Citing Elon Musk as an example of a CEO who understands the balance between press and real work, Blank showed a video of a SpaceX rocket launch.

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Central to this is the work of Steve Blank.

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Blank, by the way, is a 200-page work of fiction containing only 20 evocative chapter titles and stunning pyrographic drawings by artist Susan White.

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She has a sense of humor about herself and her own cheery disposition, and she in fact knows Oscar is just a huckster of trickery but tells him point blank she has to make use of what she has to work with.

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In a thought-provoking presentation and then during s conversation with Reinhold Messner, Herr talked about the vision of bionics, the chance to create a blank palate for the body to both regain mobility and create ways for machines to work with our bodies.

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This loose-leaf book, the work of a retired estate planner, has fill-in-the-blank pages for everything from bank and stock accounts, to life insurance policies, to family medical history and funeral preferences.

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Blank got to Silicon Valley in 1978 via ESL, now a part of Northrop Grumman, which did defense electronics work.

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