Recommended by
- Larry Ellison — One of the books on Larry Ellison's nightstand, as recorded in Julian Guthrie's The Billionaire and the Mechanic. The Billionaire and the Mechanic (Founders episode #126) lists Fate Is the Hunter among the books on Ellison's nightstand during the dot-com collapse source ↗
Summary
Ernest K. Gann's memoir of his years as a commercial airline pilot in the 1940s, before modern aviation made flying routine. Each chapter recounts a specific flight and the lesson it taught — mechanical failures, weather emergencies, close calls, and fatal crashes — building into an unsentimental masterclass in decision-making under uncertainty where the margin between discipline and catastrophe is measured in seconds.