unwritten Laws of Engineering by King

Advanced Machine Work by Smith

Accurate Tool Work by Goodrich

Optical Tooling, for Precise Manufacture and Alignment by Kissam

The Martian: A Novel by Weir

Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Young Budynas & Sadegh

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by Ashby

Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer by Shute

Cosmos by Sagan

Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook by Smith Carol Smith wrote a number of other great books such as Engineer to Win.

Tool & Cutter Sharpening by Hall

Handbook of Machine Tool Analysis by Marinescu, Ispas & Boboc

The Intel Trinity by Malone

Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Thompson

A Handbook on Tool Room Grinding

Tolerance Design: A Handbook for Developing Optimal Specifications by Creveling

Inspection and Gaging by Kennedy

Precision Engineering by Evans

Procedures in Experimental Physics by Strong

Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes or How They Did it in the 1870's by Dick

Flextures: Elements of Elastic Mechanisms by Smith

Precision Engineering by Venkatesh & Izman

Metal Cutting Theory and Practice by Stephenson & Agapiou

American Lathe Builders, 1810-1910 by Cope As mentioned in the above post, Kennth Cope did a series of books on early machine tool builders. This is one of them.

Shop Theory by Henry Ford Trade Shop

Learning the lost Art of Hand Scraping: From Eight Classic Machine Shop Textbooks A small collection of articles combined in one small book. Lindsay Publications was a smallish company that would collect, reprint or combine public domain source material related to machining and sell them at reasonable prices. They retired a few years ago and sold what rights and materials they had to another company.

How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet by Bryant & Sangwin

Machining & CNC Technology by Fitzpatrick

CNC Programming Handbook by Smid

Machine Shop Practice Vol 1 & 2 by Moltrecht

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles A fantastic book with tons of free online material, labs, and courses built around it. This book could take a 6th grader interested in learning, and teach them the fundamentals from scratch to design a basic computer processor and programming a simple OS etc.

Bosch Automotive Handbook by Bosch

Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots by Biagiotti & Melchiorri

The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals by Zhu, Zienkiewicz and Taylor

Practical Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines by Brown & Sharpe

Grinding Technology by Krar & Oswold

Principles of Precision Engineering by Nakazawa & Takeguchi

Foundations of Ultra-Precision Mechanism Design by Smith

I.C.S. Reference Library, Volume 50: Working Chilled Iron, Planer Work, Shaper and Slotter Work, Drilling and Boring, Milling-Machine Work, Gear Calculations, Gear Cutting

I. C. S. Reference Library, Volume 51: Grinding, Bench, Vise, and Floor Work, Erecting, Shop Hints, Toolmaking, Gauges and Gauge Making, Dies and Die Making, Jigs and Jig Making
and many more ICS books on various engineering, technical and non-technical topics.

American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book of Machine-Shop and Drawing-Room Data, Methods and Definitions, Seventh Edition by Colvin & Stanley

Modern Metal Cutting: A Practical Handbook by Sandvik

Mechanical Behavior of Materials by Dowling

Engineering Design by Dieter and Schmidt

[Creative Design of Products and Systems by Saeed]()

English and American Tool Builders by Roe

Machine Design by Norton

Control Systems by Nise

That doesn't include some random books I've found when traveling and visiting used book stores. :)

u/esquilaxxx · 10 pointsr/retrogaming

Great read! I found the focus on marketing really interesting. People always discuss the technical aspects of the systems, so I really enjoyed the look at how the Genesis was marketed in order to give the technically superior SNES a run for its money. I don't think we'll ever see rivalry in consoles like that again.

Not to say it's a perfect book by any means. I was pretty annoyed that Alex Kidd was dismissed as a "disappointing ripoff" of Mario, when I believe he had a few solid games.

If you're a Sega fan, I also enjoyed Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA.

u/Aaod · 1 pointr/NoShitSherlock

From what I remember of the book on it I read they saw it as both economic as well as military related but it was easier to push it from the military angle. The roads before the interstate highway stuff were atrocious especially for say bringing food to market which lead to issues.

https://www.amazon.com/Divided-Highways-Building-Interstate-Transforming/dp/0801478227

If anyone is interested since it is a pretty good book if you are interested in infrastructure, society building, or urban development.

u/IndividualDonut · 2 pointsr/Gifts

Here are the ideas I could think of:

  1. Harley Davidson Gift; Like a Coffee Table Book ( https://www.amazon.com/100-Years-Harley-Davidson-Willie/dp/0821228196 ), maybe some nice HD-Keychains (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_25?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=harley+davidson+key+chain+gifts&sprefix=harley+davidson+gifts+key%2Caps%2C181&crid=SIS8J4QDX87F&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aharley+davidson+key+chain+gifts ), Check out Etsy as well...lots of ides there too.

  2. Create a Ride! Include a map with the details noted (Points of interest, Sight Seeing Stops, and Gas Stations and Stops for Food), And Include a Gas Card and A Gift Card for Lunch or Ice Cream somewhere along the ride. *I know you said that they wouldn't like home made thing...but this is Gift Cards with a Plan. It would defiantly take some effort on your part.

    That's all I got....Maybe if there are other people in the family, they might be able to give ideas of other things that the couple like besides Harley Davidson...Because sometimes people like to do something but they don't want their entire life to become that one thing. But if they really love everything Harley...then there are a lot of home decor things...Dish Towels, Welcome, Rugs, Key Hooks, Wall Art, Sculptures, Wood Carvings, Etched Glassware.
u/LTmad · 3 pointsr/todayilearned

I second his recommendation. It's a great book and a really interesting read. I've been thinking about giving it another read recently.

This is the book.

u/bassplayingmonkey · 1 pointr/dreamcast

If you want a full history of Sega, this book is amazing:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Service-Games-Rise-Fall-Enhanced/dp/1494288354

So much detail on how Sega started, the specs of their consoles, the literal rise and fall of the company. Really good book!

u/uncle_shaky · 1 pointr/pics

You might find this interesting also. Actually more about the stealth program IIRC but a great read nonetheless.

u/eharrington1 · 1 pointr/Futurology

Pro renewable energy here: Renewables HAVE made the grid unreliable. The antiqued grid requires electric load balancing to operate. Meaning, that you have to put as much power into the grid as is currently needed or it can overload. Too little power and you have blackouts.
Before renewable energy was commonly used our grid was charged with a steady, predictable load of electricity coming from various power plants around the country. At 5pm when people would leave work and go home to fire up their Air conditioners, TVs, lights and oven to cook dinner, the power plants could steadily increase electricity output to meet the demand with supply and not have to worry about blackouts or overloads.

Now imagine a nice day where all the solar panels are soaking up sunlight and converting it to electricity. Wind turbines on the breezy West Coast are lazily spinning, also adding electricity to the grid. There is also a handful of power plants supplying electricity to top off our power needs... then with not much notice the skies clear, and on the west coast a big steady wind starts hitting the shores and working its way over the hills and to the mountains. Solar output is instantly doubled, those lazily spinning wind turbines start chugging, and tons of electricity hits the grid at the same time.
The spiking excess electricity is now risking overloading the grid. Too much electricity shoots through transmission lines somewhere which causes them to trip like circuit breaker. Now the same amount of electricity is still coarsening through the grid, and with a line that shut off, a million homes are now in the dark. The electricity those homes were just using is now in the grid because there’s nowhere for it to go. More transmission lines are overloaded and a chain reaction of tripped transmission lines and blackouts happen.
The unpredictability of renewable energy is a big strain on our archaic grid. It wasn’t designed for that type of use.

Source: This book

https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Fraying-Between-Americans-Energy/dp/B01I5SY176

u/idownvoteallposts · 2 pointsr/SEGAGENESIS

http://www.amazon.com/Service-Games-Rise-Enhanced-Edition/dp/1494288354

I just started Service Games. So far it's pretty good.

u/DarkerThanBlue · 2 pointsr/MilitaryPorn

We're also still flying the U-2 which was first flown in 1955 (3 years later than the first flight of the B-52). I'm reading a book about Skunk Works now and it's been one of the most rewarding reads as a civilian aviation enthusiast.

u/Whoknewituk · 1 pointr/Documentaries

This is an awesome delve into Sega's history including the Dreamcast. Highly recommended.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1494288354/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_iMnjDb0RWWK22

u/orinoco72905 · 1 pointr/explainlikeimfive

> Surprising to me because growing up in the 80's Chrysler was always perceived as the ones lacking serious quality control.

The minivan changed a lot of that, this is a really good read if you can get it cheap from one of the used sellers: http://www.amazon.com/The-Critical-Path-Reinventing-Corporation/dp/0316967084

u/rbdllama · 3 pointsr/mildlyinteresting

You and I both, cheers. - Cockpit walkthrough by an SRO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9UwKQKE3A

Highly recommended book about the skunkworks https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed-ebook/dp/B00A2DIW3C

u/mindwall · 5 pointsr/space

The story of The Skunk Works is a great book if you are looking to read similar stories.

Edit: a word

u/snailshoe · 1 pointr/dreamcast

It was dead before they were even around. The Dreamcast was doing pretty well in the US, but sold poorly in Japan as consumers waited for the PS2. And when it did poorly in Japan, SoJ basically killed it and didn’t support SoA.

While there was an overlap in time between the DC and the PS2, it’s fate was sealed by the time the PS2 launched.

This is a great account of the history of Sega: Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA: Enhanced Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1494288354/

u/ComputerSavvy · 10 pointsr/news

As a manufacturer of Jack boots, I especially support their decision to kick in open doors, kick holes in the walls and generally trample and break your possessions with our patented Waffen Stomper tread, Krupp steel toed design and re-enforced heel.

Remember folks, these Jack boots were made for stompin' on your rights!

u/howdoiland · 11 pointsr/hoggit

I highly recommend reading this book on the Skunk Works. It goes really in depth into how the F117, U2, and SR-71/A-12 programs came about. There are a few short sections in it by people associated with the skunk works, and IIRC Dyson wrote one.

https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed-ebook/dp/B00A2DIW3C

u/kickstand · 3 pointsr/whiskey

Wikimedia Commons has a few, not a lot:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Whisky_advertisements

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:George_Dickel_Cascade_Whisky_advertisements

Thanks to Prohibition, you won't find any whiskey ads in the US between 1920 and 1933. Before Prohibition, my sense is that a lot of liquor was sold locally, and maybe wouldn't advertise a lot.

There might have been legal restrictions on whiskey advertising (not sure).

Not ads, but this book has a ton of whiskey labels:

https://www.amazon.com/Art-American-Whiskey-History-Nations-ebook/dp/B00N6PFESY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497978669&sr=8-1&keywords=whiskey+advertisements

u/BirdsGetTheGirls · 2 pointsr/MilitaryGfys

Probably less safe to fly at a lower altitude over the USSR with a proper landing system than the method they ended up with.

If you want to read more about the programs skunk works did, this was a fun read.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A2DIW3C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

u/The_Greetest · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

I agree that quickly probably isn't a good word for it, but I did find some other results while googling talking about plumbers cleaning clogs and finding a lot of egg shell bits. I suppose it would partially depend on what else you put down the pipes.

I recently read this book about city infrastructure and there was a bit about garbage disposals and how they cause problems for sewer systems, which aren't designed for all the things people put in disposals that they would otherwise never flush. I guess it depends on how good your disposal is and how finely it can actually get stuff, but the engineer quoted in the book was not a fan of them. My new apartment has one, which is totally new to me, so I'm trying to learn this stuff too and don't really put anything in it besides very small food scraps that rinse off a plate after scraping bigger stuff into the trash (my new place doesn't have compost, booo).

u/dwelm_ · 1 pointr/bassnectar

> skunkworks

Ben Rich

u/ptowner7711 · 1 pointr/todayilearned

Actually just bought a book on Sega. It talks about all this and more indepth. Not incredibly well-written, but informative and very interesting look at Sega as a company and the console war between the Genesis and SNES.

http://www.amazon.com/Service-Games-Rise-Fall-Enhanced/dp/1494288354/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412868090&sr=1-1&keywords=service+games

u/ElricCrafter · 14 pointsr/AskHistorians

I don't have time right now to write a post, but this is a good book about Soviet car industry: Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile by Lewis H. Siegelbaum

To be short - lack of experience, technology, control and car industry for a long time wasn't a priority, because an idea of personal cars was "capitalistic".

u/cunnilinguslover · 1 pointr/HistoryPorn

There's some info in Ben Rich's biography Skunk Works. It was very highly classified and considered too dangerous for CIA or other US pilots to undertake. Because of these shootdowns they developed the D-21 drone to continue overflights.

u/corsec202 · 4 pointsr/wallstreetbets

We'll just ignore the fact that Toyota Production System's Kaizen grew to upend the entire auto industry, basically ensuring that Toyota rose to global dominance. TPS is the underpinning of all Lean manufacturing, which Tesla sucks at.

The guy you'd want to read the biography about is Kiichiro Toyoda. Here's a glossy biography. And here. And here are books on their management principles

This just all happened 40-50 years ago before internet fanboys.

What an idiot.