About the Authors
Evgenia Eliseeva
Amy C. Edmondson
Nearing graduation from Harvard College three decades ago, Amy Edmondson took a leap of faith and wrote a letter to a personal hero, seeking advice about employment. To her surprise Buckminster Fuller wrote back. His letter arrived barely a week later with far more than advice. The legendary inventor, architect, and futurist offered her a job. Spending the next three years as Fuller’s “chief engineer,” trying to keep up with the peripatetic octogenarian while running calculations for new geodesic projects and producing old-fashioned engineering drawings with pencil and paper (just before personal ...
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