Casey Handmer, PhD Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Physicist, Immigrant, Pilot, Dad. Former Caltech, Hyperloop, NASA JPL. Founder @terraformindies. Build more solar!
Pieces of the Action
Vannevar BushCasey Handmer, PhDJust finished "pieces of the action", a memoir by Vannevar Bush. Equal parts curmudgeon and extremely thought provoking.
Hardcover, 2022
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard RhodesCasey Handmer, PhDI recently read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes, which makes several references to Fermi's 6" slide rule. I bought this one, and have been running various operations on it. https://t.co/RTJl0JYica
Paperback, 2012
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Red Plenty
Francis SpuffordCasey Handmer, PhD@Robotbeat @MasterTimBlais "Red Plenty" with Francis Spufford discusses the real Soviet effort to replace market price discovery with linear programming - which failed both technically and politically.
Paperback, 2012
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