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#24 No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet

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How I Built This

Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari and also founded Chuck E. Cheese, just did an episode on him. In the two books I read and covered on this podcast about Steve Jobs, they mentioned that Jobs used to work for Nolan at Atari. The book doesn't go in chronological order, sometimes it goes back and forth. Oftentimes, ideas made their way into his dreams, jolting him out of sleep at odd hours. Lewin was known to fire off lengthy, thoughtful email missives in the middle of the night. It's like working on a crossword puzzle. You get stuck and you put it away then suddenly bang, you have the answer.

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