My Life and Work can feel surprisingly modern for a book written almost a century ago. Ford reads like an old-timey Travis Kalanick, invoking a lot of the same mythology as Silicon Valley startups—disruption, government red tape holding back progress, the greedy fat cats of organized labor, a pathological devotion to work. Ford’s biggest contribution to the history of industry was not the car, but the assembly line. He didn’t exactly invent it, but he was the first person to really demonstrate how insanely profitable standardized large-scale mass production could be. The assembly line was a
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