E19: When failure is not an option

Update: 2024-08-13

Description

Does your summer roadtrip across America include Saturn V Rockets, self-driving cars, dinosaur bones, and maybe Kittyhawk? Well, then you might be Oz and family! Charlie and Oz catch up on Oz's grand tour of America's inspiring hubs of ambition and technology, with plenty of detouring into the wonderful book genre of video game memoirs.

Shownotes

[book] Failure Is Not An Option - Gene Kranz
[book] Skunkworks - Ben Rich
[book] The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
[book] Masters of Doom - David Kushner
[documentary] Indie Game the Movie
[book] Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
[book] The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
[book] Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
[song] "This song wrote itself" - Charlie's song about self-driving cars, performed in a self-driving car
Hack Club's "Blot" pen plotter
Hack Club

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E19: When failure is not an option

Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova

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E19: When failure is not an option

Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova

E19: When failure is not an option