James Dyson
Forfatter af Against the Odds: An Autobiography
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- Fødselsdato
- 1947-05-02
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- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Cromer, Norfolk, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Gloucestershire, England, UK
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London, England, UK
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- 12
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- 257
- Popularitet
- #89,245
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- 4.1
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- 3
- ISBN
- 24
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- 1
This book made me realise that engineering and design need not be so mutually exclusive. Indeed, design in particular is far more broad than what my narrow view of it was. Then there's Dyson's trial and error 'Edisonian approach' of empirical learning - investigating from a hands on and first principles approach. A person could potentially learn all they needed to of an area of invention by tinkering around themselves rather than first studying heavy theory. This was pretty inspiring.
Dyson is quite critical of British industry throughout the book but I could see many of the criticisms relevant to most of the world. Among them paramount are: of businesses' financial fixation with 'short term-ism' rather than long term incremental advancement, and the problematic cultural enamourment with 'flashes of brilliance' rather than long steady diligent hard work or 'doggedness'. Considering it's been 25 years, I wonder how things have changed in his view.
I wanted to read this primarily to gain inspiration and understanding of entrepreneurship from a product, engineering and mechanical confluence. On this front, the book was outstanding. Definitely recommend to those who are interested in any of these areas. My next read Inshallah will be Mr Dyson's newly published Invention: A Life and I'm hopeful it'd be just as great.
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