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Margaret O’Mara
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Bullitt Prof of American History @UW. Teacher, speaker, historian of Silicon Valley and author of THE CODE. https://margaretomara.com
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Looking forward to welcoming @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social to @uofwa.bsky.social this coming Tuesday 4/8 for a chat about his new book THE PACIFIC CIRCUIT. 4PM in HUB 340 - free and open to the public. Join us! artsci.washington.edu/news/events?...
Book cover for Alexis Madrigal, THE PACIFIC CIRCUIT (2025)
April 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Going to @ahahistorians.bsky.social Annual Meeting in SF next week? Join me and this all-star panel as we discuss all things Silicon Valley -- Thursday Jan 4, 3:30-5:00 PST. It's going to be a good one! More details here: www.historians.org/annual-meeting
Silicon Valley as Place, Phenomenon, and History Hilton Union Square, Continental Ballroom 6 Chair: Margaret O’Mara, University of Washington, Seattle Panel: Leslie Berlin, Steve Jobs Archive and Stanford University Jeannette Estruth, Bard College and the Harvard Berkman Klein Center Louis R. Hyman, Johns Hopkins University Fred Turner, Stanford University
December 29, 2023 at 6:17 PM
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Need to manifest Andrew Carnegie’s powers of delegation (fr David Nasaw’s biography, p 184)
W HEN A.B. FARQUHAR, a Pennsylvania businessman, mentioned to Carnegie that he was always sure to be in his office by "seven in the morning," Carnegie remarked laughingly: "You must be a lazy man if it takes you ten hours to do a day's work' "What I do,' he said, is to get good men, and I never give them orders. My directions seldom go beyond suggestions. Here in the morning I get reports from them. Within an hour I have disposed of everything, sent out all of my suggestions, the day's work is done, and I am ready to go out and enjoy myself." What was most remarkable about Carnegie's newfound success as a capitalist was how little it required of him. At each stage of his business career from bobbin boy to steelmaker, he had worked less and earned more.
December 3, 2023 at 1:52 AM