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David Sedaris's audiobooks have joined the rotation with Agatha Christie mysteries as our go to car trip books. They're excellent, and contain bite sized anecdotes that fit well into a car trip across town as well as a longer ride into the mountains.

The section on whether an expert specialist can move from one R&D company to a competitor without giving away trade secrets has so much relevance today.

In his time, Brooks referenced a latex specialist building spacesuits trying to change jobs, but blocked by an injunction. Today, you could conceive of something like this happening with Machine Learning PhDs switching jobs at tech companies.

Talking about income tax -- what a shock it was to high earners across the world, how some countries tried it off and on again, and how verification of income was a tough problem initially, to the point where the US government at one point asked everyone to estimate the annual worth of 10 of their neighbors...