{"id":3477,"date":"2019-04-18T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2019-04-18T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T20:30:16","slug":"on-thomas-edison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/on-thomas-edison\/","title":{"rendered":"On Thomas Edison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read <strong>&#8220;the wizard of Menlo Park, a life of Thomas Edison&#8221;<\/strong> recently. All this while I saw Edison as the guy who killed Tesla. I am not sure if that is true, but reading this book made me know a few other things about Edison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>His entrepreneurial journey begun in early age, printing newspaper in running train. <\/li><li>An outlier without any formal degree gifting so many innovations\/patents to the world.<\/li><li>His fake till making it attitude, belief in self, arrogance, and pride.<\/li><li>His generous offerings to journalists in the form of company equities. <\/li><li>His obsession with brand &#8220;Edison&#8221;<\/li><li>His notable other contributions besides light bulb.<\/li><li>His friendship with Ford and urge to ship electric cars.<\/li><li>His don&#8217;t give up and win at any cost attitude. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I am happy that I read about Edison, at least in the next coffee conversation I am not going to say: Edison killed Tesla. Lastly, our man Edison was deaf. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read &#8220;the wizard of Menlo Park, a life of Thomas Edison&#8221; recently. All this while I saw Edison as the guy who killed Tesla. I am not sure if that is true, but reading this book made me know a few other things about Edison. His entrepreneurial journey begun in early age, printing newspaper &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/on-thomas-edison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Thomas Edison&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,100],"tags":[594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}