📕 How Google Works by Eric Schmidt & Jon Rosenberg | A Book Review
I came to the decision to listen to “How Google Works” after finishing “Life After Google” at the beginning of the year. Though I am generally familiar with the origin story behind Google’s search engine - reading the short description on the BoT case, it seemed this book was an attempt to reveal a few inner workings of the company.
Sparing you the startup narrative of Google and the relationship developed with Eric Schmidt, this review will be just the handful of notes I took while listening.
Notes & Quotes
“Moonshot thinking”
Leveraging spare cheap processing to test out ideas and services
Employees: “hire them...for the things they don’t yet know” “judge candidates based on trajectory”
“Hiring brilliant generalists is far better for the company”
Learn to interview well
Raymond Wolfinger: “The plural of anecdote is data”
“Habitually over-communicate”
OHIO - Only Hold It Once
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi : flow