Re:Books I’ve read
by AlbertCory on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:50PM
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For a deeper example of this boundary, read "Startup" by Jerry Kaplan: the story of GO Corp.
He has these "conversations" between people 35 years ago, with wildly unrealistic dialog that no human would ever speak. And yet this qualifies as "non-fiction"?
Having done this reconstruction myself, I can tell you that absolutely NO ONE remembers what they said 40 years ago. No one remembers when meetings happened or who was there.
Take, for example, the famous Steve Jobs visits to Xerox PARC. I wasn't there so I didn't include them. But a podcast host told me he's talked to three people who were, and they have three different stories.
There are, in fact, some writers who manage to bring history to life without inventing dialog and scenes that maybe never happened. I salute them.
He has these "conversations" between people 35 years ago, with wildly unrealistic dialog that no human would ever speak. And yet this qualifies as "non-fiction"?
Having done this reconstruction myself, I can tell you that absolutely NO ONE remembers what they said 40 years ago. No one remembers when meetings happened or who was there.
Take, for example, the famous Steve Jobs visits to Xerox PARC. I wasn't there so I didn't include them. But a podcast host told me he's talked to three people who were, and they have three different stories.
There are, in fact, some writers who manage to bring history to life without inventing dialog and scenes that maybe never happened. I salute them.